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Madeleine Cravens is a poet of delectable desolation. Pleasure Principle is the name of her first book, and beyond the Freudian reference I can’t help but hear the echo of another kind of principle, the principal, that which we pay when we pay what we owe. To grow up is, in some ways, to find out how much you owe—for and to childhood and its illusions, for and against its dreams and evasions. It’s possible we never really grow up, but only because the more we’re encased in our bodies, the more we’re so plainly still seeking the same things we always did—food, sleep, love, good times. And while this book is about pleasure, certainly—and there are electric sexual moments (“Ariana kissed me on the bridge, / then slept with Brandon after everyone / downtown lost power.”)—it is most of all a set of poems whose music grapples with the disintegration of the poet’s parents’ marriage even as it grapples with the rugged wasteland of young adult life and longing more generally. There are many poets writing spare, hyper-efficient lyric, but you would be hard-pressed to find one as sure-footed and savvy, and relentlessly good as this one.
Time for the NCGOP to rewrite the rules again Digby has a post prepped for later today on Republican sore-loserism in Georgia (based on a Rolling Stone piece). It’s the sort of tactic with which we are well familiar next door in North Carolina. It’s simply this: If Republicans lose under established election rules, change the rules. Judd Legum spotlights the latest Republican effort in North Carolina to tip the governor’s race in favor of Lt. Gov. Mark “Choking on my own blood” Robinson, the freaky Christian nationalist and conspiracy theorist. He’s trailing in fundraising behind the state’s Attorney General Josh Stein (D). “The most recent campaign finance reports show that Stein has raised over $19 million, with $12.7 million cash on hand,” Legum begins.
Fatherhood. One of the great joys of a man’s life, second only to secret fatherhood. Unfortunately, due to the high cost of living, I fear I may never get the chance to start a second family.
What does it say about our current economic climate that a hardworking individual like myself can’t maintain multiple households a few towns apart? Did our Founding Fathers—many of whom had secret children of their own—not declare the pursuit of happiness an unalienable right? Frankly, it’s unconstitutional that rampant inflation is keeping me from achieving paternal inflation.
I have to work multiple jobs as it is just to feed and clothe one family. There’s not a chance in hell I’ll be able to support a second set of children anytime soon, let alone send them to college. Especially since they’d have to go out of state, just to be safe. Don’t need them all ending up in the same media studies class and striking up a conversation about their strikingly similar dads.
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Whereas increasing the difference between a model and its target system may have the advantage that the model becomes easier to study, studying a model is ultimately aimed at learning something about the target system. Therefore, additional approximations come with the cost of making the correspondence between model and target system less straight- forward. Ultimately, […]
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Report exposes over 100,000 cases of corporate wrongdoing since 2010, with rule-breakers often given just a slap on the wrist
The Gambling Commission is being sued for mishandling the bidding process amid concerns that 'thousands of good causes' that rely on funding may miss out
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Check out some very interesting preview images for BBC and Disney+'s Doctor Who Season 1 Episode 7: "The Legend of Ruby Sunday."
Biden’s new immigration order sucks. I’m sorry, it does. I know it’s a big election issue for a lot of people, including Democrats, and they’re trying to mitigate any erosion of their voting coalition. But the reality is that border crossings are way down over the last 6 months and it’s really overkill. Having said that, they are apparently also on the verge of offering up something very positive on immigration: Looking to shore up Latino votes in Nevada and Arizona for his reelection campaign, President Joe Biden is on the verge of soon following up last week’s executive action aimed at curbing border crossings with another move focused on providing legal status for long-term undocumented immigrants who are married to American citizens. Though final details have not been decided, officials are reviewing an existing legal authority known as “parole in place” that would shield select undocumented immigrants from deportation and allow them to work legally in the country as they seek citizenship. The orders have not yet been presented to Biden himself for review.
Today is a public holiday in the parts of Australia that I live and I have commitments including a lot of travel coming up. So I’ll be back on Wednesday. Advance orders for my new book are now available The manuscript for my new book, co-authored by Warren Mosler, is now with the publisher and…
On a warm evening almost a decade ago, I sat under the stars with Daniel Ellsberg while he talked about nuclear war with alarming intensity. He was most of the way through writing his last and most important book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. Somehow, he had set aside the denial so many people rely on to cope with a world that could suddenly end in unimaginable horror. Listening, I felt more and more frightened. Dan knew what he was talking about. After working inside this country’s doomsday machinery, even drafting nuclear war plans for the Pentagon during President John F. Kennedy’s administration, Dan Ellsberg had gained intricate perspectives on what greased the bureaucratic wheels, personal... Read more This podcast with the New Yorker’s Susan Glasser, Jane Mayer and former GOP strategist Sarah Longwell was quite fascinating. Longwell is all over the media sharing the information about the focus groups she holds with swing voters. In this, though, she shares her advice for the Democrats about how to reach them and I thought it was excellent. The one piece of advice that really sounds smart to me is the idea that if Biden’s big weakness is his age, they should roll out all the surrogates from around the country, like Governors Whitmer, Newsom, Shapiro etc to show there is a strong Democratic bench that’s young and vital. It reflects on the party rather than Biden but its useful in any case. And she says they should go to lengths to show that he has young an vital people all around him. She didn’t advise it, but I wondered if they should show some cabinet meetings. Obviously, they don’t have to do it like Trump did with all the sycophants making fools of themselves over Dear Leader. But it might be useful for the public to see the people in the administration who back Biden up day to day.
How is this not disqualifying? The man who orchestrated what happened that day is under indictment for that crime but is running for president again. And he might win. We are living in Bizarroworld.
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