The Post-Partisan Emporium

     

  Our Titanic Juneteenth Pride Another month in the Idiocracy DONALD JEFFRIES For a time in the late 1990s, after the hit movie  Titanic  was released, I became immersed in the subject. Which was a bit uncharacteristic for me, given its general non-conspiratorial nature. Only later would I learn about the critics of the upcoming Federal Reserve Act perishing, and even theories that the entire thing was faked. This week, America 2.0 has been inundated with coverage of a handful of men becoming lost while sinking to the bottom of the ocean, in an effort to get a closeup view of the sunken liner. They were all wealthy enough to pay $250,000 each for the ultimate One Percent adventure. I didn’t pay much attention to the story at first, but once they claimed that the leader had made some ridiculous comments about not hiring any “50 year old White guys,” my spidey-sense was triggered. And then I learned that one of their wives was a descendant of a famous Titanic couple. Oh, the irony! But w

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ~ Ernest Hemingway  Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek  Dec 30, 2022   Silvia Sanchez writing in Central Juvenile Hall in 1996. Maybe it’s time to buy a typewriter again. ChatGPT  has determined that my just-published article  mRNA Madness   is fiction and filled with misinformation and conspiracy theories. This was brought to my attention on Twitter by  @U2adrock . I remember the days when we all wrote on typewriters—yes, I really do. Can we go back to old school? Is it possible? Build street teams in every city, like the underground rappers used to do. Go into all the cafes, the bars, the colleges, the gyms, the religious centers, plaster every major city with hard copies of essays and articles that people can hold in their hands and read over a pint of beer or a cup of coffee. Of course, that would be called pollution. How many trees would get murdered in the process. But to me, somehow, it would be a beaut