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LBCF, No. 242: ‘Dramatic invasion’

July 26, 2019 By Fred Clark

Reality is only that which can be corroborated by the text and the text is only that which can be corroborated by the interpretive scheme. Read more

‘Got any grapes?’

July 25, 2019 By Fred Clark

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The biggest story so far about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal is that we probably haven’t yet heard the biggest story. Read more

Jubilee always makes some people angry

July 24, 2019 By Fred Clark

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It’s a spiritual disease condemned by the book of Jonah and by Jesus’ parables, but which serves the interests of the very rich. Read more

‘We’ve come to cash a check’

July 23, 2019 By Fred Clark

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“We’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.” Read more

Smart people saying smart things (7.19.19)

July 19, 2019 By Fred Clark

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Read the smart things Andrea Pitzer, David Dayen, Carlos Maza, Lili Loofbourow, and Adam Serwer have to say and you’ll be smarter too. Read more

LBCF, No. 241: ‘Sign my yearbook?’

July 19, 2019 By Fred Clark

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If you can’t read a parable without reducing it to a single, linear, propositional “meaning,” then you probably can’t write a parable either. Read more

The persistent appeal of Satanic baby-killerism

July 18, 2019 By Fred Clark

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The fantasy isn’t so much that there are real monsters, but that if there were, then we — and we alone — would be the ones to stand against them. Read more

Yeah, well at $19 a beer I’m not surprised

July 17, 2019 By Fred Clark

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A Border Patrol badge is now as meaningless to everyone else as it is to Border Patrol agent. Shut it down, salt the earth. Read more

On Republican outreach to black voters and the utter lack thereof

July 16, 2019 By Fred Clark

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The point here isn’t that Republicans are a bunch of racists, but that they’re showing us they know their agenda is bad news for black voters. Read more