trump's ascendancy has made visible a plague of deep-seated civic illiteracy, a corrupt political system and a contempt for reason that has been decades in the making.  it also points to the withering of civic attachments, the decline of public life and the use of violence and fear to shock and numb everyday people.

henry a. giroux.


archie needs to be taken in hand and guided, and his g-ma is a grand girl, but clearly, though much in love, o'erwhelmed. 

these are things of real life which are happening today. or is it all a dream? there's a sun dog over the city, oops, it's gone.