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This week's writing 3/25/27

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If You Read One Thing By Me This Week

Yes, we should use the f-word for fascists. (EIH)

Politics

Trump paid off Stormy Daniels to subvert democracy. (Public Notice)

Trump refuses to let the GOP distance itself from his indictment. (EIH)

Biden is fighting hidden fees in entertainment and leisure. He should fight them in education and health care too. (Editorial Board)

Defending Trump now doesn’t hurt Ds; it hurts Trump’s GOP rivals. (EIH)

Pop Culture Criticism

Who is the villain in Power of the Dog? (EIH)

De La Soul’s Stakes Is High has aged well. (Splice Today)

Country Gold kicks country music authenticity in its big dumb hat. (Chicago Reader)

Separating art and artist is easy when you hate the art. What about when you don’t? (EIH)

Star Trek TOS: Court Martial, and the real danger from computers. (EIH)

The Firestarter remake fizzles. (EIH)

Poetry

On reading and not reading Diana Chang’s wonderful poem “A Wall of Their Own”. (EIH)

A poem inspired by Ko Un. (Five Fleas)

Sure to Meet

My ear fell off
and went to the land of the dead.
Now I am listening listening listening.
I hear the dead they say,
We hear you.
Let us in.

A poem about being a real poet. (Five Fleas)

Real Poet

I’m a real poet
since I have all of these books
of poetry that I plan
to have read someday.