AFSC & Restructuring, Cont.: A quick recap: In early January 2022, we posted a report on an attempted uprising at AFSC, led by former staffer Lucy Duncan, intended to torpedo a proposed 2021 restructuring. The restructure was meant to carry out a strategic plan adopted in October 2020, and a draft had been debated and … Continue reading AFSC Restructure Update: Hurry Up — And Wait
Part 1 of this Review Here Part 2 of this Review Here It’s easy for non-Republican Trump-loathers like this reviewer to tut-tut at all the one-time anti-Trump GOP operatives who recanted and signed up with the MAGA mission once #45 was in the White House. Author Tim Miller draws numerous painful portraits of many of … Continue reading Timothy Miller “Why We Did It” Review, Part 3:
Playing the Lottery Winter 1969, Boston. I was driving a cab at night, while attending Harvard Divinity School. I had run through some scholarship and loan money, and needed cash; Christmas and all that. But I also thought it would be a “good experience” for a wannabe writer. When I turned my cab onto St. … Continue reading Another Quaker Holiday Story: Playing the Lottery
[Part One of this “Review in Pieces” is here.] Imagine a history of the Trump rise done not by a DC insider, but by Stephen King, who had taken a double dose of bad acid and is channeling Hunter Thompson in bed with Franz Kafka. Then you’ll begin to get the drift of Tim … Continue reading Timothy Miller “Why We Did It” Review, Part 2
It’s time for Democrats to fear their own voters David Sirota Republican politicians fear their base, while Democratic politicians don’t. That’s why we are in this mess The Guardian — Mon 4 Jul 2022 After the overturning of Roe v Wade, there is bad news and there is good news. But first, an admission. For … Continue reading An Independence Day Jeremiad