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Rodney Clough
Rodney Clough

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10 hours ago

Age is Paper

Look around. America is aging. So are its governing institutions. Boomers read a lot. They love stuff in print. Books you can feel the weight of. Newspapers that crinkle to the touch. Information in front for all to see, not making your iPhone light up at 5:00am, but delivered to…

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Age is Paper
Age is Paper

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4 days ago

America in the Post-Trump Zeitgeist

Former Attorney General Bill Barr walks; former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson hides. The easy part was leaving; the hard part is surviving. Special “Independent” Counsel Robert Mueller never got his “Alexander Butterfield Moment.” Mueller’s investigative team’s findings regarding the illegality of Trump’s asking Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky to find…

Politics

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America in the Post-Trump Zeitgeist
America in the Post-Trump Zeitgeist
Politics

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Sep 23

The Sacking

It is not too early to contemplate Trump in the White House in January 2025. 2020 Election Deniers will be in charge of administering the 2024 election results process in 17 states; 8 are left to tip any outcome towards Trump. Perhaps more. (1) Contemplate this: that’s the Electoral College. …

Politics

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The Sacking
The Sacking
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Sep 19

The Girl Next Door

“Doppelgänger” by Naomi Klein at a glance. Like her native country, Canada, which didn’t pick to be a U.S. neighboring country, Naomi Klein didn’t pick her given name, ‘Naomi,’ nor its on-line replica. “It” picked her, which is not what the author, Naomi Klein, ever wanted: “In my defense, it…

Politics

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The Girl Next Door
The Girl Next Door
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Sep 9

Maia

The woman who survived my father I I only met Maia twice: once in Connecticut during an impromptu “family reunion.” And the second time before my father’s funeral in Florida where his ashes were to be interred next to his second wife, Alice. Maia lived in the same concrete block…

Family

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Maia
Maia
Family

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Sep 6

A Lifetime of Hurricanes

Hurricanes I have known and some I haven’t. In years past, knowledge of and the wherewithal to survive a hurricane were passed down from generation to generation. Each generation had its memorable hurricane, the one that ‘broke the records.’ For my father, age 24 at the time, it was the…

Environment

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A Lifetime of Hurricanes
A Lifetime of Hurricanes
Environment

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Sep 3

Disclose This

A quick study in moral negligence “Inadvertently…” -term repeated 12 times in Clarence Thomas’s disclosure of paid trips and vacations by Harlan Crow, Sept.1, 2023 Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court typically lecture their clerks on word choice when composing opinions on behalf of the Justices. So it is eyebrow…

Justice

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Disclose This
Disclose This
Justice

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Sep 1

Merry Mr. Meadows

Trump’s former Chief of Staff wants his trial to be whisked away to Georgia’s Eleventh Circuit August 29 “He must have cut a deal,” a friend said to me, today, thinking that former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows had been successful in moving his case to the northern Atlanta suburbs…

Georgia

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Merry Mr. Meadows
Merry Mr. Meadows
Georgia

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Aug 17

The Lady from Atlanta

DA Fani Willis plays the democracy card. Former Trump operative Mark Meadows doesn’t want his trial to be heard by an Atlanta jury. …

Politics

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The Lady from Atlanta
The Lady from Atlanta
Politics

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Aug 10

State of Repression

Normalcy, Division, Control August 9 Two news events of the past week bookend a sinister state of repression in America. For those of us who consider that “Trump is the tip of the iceberg,” read on. For those who do not, feel free to sliver back under your rock. The…

Politics

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State of Repression
State of Repression
Politics

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Rodney Clough

Rodney Clough

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Refuses to nap. Septuagenarian. Cliche’ raker. Writes weekly.

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