lies and fear and authoritarianism 

JC/ August 26, 2025/ history

“the jews are overcrowding our hospitals” – hitler“immigrants are a burden on medicare and medicaid” -trump These statements are both lies. They are lies that prey on our insecurities we have about life and death. Our insecure feelings about life and death give us the fear we need to rationalize the empowerment of this mass murdering child rapist. Get it?

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The curse, Wakefield’s knuckleball, and another f’n home run.

JC/ August 13, 2025/ history, language

When Wake’s knuckleball launched off of Aaron’s bat on the night of October 16, 2003, every member of Red Sox Nation was hit in the gut. The hit, so reminiscent of Bucky f’n Dent’s, hit us like Babe Ruth himself had put the lumber to the soft tissue of our midsections with his 38oz Louisville Slugger. We, the nation, Red

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Divide and conquer

JC/ July 22, 2025/ history

This is a summary of my recent learnings of North American history in context of contemporary events. Studying history has opened the time aperture through which I look at our current situation. I am reticent to admit my negligence in considering the past prior to this year.  To understand the authoritarian state of the US today, we cannot look back

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