HeyJaredAlma S Flesch
A Holocaust survivor who has experienced both Nazism and fascism at first hand. A lawyer, now retired, and a (practically) lifelong New Yorker and Democrat.
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The Uses of Expletives (opens the original)
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Though no psychologist, I am convinced that expletives play an important role in our psychological well-being, helping us vent frustration and regain mental balance in trying circumstances. Who among us after stubbing a toe or dropping a priceless crystal vase has not found relief in uttering loudly one of a small – in English, all too small – number of available expletives? And I am sure that someone seriously angered by another person may occasionally find it salutary to invite that person to
The Unholy Trinity (opens the original)
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Now that the winter of our discontent has turned to not-so-glorious summer, it would be hard to decide which part of the federal government has inflicted the worst damage to our country since the start of Trump’s second term. Is it the spineless Congressional majority? The fools and incompetents running various cabinets and agencies? Or is it Trump himself for whom there is no need of a descriptive adjective (or, as my learned mother-in-law would have said “epitheton ornans”).No one could be fau
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