Author: Serene Sargent

I make jewelry and try to read everything on the US Civil War and Reconstruction that comes out, (thereby knowing many smart people.) I know a bit of law, care about Beatles historiography and love the Nagras. Jane Austen whispered her Emma secrets to me across many miles and 200 years. ✨ My father was Bill Sargent, the Pay Per View Beatles guy. #DYRBRY

a much needed moment of levity

  Stephen A. Crockett Jr. at theroot.com writes: “The Senate Intelligence Committee Let Jeff Sessions Off the Hook” I have to concur. “The Senate Intelligence Committee didn’t do its job. No one, not one person on the Senate Intelligence Committee, asked the question Attorney General Jeff Sessions needed to answer: How long has he been…

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BEWARE:

BEWARE:
Heed to my warning before you move out
And don’t cross your guns with her quick-trigger mouth
She’s the infamous myth of the Indian South
She’s got game-playing, slick talking, dual-barreled lips
Revolver, revolving, dual-barreled hips
She’s the 38-Special of LSD trips

The Secret to Happy Russians

“Американские СМИ раздули скандал из-за фотографий встречи Лаврова и Трампа Россия и США сделали шаг к снятию напряженности — так в Москве и в Вашингтоне оценивают итоги переговоров Сергея Лаврова с американским президентом и госсекретарем. Обсуждалось создание зон безопасности в Сирии и подготовка встречи Владимира Путина и Дональда Трампа в июле на саммите G20.” They…

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Let’s Do the Rope-a-Dope Again

MHA day and I really needed me a little Rope-a-Dope illustration to get me in the right frame of mind. It’s a beautiful thing. I decided that I’d post a slightly fuller picture for the record; and for the many who have no idea what “rope-a-dope” is. This is Ali “losing” all but the last 7 seconds…

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“Well, you’re looking at the wrong guy” Bacevich on the Middle East

A. (Andrew Bacevich): “US policy was both contradictory and incoherent… worse still, they put that ignorance on display for friend and foe alike to contemplate. The US looked both stupid and untrustworthy.”
Q. (Mark Kukis): “I need cheering up.”
A. (Bacevich): “Well, you’re looking at the wrong guy.”