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Michael Webster

12 Mar 2023 • 1 min read

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My First Rodeo

Once you're clued in, you can see the opening words and prayer are more than just performative patriotism and piety. It's well-thought-out propaganda with hidden structure and meanings for a radical right wing Christian nationalist agenda. Sounds crazy, eh, but it's true.

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A Very Brutal Xmas

I made a second trip to Columbus over the holidays. A town of roughly 50,000 in central Indiana, Columbus is an important destination for modern architecture, much of it Brutalist. Over 70 buildings are considered architecturally significant. Knowing how much I like visiting botanic gardens, my daughter Chloe sent

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Labor Day

Contemplate that sign. They're recruiting old men to be Pizza delivery drivers. Charles Bowden wrote about the Mexican border as a laboratory of our future back in the nineties when I was living in Tucson. I did some writing on border issues back then. One piece was about

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