Anthony Bourdain..... this is just my take, but a person so successful and upbeat is expected to act that way all the time. Did his co-workers and friends allow him to fail? to weep? to stay home from work and sleep all day, to get drunk, to be angry
Alan Archibald It can be argued that the United States is immersed in a de facto civil war.
As a people, we are enraged, bleeding at the eyes with one another's political postures, religious poses and sexual mores.
Yet, each year when the world's nations are evaluated for happiness, the U.S. consistently ranks as one of the happiest places on earth; in 2017 we ranked #14.
Perhaps our pasted-on "smiley faces" reveal cultural sleepwalkers who have bought their own propaganda.
"We're #1!" is more true for scads of shameful characteristics than uplifting ones. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../the-united-states...
Meanwhile, Trump -- almost without notice -- has surrendered global hegemony to the Chinese whose stunningly productive private-public initiatives propel that nation forward. Meanwhile, Despicable Donald and his fellow ideologues content themselves with conservative sloganeering, dedicating themselves to legislative gridlock and assiduous deconstruction of every democratic institution America has admirably - and painstakingly - built up.
Indeed, this step-by-step dismantling of democracy -- coupled with 45's irrepressible fondness for thugs -- is the red meat his neo-fascist Base craves most.
It is beyond absurd that Trump attacks his G7 allies, at the same time insisting Putin be re-admitted to the organization independent of any quid-pro-quo.
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../frog-hospitals...
At least suggest something, Deal Maker!
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../trump-colluded...
How about: "Hey, Vlad. Give Crimea back to Ukraine!"
As a people, we are enraged, bleeding at the eyes with one another's political postures, religious poses and sexual mores.
Yet, each year when the world's nations are evaluated for happiness, the U.S. consistently ranks as one of the happiest places on earth; in 2017 we ranked #14.
Perhaps our pasted-on "smiley faces" reveal cultural sleepwalkers who have bought their own propaganda.
"We're #1!" is more true for scads of shameful characteristics than uplifting ones. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../the-united-states...
Meanwhile, Trump -- almost without notice -- has surrendered global hegemony to the Chinese whose stunningly productive private-public initiatives propel that nation forward. Meanwhile, Despicable Donald and his fellow ideologues content themselves with conservative sloganeering, dedicating themselves to legislative gridlock and assiduous deconstruction of every democratic institution America has admirably - and painstakingly - built up.
Indeed, this step-by-step dismantling of democracy -- coupled with 45's irrepressible fondness for thugs -- is the red meat his neo-fascist Base craves most.
It is beyond absurd that Trump attacks his G7 allies, at the same time insisting Putin be re-admitted to the organization independent of any quid-pro-quo.
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../frog-hospitals...
At least suggest something, Deal Maker!
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/.../trump-colluded...
How about: "Hey, Vlad. Give Crimea back to Ukraine!"
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