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Political Amusements, or Not!

Originally we wrote that these irregular musings aren’t easily described, then realized the high risk of inviting easy descriptions. Let us just note that so far, this grab bag has been totally inept at recruiting the influence of cascading conglomerates, whether owners or advertisers, and does not enjoy largess from being in the pocket of a political party’s well-heeled leadership. Corruption, influence peddling by the big money and engineered dysfunction are often unavoidable tangents. Such a broken system, who would bother, but for occasional glimmers of hope? A Hobson’s Choice now and then, perhaps a snipe hunt for Washington DC’s moral high ground.

This is not an open invite for PR companies pushing their clients’ brilliance, but for T-Boy readers and contributors who’d like to express a well-thought-out viewpoint on our interesting times. If you’d like to throw us a pontification for consideration, send it to Skip Kaltenheuser. Political topics relevant to travel are welcome, but as you can see from the past menu we’re very free-ranging…

[caption id="attachment_18418" align="aligncenter" width="850"]Bipartisanship, by Nancy Ohanian Bipartisanship, by Nancy Ohanian[/caption]

These money-back guarantee scribbles comprise a kitchen sink that keeps getting thrown about. Perhaps a topic or two might be of interest. Given the tangents, most include themes with an ever-green shelf-life. If nothing else, you might enjoy frequent appearances of dagger-sharp political art, courtesy of the kindness of Nancy Ohanian, who’s just published one of the most mischievous coffee table books that will cross your path: Between The Tweets, Editorial Cartoons by Nancy Ohanian.

Read ‘em and weep.

For more on politics, see below:

Appreciating Bernie in Our Era of Hobson’s Choices

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
Bernie 2020, by Nancy Ohanian

One thing we know for certain about what weighed on Bernie’s decision to suspend his campaign is that there are things we do not know for certain. Before and after the October 1st medical adventure his heart embarked on, I wrote he’d be ticking like a Timex and coming from behind like Seabiscuit, both prediction and prayer. I acknowledge my disappointment but refrain from judgment on what I believe to be a clean call.

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Why Bernie, Iowans? Banks!

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
Revolving Door, by Nancy Ohanian

Banks, including on Wall Street, fear no one like they fear Bernie. I’m sure they’re not keen on Elizabeth Warren, but Bernie strikes a unique terror, because banks know anyone taking them on will have to wield the bully pulpit against them like FDR did.

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Jane Fonda is Pitching for Our Future. Lend an Ear.

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
Jane Fonda

Even for those already in the climate choir, Jane Fonda’s sermon last month at the National Press Club is well worth your time to read or watch and listen to. I’ve logged loads of press club luncheon speeches over the years. This was one of the finest I’ve heard.

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Urgent Culture for a Foot-Dragging Congress

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
Don’t Cross the Bridge Before You Get to the River, 2008; photo by Francis Alÿs

Two Washington exhibits, terrifyingly timely for the stark options before us, demand attention from the recently returned 116th Congress. The Warmth of Other Suns, an exploration of the plight of migrants and refugees, at the Phillips Collection, departs Sept. 22nd. The David H. Koch Fossil Hall — Deep Time, at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum is, like its fossils, here for the long haul

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Money is Still King of the Hill; And We’re All the Poorer for It

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
American Dream Revisited, by Nancy Ohanian

In Washington, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Except when they get worse. The recent Democratic Party Presidential Debates had me thinking on the enclosed essay on campaign finance, fished out of the wayback machine, that appeared in Barron’s. Way back, over two decades.

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A Cure for the Mueller Hangover

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
Robert Mueller: Into the Swamp, by Nancy Ohanian

If you haven’t seen it, the long version of Matt Taibbi’s critique of journalism over Russia-gate, is worth your time as an exercise in grappling with media herd instinct and the folly of putting our grand papers of record at the head of the herd.

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Ice Pick Donald

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
Narcissistic Psychopath by Nancy Ohanian

Attending as press, alas, not as a member, I first crossed paths with the Patriotic Millionaires several years ago at one of their events in Washington. At a dinner they hosted afterwards, I had the added treat of Alan Grayson at my table, and was mighty impressed with both the group and with Grayson’s witty comments about naked influence-peddling on the Hill and Congressional hypocrisy.

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Dance with the One that Brought You – BERNIE!

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
Bernie 2020, by Nancy Ohanian

Dance with the one that brought you – BERNIE! As Bernie changed the national dialogue on critical issues and transformed large swaths of the Democratic Party, that’s my bid for his slogan. 

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Haven’t Enough to Keep You Awake at Night? Try the Doomsday Clock for a Truthful State of the Union

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
Andrew Wheeler, by Nancy Ohanian

Tick Tock. The good folks at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists have returned to wind their Doomsday Clock. Last Thursday at the National Press Club a group of well-credentialed speakers, including former California governor Jerry Brown and former Secretary of Defense William Perry, underscored the organization’s warning that we have established residence in “the new abnormal.”

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Know Voters so Disillusioned by Government They’re on the Fence About Voting in the Midterms?

By Skip Kaltenheuser
in :  Politics
Nancy Ohanian's Last Supper of The Second Year

Despite democracy’s diminishment by gerrymandering and the playbook of suppression, your vote is still your best Hail Mary defending against the Big Money’s low art of the thinly disguised bribe. It’s your best chance to sink the oligarchy floating in on the tides of captured government.

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