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HL 50 – The Gun Cult Descends into Shirley Jackson’s Lottery Land
After Parkland, in stand your ground Florida and the Santa Fe Massacre in the have it your way (open and/or concealed carry) Lone Star state, the gun cult doubled and redoubled down. Armed guards at both schools weren’t enough. More guns packed by more teachers were...
HL 49 – Comcast’s Bid for Fox Shows That Under Trump Try Anything
“Say Anything” was a great John Cusack flick. Among many reasons was the line that billed it as a “Lloyd Meets Girl Movie.” Lloyd Dobler said any and everything and won the love of the objectively unreachable and out of his class, Diane Court played by Ione Skye. In...
HL 48 – It’s Time To Talk About America’s New Strain of Anti-Semitism
Reporting on the slobbering greeting lavished on the president by the Conservative Political Action Convention last week, NPR Washington Desk and Religion correspondent Ron Elving giggled that it was “as if [Trump] were Moses and all the prophets.” Perfectly apt...
HL 48 – Winning This November is Really Simple
The stakes in the 2018 congressional elections are greatest of any in midterm memory. If Democrats can thread the needle and regain control of the Senate, the next Gorsuch-like abomination can be prevented. The multi-faceted damage his votes and opinions will...
HL 47 – #MeToo For Due Process
Welcome back to Hopelessly Liberal after its long winter nap. Last year we tried to write about the “#MeToo movement” but each time HL’s advisory board vetoed the post. The sage and prescient advice was that the exemplars written about (Kevin Spacey was one, Bush 41...
HL 47 – Steal this Book (And Trash It) That’s What It’s Worth
As celebration of the Summer of Love’s 50th draws to a close and the masterful Burns/Novick Vietnam War series airs, those of an age recall the depravity, tragedy, greatness and ecstasy of that era. Abbie Hoffman, one of its prophets, spit out advice that has stood...