Judge. Rustburg, Virginia.
John Vachon, 1941
From the days before public faces of power were groomed to look less overtly like gangsters...
County judge... Leadville, Colorado.
Marion Post Wolcott, 1941
Except for a little matter of timing, this would be no news: Republican feels entitled to apology—from the target of her husband's harrassment.That husband long since being given that gift of a lifetime spot, with nary a conflict to be seen here—
Virginia Thomas has long been active in Republican and conservative politics. But over the past year, she has assumed a more prominent role, founding a group called Liberty Central, which advertises itself as linked to the Tea Party, and raising funds from anonymous donors to oppose what she has called the leftist "tyranny" of the Obama administration and congressional Democrats.From Nina Totenberg's story this morning. I thought she also brought up Alito's plan to avoid the SOTU, but NPR has nothing posted about that.
I see references to Alito's saying he won't sit there "like a potted plant"—why bother going if he can't sass Obama. But today the phrasing I heard (or thought I heard, through morning brain fog) was that he refused to sit there "stoically."
Stoicism: good enough for the little people.
As we watch these vultures pick clean the remaining bones of a minimally functioning democracy.
Another FSA picture:
Royal Oak, Michigan.
Arthur S. Siegel, 1939
A long-ago demagogue claimed "Social Justice" as his motive.Our currently loudest one turns his followers against the very notion.
A philosophy very pleasing to the company he keeps.
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