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Fred Schruers

Fred Schruers

"The White Lotus”: “Shit’s About to Get Crazy”?

"The White Lotus”: “Shit’s About to Get Crazy”?

Man, we really could have used a distractingly seductive streaming series right about now. If indeed our democracy is to be dismantled before our eyes, with only the court system to stem the DOGE tide, couldn’t Mike White have offered us a more enfolding respite with Season 3 of

"A Pair of Small Time Hoods"

"A Pair of Small Time Hoods"

Over the past few painful weeks it has become clear to me that a lot of my friends, though they remain conversationally well-informed about our current hideous administration, have ducked most opportunities (if that's the word) to observe Donald J. Trump's gruesomely sneering piehole forming words

Gene Hackman, Dead at 95: "In Honest Fashion"

With thanks to IndieWire's Christina Blauvelt for the assignment and edit– and please go to IndieWirefor more and updated coverage of Hackman's life and demise– this obituary it's sad to see: Gene Hackman Dead at 95: An Actor of Unsurpassed Range, from Gritty Realism

The Muskrat Mess: Paul Rieckhoff Isn't Having It

The Muskrat Mess: Paul Rieckhoff Isn't Having It

This is not about tax cuts. This is about power. This is about seizing the levers of power. That's what they're doing right now. They're not concerned about the midterms. They're not concerned about re-election. They're concerned about grabbing the

David Johansen Could Use (Your) Protection from the Cold

David Johansen Could Use (Your) Protection from the Cold

You think I'm a whore But I got a heart of gold You're lockin' your doors You're leavin' me, out in the cold Well I've been bought and baby I've been sold and I Need protection from the

"The individuals seizing power have no right to it"

The individuals seizing power have no right to it. A coup is underway, against Americans as possessors of human rights and dignities, and against Americans as citizens of a democratic republic. Each hour this goes unrecognized makes the success of the coup more likely. Timothy Snyder, “Of Course It’s

The Biggest Fool That’s Ever Hit the Big Time

The Biggest Fool That’s Ever Hit the Big Time

“Might win an Oscar, you can’t never tell…” Buck Owens, “Act Naturally” “In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true...mass propaganda discovered that its