Orwellian Morning Joe "Redefines Success" in Ukraine—Erasing Their Warmo...

I like how comfortable Greenwald is with himself. He's a good weight, seems toned--if anything, better looking than he was ten years ago. And no neurotic tics.

Diphthongs?

Goddamnit no--The "o" of "goat," and the "a" of "gate," are NOT diphthongs in Standard American and Canadian English, but, rather, monophthongs, like the monophthongs 'o' and 'e' of Spanish and Italian--and, as it happens, as the vowels in "goat" and "gate" were pronounced everywhere, even in southern England, in the first three-quarters of the 18th century. We do not say "go-oot," or "gay-eat." 

"Pronouns"?

It's not too surprising: Those mentally deficient enough to imagine that they can be whatever "gender" they wish to be, simply by wishing very hard to be it, aren't smart enough to grasp that they've no right to demand that other people participate in their nauseatingly personal delusion. Neither, of course, probably, do they understand that being particularly exigeant about how they may be addressed or referred-to in third person ("pronouns") is plain bad manners--and very offensive to those upon whom such extortion is attempted.

Tlaltecuhtli

Whose enormous effigy in pink andesite was unearthed a dozen or so years ago in Ciudad Mexico, frankly, scares me to death. There's a timeliness, a specificity, about Her/His  reappearance that alarms and horrifies me. This is what we're facing at the beginning of the Third Millennium.

Glenn Greenwald & Richard Medhurst LIVE

Brilliant, musical discourse based on truth, without filters. I have been asked if I did not think the assuredly wise and well-informed young Mr. Medhurst were not "saintly?" As to his putative sanctity, still, I have no idea--but of Richard Medhurst's honesty and devotion to truth there can be no question. Same's true, of course, of GG.