Goodbye, Mr. Duvall
It is turning out to be an interesting year.
I was in the middle of teaching a class when a pop-up appeared on the screen announcing the death of Mr. Robert Seldon Duvall (yes, that was his full name). I was in the middle of a discussion on the obsession we have with winning when it comes to sports (the Winter Olympics was a theme), and I felt as though things were coming full circle. We had already lost Gene Hackman last year, and along with that titan, it feels though one particular golden age has closed off to be replaced by...?
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A cult is a very apt description...
Oooo, that last line, I especially loved that!
What often gets me about the criminal, is that he truly is the embodiment of the banality of evil. Perhaps Putin has better propaganda, but that dictator strikes me as intelligently evil while Trump, is simply a a loudmouth bully that never left the playground
Wanton is right. Somebody stop him!