Memorandums from Mary
Friday, April 12, 2024
Fearing Societal Collapse, or Creating It?
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Gloria (America Ferrera) explains being a woman to Barbie, in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. In Dorothy L. Sayer’s essay, “The Human-Not-Quite-Human...
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Did McConnell (and Trump) Really Lower Your Taxes?
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Scottish-born Scrooge McDuck (created in 1947 by Carl Barks for Walt Disney Company) is a wealthy business duck, shown diving into his perso...
Sunday, March 24, 2024
The War on Immigrants
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In the Martin Scorsese film Gangs of New York, Bill Cutting “The Butcher” (Daniel Day Lewis, center front) particularly hates Irish immigr...
Friday, March 8, 2024
Trump’s Fence Was a Dumb Idea
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Scene from The Great Wall (with Matt Damon). In the 2016 film, the Great Wall was built not to keep out Huns, but to keep out monsters. Rule...
Monday, February 19, 2024
It’s a Puzzlement
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I’ve been trying to figure out since 2016 why Americans would vote for Donald Trump. In 1966’s The King and I, King Mongkut of Siam (Yul Br...
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