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Hyperbole is dead.

June 15
These days, Andy Borowitz and my friend Barry Freidman, two gifted satirists, seem to be merely repackaging the horrors that proceed like the quickening footsteps of the zombies Money and Power who have a bead on each of us certainly need our brains.

One note from a Mainer about Graham Platner. You might not know it, Da…

The Joys of Group Narcissism

May 20
Imagine that you got to live your entire life sure about the make-up of the universe, personally aware of a divine being who created everything, and you couldn’t tell anyone.

Writing today because we seem to be approaching...

April 7
It’s hard to give reality proper credence when one’s upbringing and one’s role models have imbued one with the need to put a mystical spin on everything. Indeed, religious thinking is the one human mental illness that is mutually reinforcing and in which the sufferer feels proud of his own rejection of reality.

We look at the painful denouements of mut…