Memorandums from Mary

Sunday, May 5, 2024

The Plight of the INCEL

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  The “wild and crazy” Festrunk Brothers (Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd) seek large-breasted American women, in a 1977 Saturday Night Live s...
Monday, April 29, 2024

Demonizing “the Other”

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1938 Nazi propaganda praising the “Neues Volk” (the “New People”) of Nazi Germany. Why Hitler chose to persecute the Jews of Europe when he ...
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...
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