Suckering

Link from the NY Times

From recent correspondence

Edited by Morris Dean

What an opening last night, if Rubio or Cruz or Kasich could have taken it without doing themselves in...“Clash of Republican Con Artists” [Paul Krugman, NY Times, March 4]. Excerpt:

Tom Cruise no sorry Ted Cruz

By Penelope Griffiths

So the Trump lost in Iowa.
    But he didn’t really think he would triumph in Iowa. He isn’t a total idiot but a shrewd businessman, and he always knew that his brash, outspoken persona would not appeal to the masses. In the other corner waited Ted Cruz, who is not that well known over the Pond – other than that he was born in Canada but is a U.S. citizen. Oh, and also that he thinks the whole of America is doomed like a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah if they don’t follow his “God.”

Fish for Friday

Edited by Morris Dean

[Anonymous selections from recent correspondence]

Our classmate's son John's new book, The Last Ocean: Antarctica's Ross Sea Project: Saving the Most Pristine Ecosystem on Earth, is now out. John is committed to promoting ocean conservation. The book is full of amazing photographs, all of which are available as fine prints, and wonderful essays, as he is an excellent writer. John also has a website, and his sobering 9-minute film about "the last ocean" can be seen on YouTube:

Thor's Day: The Christian Right

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, talks to reporters

And its cult of masculinity

By Morris Dean

I didn't write the column I'd like to edify you with today. It's a fascinating piece written by Chris Hedges, a journalist specializing in American politics and society—his article, "The Radical Christian Right and the War on Government," which was published on October 6 on the news website TruthDig: Drilling beneath the Headlines.