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Goodman Speaks https://goodmanspeaks.com/ ON MATTERS OF DUBIOUS INTEREST Sat, 04 May 2024 14:13:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 163473000 Doing Time as a Protestor https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/05/04/doing-time-as-a-protestor/personal/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/05/04/doing-time-as-a-protestor/personal/#comments Sat, 04 May 2024 14:13:08 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2523 It’s not really déjà vu because the Vietnam era was different. But this week’s massive protests over Gaza on more than 30 campuses brought back heavy memories, mostly illustrating how the principles of protest have changed. I got involved in these early-‘60s protests against the war at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. I was …

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]]> https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/05/04/doing-time-as-a-protestor/personal/feed/ 4 2523 Watching Medical Ads on TV https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/04/27/watching-medical-ads-on-tv/media/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/04/27/watching-medical-ads-on-tv/media/#comments Sat, 27 Apr 2024 14:54:28 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2517 CNN seems to make most of its money selling this stuff to older people, its evening news audience. They know their viewers, yes they do, and the old ones are far more gullible and needy. Nobody else watches the evening news anyway, and elders buy more prescription drugs than any other group. Rather than consult …

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]]> https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/04/27/watching-medical-ads-on-tv/media/feed/ 3 2517 Meshugenah https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/04/20/meshugenah/politics/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/04/20/meshugenah/politics/#respond Sat, 20 Apr 2024 14:16:29 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2506 For you nonbelievers, this is Yiddish slang for someone who is or acts crazy. Four years ago, I claimed in a book, “Trump is the certified end of America as we know it.” Since then and even before, more evidence has piled up that the ex-president has moved from being an annoying but flagrant narcissist …

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]]> https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/04/20/meshugenah/politics/feed/ 0 2506 My Disaffection with Biden https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/04/13/my-disaffection-with-biden/policy/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/04/13/my-disaffection-with-biden/policy/#comments Sat, 13 Apr 2024 14:55:56 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2499 In a nutshell it’s this: He is still arming Israel to the teeth while that country commits flagrant genocide in Gaza. A recent story in the New York Review puts it this way: “Hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are at the brink of famine—a human-made disaster with roots in Israel’s history of using …

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]]> https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/04/13/my-disaffection-with-biden/policy/feed/ 5 2499 Life in 2025 https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/04/05/life-in-2025/politics/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/04/05/life-in-2025/politics/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:46:47 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2480 When Trump was reelected last year, his supporters finally came to their senses, except for the true cultists, of course. The common folk began to realize they needed to divorce themselves from all their former misconceptions of power and control. MAGA was no longer a political fantasy or, as some would call it, a delusion. …

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]]> https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/04/05/life-in-2025/politics/feed/ 2 2480 We Got Water https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/30/we-got-water/energy/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/30/we-got-water/energy/#respond Sat, 30 Mar 2024 14:42:58 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2472 It came at night while the town was sleeping, and the noise of the cisterns filling, unheard by most, gave way to shouts of surprise and pleasure in the morning as the citizens realized their good fortune. “At last,” cried Jeannine. “I thought the pinche Servicios de Agua had abandoned us.” The water shortage produced …

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]]> https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/30/we-got-water/energy/feed/ 0 2472 Gas Explosion in the Media https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/27/gas-explosion-in-the-media/culture/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/27/gas-explosion-in-the-media/culture/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:18:33 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2466 On Monday the Washington Post broke new ground with this news flash on its internet “front page”: Why is my gas so smelly? Gender, diet and plane rides can play a role. Yesterday they ran it again, putting it now “below the fold.” So the smell of your farts is now right up there with …

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]]> https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/27/gas-explosion-in-the-media/culture/feed/ 1 2466 What Billionaires Do at Dinner Parties https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/22/what-billionaires-do-at-dinner-parties/culture/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/22/what-billionaires-do-at-dinner-parties/culture/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:27:16 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2460 Well, they get drunk, of course. After the caviar is served and a few cocktails consumed, the party sits down to fancy entrées, then main courses like Kobe Steak, and a lot of wine. What they talk about is so banal that it encourages drinking. Something like this scenario apparently did in poor Angela Chao …

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]]> https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/22/what-billionaires-do-at-dinner-parties/culture/feed/ 4 2460 Hunting Wild Boar in La Pampa https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/17/hunting-wild-boar-in-la-pampa/travel/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/17/hunting-wild-boar-in-la-pampa/travel/#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2024 14:45:58 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2449 There was nothing left for me to do in Oaxaca. Erstwhile friends had fled north—where they encountered really bad weather while the days here were scorching. Talks at the Library I found totally uninteresting. The news media (CNN and Fox) had become so fixed in their political opinions that their comments were predictable and repetitive. …

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]]> https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/17/hunting-wild-boar-in-la-pampa/travel/feed/ 4 2449 Joe Biden, Humorist https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/09/joe-biden-humorist/politics/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/09/joe-biden-humorist/politics/#comments Sat, 09 Mar 2024 14:43:43 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2433 Thursday night’s State of the Union showed the President bantering about his age and at times not taking himself too seriously. After the speech he worked the room and said, “I kinda wish sometimes I was cognitively impaired,” meaning, I think, that it would be a good way to deflect the outrageous charges against him. …

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