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The Weekly Screed
by David Benjamin “Now it is Biden’s moment… The moment of an American who understands that you can’t sculpt from rotten wood, and so every democracy requires the foundation of truth.” — Roger Cohen MADISON, Wis. — I’m the eternal political optimist, even in the wake of two presidential elections that would’ve prompted Pollyanna to…
Read More...by David Benjamin MADISON, Wis. — One of the reviews of my book, The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked, which is sort of a memoir, took note of the fact that I had let my dad off the hook for his human frailties and flagrant unfatherliness. The reviewer thought I should have…
Read More...by David Benjamin “In Iowa, where politics is a popular sport, any competent candidate knows how to answer questions like ‘What is your all-time favorite Iowa State Fair butter sculpture?’ (The safest answer is the butter Last Supper).” —Ed Kilgore, New York magazine MADISON, Wis. — The great pitfall to being a “populist,” a callus-fingered…
Read More...by David Benjamin “In dis worl, lots of folks is gotter suffer fer udder folks’ sins. Look like hit’s mighty onwrong; but hit’s des dat away. Tribbalashun seem like she’s a-waitin’ roun’ de cornder fer ter ketch one en all un us, honey.” —Uncle Remus MADISON, Wis. — When I was a kid, obediently memorizing…
Read More...by David Benjamin “Are we sure? Can we trust that? A man who so frequently and flamboyantly plays the victim, and who has been prophylactically compiling ways to explain away or dispute a projected election loss to Joe Biden, is now being forced off the campaign trail, which will be a monster of an excuse.”…
Read More...by David Benjamin “Life on earth is an endless chain of parasitism which would soon lead to the complete annihilation of all living things unless the incorruptible workers of the vegetable kingdom constantly renewed the supply of suitable nitrogen and carbon compounds which other living things can filch… In the last analysis, man may be defined…
Read More...by David Benjamin “[The Mueller investigation is] the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!” ― Donald John Trump MADISON, Wis. — The most thrilling, dramatic and earthshaking revelation of the Trump era in America is still almost entirely secret and might well remain uncovered beyond many of our lifetimes. It has…
Read More...by David Benjamin “All through grade school, I had seen the tall, the strong, the swift, the comely, the bright and affluent among my peers reap notice, bask in praise and collect loving cups while the rest of us gleaned consolation from the crumbs at their feet. We lived by the motto, “Nice try.” Without…
Read More...by David Benjamin “Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.” ― Pat Conroy “You talking to me, teach?” —…
Read More...by David Benjamin (ISSUED FROM THE OVAL OFFICE AND SIGNED ON 4 SEPTEMBER 2020) By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution, the laws of the United States of America and the universal consensus that I alone can fix the horror left behind by the Kenyan usurper, and to protect the Nation…
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