Some Euphonic Phrases and Sentences

 Just some writing that I like.

--"these societies are beset by a broad, nebulous discontent"       Albena Azmanova

--"To be radical is to grasp things by the root."  Karl Marx

--"rain-slicked streets"

--"a brief and unheralded career"    Bruce Handy

--"The overexamined life is not worth living."

--"the high cost of Shen Yun tickets"  John Ficarra

"without running afoul of child-labor laws"  John Ficarra

"available only to the Musks, Bezoses, and Zuckerbergs of the world"    John Ficarra

--"you'd better be prepared to shell out some dead presidents"      John Ficarra

--"like Geppetto fabricating his Pinocchio"   Phillip Lopate

--"the self as a social construct"  Phillip Lopate

--"my physiological restlessness"  Phillip Lopate

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No Kings

I am anxiously awaiting the news on how the No Kings protests went. I feel bad for not making it but I am committing to making the next one. 

If we are able to have a next one.

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Watching

I've been watching the president's actions more closely recently. Indeed, my prediction is that we are moving closer by the day to a fascist state.

It's amazing, but there is barely a peep heard from conservatives. This is how it must have been like in the early days of Hitler.

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