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There’s no shortage of doom and gloom lately. With America’s nuclear launch codes in the hands of an incompetent crook suffering from dementia, there’s plenty of reason for concern. Many other world leaders are sucking up to some geezer in Davos who seems like a wannabe Bond villain, and there’s not much to love about that, either. (more…)
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Southern writing may be the last American literature in that it has retained a true Anglo-Saxon base in terms of its authors, themes, and relation to history — specifically, white history.
Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend, published in 2015 and winning a justly-earned Pulitzer Prize for best novel, has a real command of writing, and her prose is a roller coaster dipping and rising from sad to exuberant that keeps you reading. (more…)
Jackson, Mississippi’s Deputy Director of Water Operations, Mary D. Carter, who is presiding over the city’s current water crisis.
Jackson, Mississippi’s Deputy Director of Water Operations, Mary D. Carter, who is presiding over the city’s current water crisis.
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The coverage of the ongoing water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi signifies much that has become dysfunctional in modern America. If future historians (Hey, guys!) are ever searching for a symbol of the great American decline during its latter days, they could do a lot worse than this.
In the last week of August, heavy rains combined with many years of neglect caused the city’s main water treatment facility to fail. (more…)