It's an American thing, but happy Thanksgiving to all.

That's so dumb it's not even funny. Sure it wasn't a smokescreen for the Benghazi "crimes"? No, no, no, it was a coverup for Monicagate! This is why I didn't want to discuss politics here. Came here to discuss things literary, found a lot of leftist Trump-bashing, added my two cents. And ...

Tomorrow's the day the revolution begins, according to the New York Times: https://s3.amazonaws.com/causevox-staging/test%2F1509485330283-RefuseFascism_NYT_ad_press.jpg That's the beginning, tomorrow. Then on Nov 8 we get a major event in The Revolution. The one-year anniversary of Trump's election,...

Well, you certainly have the credentials to give this situation an in depth analyzation, so who am I to argue? But it might help put things in perspective if we compare what's going on with the investigation into Trump's "collusion" with Russia, and what's going on with Clinton's "col...

THESIS: America, halcyon days of the 1950s. You also got the thesis wrong, those were not halcyon days. As DWill and Robert said, we needed to "open up the narrow dominant American society of the 1950s." I was just harkening back to the Tyler Durden article with my mention of "halcyo...

Our current fiction selection The Master and Margarita explores cultural polarities in Bolshevik Russia that help to explain current political debates. It is arguably the greatest Russian novel of the last century. People may find the conversation there of some interest even if they have not read t...

From an excruciatingly long article, but this is the core of it: ...As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton exercised crucial decision-making power on the Committee for Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to approve the Russian government energy agency Rusatom’s purchase of majority contr...

An anniversary worth celebrating indeed. And half a millenium to the day.

The Uranium One deal The Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, took control of the Canadian company Uranium One, which had uranium-mining stakes that stretched from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world's largest uranium producers, per NYT, and brought Vladimir ...

lol. Thanks guys. You had me going there for a moment, pretending to be Coincidence Theorists. But then I remembered that you're not a bunch of five-year-olds. Thanks again for the chuckle.