Below please find the beginnings of an email I and dozens of others got from Lionel this morning. As I’ve noted before, I had never heard of him before attending a conference in New York City marking the 15th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. He made a lot of sense that day while entertaining. He doesn’t mention 9/11 below. In recent months this blog has focused mostly on the war in Ukraine and related events. Below, Lionel mentions that only once directly and a few times tangentially. Readers are invited to enjoy his messages and see what they agree with and what they don’t. They are also urged to look at today’s previous entry. — MCM

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Greetings from a Parallel Universe

By Lionel

If you can’t convince them, confuse them. — Harry S Truman

If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy . . . to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains of political superstition, and raise degraded man to his proper rank; if these things be libellous . . . let the name of libeller be engraved on my tomb. ― Thomas Paine, The Thomas Paine Reader

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It may be too much to ask citizens to be conversant with that they rail against.

* If it’s on cable news it’s a lie.

* You’re not watching news. You’re watching distractions.

* The greatest fable yet concocted. An incredible yarn. The product of desperation. The Hail Mary. When all else fails. Going for broke. Meanwhile the country exhales in collective ennui nonchalance and habituated boredom. Been there, done that. Next! Do you really think Trump went this crackers? Ever? No way. And now we find out. Now? What timing, huh?

* You can always guarantee that during any form of political or societal contretemps Howard Stern through his publicity units will invariably enter the fray with yet another seemingly irrelevant reference just to prove to the world he’s still alive.

* The era of the unipolar world is over.

* “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” —Daniel Patrick Moynihan

* Being Hutch’d. Alas poor Cassidy. So young to be set up this way . . . READ MORE . . .