Ever since he led them to political self-immolation with the 2013 government shutdown, Sen. Ted Cruz has been a kind of spiritual leader for the most deranged elements of the House Republican caucus. Unfortunately, those elements have now taken over pretty much the entire caucus in the lower house, and Cruz has proven a vanguard for these elements in the Senate. So it makes sense that the now-bearded senator from Texas—presumably eager to convince us that he's not just a melting Ronald Reagan wax figure with the charisma to match—would join all but nine House Republicans in opposing some modest reforms to the Electoral Count Act.
Ever since he led them to political self-immolation with the 2013 government shutdown, Sen. Ted Cruz has been a kind of spiritual leader for the most deranged elements of the House Republican caucus. Unfortunately, those elements have now taken over pretty much the entire caucus in the lower house, and Cruz has proven a vanguard for these elements in the Senate. So it makes sense that the now-bearded senator from Texas—presumably eager to convince us that he's not just a melting Ronald Reagan wax figure with the charisma to match—would join all but nine House Republicans in opposing some modest reforms to the Electoral Count Act. |
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| We're not even done with the year, and gamers already have an all-timer on their hands. |
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Blonde, laid out in shifting aspect ratios and film stock, distorted lenses, switching from color to black & white, is a garish expressionistic illustration of what was already in Joyce Carol Oates' novel: claptrap Freudianism, victimization feminism, and the moral shock over the squalidness of Hollywood that, whether it's being sold via scandal sheets or novels with a literary pedigree, never fails to attract people who want to indulge their own sanctimonious voyeurism. Oates, the most morbid of celebrated American writers, has always filtered her tabloid sensibility through a cold high-Gothic approach that affords her literary cache while fending off charges of sensationalism. It's a decidedly anti-sensual approach and particularly unsuited to a figure as sensual as Marilyn Monroe—unless your goal is to depict Marilyn as nothing but a victim trafficked by powerful men and then used up by us, the public who, going to her movies, thrilled by her photo shoots, charmed or turned on or just made happy by the fact of her, were little more than her johns. |
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Whether you're looking to learn, laugh, or lose yourself in a great story, there's something here for every kind of reader. |
| The shoe also known as the "Bank Robber" is exactly what your footwear rotation is missing. |
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While we watch the disembowelment of various lawyers in the employ of a former president* and wrap ourselves in the momentum of the upcoming midterm elections, the climate crisis—its time and tides—waits for no one. Every other story in our politics is a sideshow now. Every other issue, no matter how large it looms in the immediate present, is secondary to the accumulating evidence that the planet itself (or at least large parts of it) may be edging toward uninhabitability. |
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