Monthly Archives: December 2020

Minuit Chretien et Joyeux Noël

Posted on December 25, 2020 by Pat Lang

  Merry Christmas to you, every one.  pat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7uiqRCW6I8&list=PL27FEC85CEED5C0BB&index=69&app=desktop

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Stolen, a holiday post by Fred

Posted on December 24, 2020 by Fred

You are probably thinking this is a post about the election, what with that "I voted" sticker in the photo. But if you take another look you'll see something you can really sink your fangs into. MMM mmmmm. Yummy. Speaking … Continue reading →

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“Bless you, you are a one horse pony.” or something …

Posted on December 23, 2020 by Pat Lang

Joe … Joe …  We hardly know yuh.   Joe's retort to Peter Duecy yesterday is a reprise of his campaign description of a woman in an audience as a "dog faced lying pony soldier."  Say what? I have known a … Continue reading →

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Giacomo Leopardi: Canti XIV Alla Luna

Posted on December 23, 2020 by Steven J. Willett

Translated by Steven Willett   O gracious moon, I remember now, at the year’s turning, how on this hill I came full of anguish to contemplate you: and you, suspended then over these woods as you are now, illumined everything. … Continue reading →

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Christmas in Pakistan (FB Ali)

Posted on December 22, 2020 by Pat Lang

Some pictures from a Karachi newspaper on a rally and procession on Karachi's main street — as part of the Xmas celebrations by the Christian community (in which many local Muslims join). There are more pictures in the paper (at … Continue reading →

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Disasters of War: A Modern Triptych

Posted on December 20, 2020 by Steven J. Willett

Steven Willett In Memory of Francisco Goya, Los desastres de la guerra     I. Habit Habit moves the lover’s hand, the torturer’s    instruments, the doctor’s knife; habit squeezes the trigger of the full stop and marches    armies … Continue reading →

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“Targets,” an old story by Jim Peak (Basilisk)

Posted on December 20, 2020 by Pat Lang

  Jim had been out shooting with a friend and wrote this.  pl   ————   The two men, heavy laden with the implements of destruction, scuffed through crunching autumn leaves. The scent of winter was somewhere near by. “I … Continue reading →

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Brooding in the Marble City beside the Great Swamp

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Pat Lang

The cognoscenti are whispering, whispering of a failure of will and steadiness in the SCOTUS in the matter of the Texas constitutional lawsuit against several states for a failure to provide equal rights to Texans and the citizens of six … Continue reading →

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RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP 17 DECEMBER 2020 by Patrick Armstrong

Posted on December 17, 2020 by Patrick Armstrong

PUTIN PRESS CONFERENCE. Here. COVID-19 a big theme – he lists what has been done – 277,000 beds, 40 purpose-built hospitals, over 500,000 medical staff deployed. ECONOMY. Numbers from Putin: GDP down 3.6%, industrial production down 3%, agricultural industry up … Continue reading →

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HARPER: DID MAXIMUM PRESSURE BOOST IRGC JUNTA?

Posted on December 17, 2020 by Harper

Since the Trump decision in May 2018 to withdraw the US from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and launch the "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran, internal developments in the Islamic Republic have benefitted one group in particular:  The … Continue reading →

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