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  Poles and Holes: Discourse of Cosmopolitans welcome to gay kindergarten, you sexy young things CHRIS BRAY The topic isn’t the topic. The subtext has overwhelmed the text. Saticoy Elementary School, North Hollywood Following a  parent protest  at a North Hollywood elementary school against an endlessly metastasizing LGBT curriculum (and a similar protest in suburban Glendale), the Los Angeles Unified School District has called down to the engine room for  flank speed , and read this carefully: The resolution introduced by board President Jackie Goldberg and member Nick Melvoin served as the board's official recognition of June as LGBTQ+ Pride Month — while also honoring October as LGBTQ+ History Month; Oct. 11 as National Coming Out Day; Nov. 20 as Transgender Day of Remembrance; March 31 as Transgender Day of Visibility; and April 12 as a Day of Silence honoring the "contribution of the LGBTQ+ community." All your base are belong to us. LGBT curriculum only fills d...

  Rehearsed Lives and Planned History ejcurtin     “The technical achievement of advanced industrial society, and the effective manipulation of mental and material productivity have brought about  a shift in the locus of mystification. . . .  the rational rather than the irrational becomes the most effective vehicle of mystification.”   – Herbert Marcuse,  One-Dimensional Man “General, man is very uselful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.”                –  Bertolt Brecht, “From a German War Primer” Langdon Winner opens his prescient book,  The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology  (1986), with an anecdote about John Glenn and his experience orbiting the earth in 1962 aboard Friendship 7.  After long, rigorous training in simulators, Glenn found that when he looked at earth from orbit – o...

  There Never Was an Offramp in Ukraine Tom Luongo The long-awaited offensive from Ukraine has begun. So far the results have been mixed with both sides claiming victories per the normal flow of propaganda. None of that matters. What is not up for discussion is the tragedy, aimed squarely at civilians, of the Nova Kakhovka hydroelectric dam, attacked last night releasing the Dnieper river into the valley in Kherson oblast. This dam provided not only local electric power but also cooling water for the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. The ZNPP has been the subject of numerous incidents since this war began with battles being fought over it, and accusations flying wildly from the West as to how irresponsible Russia was. None of that turned out to be true as ZNPP was set up to be the site of a massive false flag involving UN inspectors which failed. It doesn’t matter who you back in this war or whose incentives you sympathize with. Act...