The GOP plays moral whack-a-mole (Kate Atkinson’s metaphor) with Jan. 6. Soon they may claim, like the government in “100 Years of Solitude,” that it never happened.
Tag Archives: Ambrose Bierce
Civil War Battle, Image of Climate Denial
Ambrose Bierce’s disturbing short story “Chickamauga” can be applied to climate change denialsm.
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The Super Bowl, Comic & Tragic Versions
The Patriots miraculously escaped a hanging, the Seahawks did not. It’s the difference between Gay’s “Beggars Opera” and Bierce’s “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”
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