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Guest Post. Saturday Morning Pam-toons. A Speakeasy in the Age of Prohibition
What fascinates me about Speakeasies was the mingling between and relative equality of rich, poor, women, men, black and white. These illicit clubs helped with the momentum and success of civil rights movements. The current Prohibition with its categories of prohibited… Read More ›
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WHY THE FULL ENGLISH IS SO WIDELY SAVOURED
I’ve already commented in this blog that behind my wife’s blonde exterior there be dragons. Not in the sense that she’s any more dangerous than the Lilith of the Apocrypha. Rather it’s the quirky things that attract her considerable research… Read More ›
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MY BELOVED MARJORIE
For those of you who’ve been following this blog long enough to have detected a gradual drift from my erstwhile Marxist roots towards the Alt-Right, be advised that I’ve just taken leave of both my wife and my senses and… Read More ›
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IN MEMORIUM
Today, January 27, marks the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps at Auschwitz. There weren’t a whole lot of people left there to be liberated. And of those who were there aren’t a whole lot still alive… Read More ›
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RUMMAGING
The other day I happened to be looking out the window and I noticed someone in the alley rummaging through our garbage. He wasn’t one of, you know, those people. He was wearing a suit and a tie. And so,… Read More ›
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