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Fred Schruers

Fred Schruers

Corey Booker Made Me Cry; Now Let's Block the Coup

Corey Booker Made Me Cry; Now Let's Block the Coup

Yes, Cory Booker, you made me cry. I certainly hadn’t planned on that. As his marathon Monday-night speech before the Senate drove towards a record 25 hours, I was channel-flipping between such sports fare as Lakers versus Rockets and Dodger versus Braves, and also had the laptop open, second-screening

Growing Up Island--The Island Book of Records Will Take You There

There were three men came out of the West Their fortunes for to try And these three men made a solemn vow John Barleycorn must die… Traditional, from the song (and album of the same name by) Traffic When the above song and album made the transatlantic move from being

"Adolescence" Hits Hard: “If My Dad Made Me, How Did I Make That?”

"Adolescence" Hits Hard: “If My Dad Made Me, How Did I Make That?”

Let’s begin with a spoiler alert I’ll leave in lower case letters, although on paper it could seem a real doozy. That said, in in the bravely conceived and delivered dramatic foray that is “Adolescence,” it serves simply as prelude to a much more significant series of creative

"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