
Bruce Walker
Freelance writer on culture, pop culture and public policy.
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1 week ago |
themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker
“Don’t say, ‘hate,’ say, ‘Dinner at eight!’ Let’s eat!” – The Firesign Theater. When you’re a hammer, everything is a potential nail. If you’re the disgraced Southern Poverty Law Center, the presumed nail is hate, as in the group’s annual Hate Map. Does anybody, besides its in-house lickspittles, take this group seriously any longer?
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2 weeks ago |
themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker
Happy 80th birthday, Pete Townshend! Longtime readers will know he’s my favorite songwriting rock-and-roller, placed high on a pedestal that includes Bob Dylan and Van Morrison (who belong to no other genre than the ones they created), any number of blues and jazz performers, and Frank Sinatra, who is also in a category all by himself.
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3 weeks ago |
themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker
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1 month ago |
themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker
Burt Lancaster in Elmer Gantry and The Rainmaker; George C. Scott in The Flim Flam Man; Robert Preston in The Music Man; and Joe Mantegna in any number of David Mamet projects: a shortlisted cinematic cadre of scoundrels and rogues, seeking to outsmart the common folk with deceit and treachery for a presumed payday.
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1 month ago |
themorningsun.com | Bruce Walker
How arson is caused by climate change is anybody’s guess, but when you’re paid to make tenuous or nonexistent connections, that will always be your default excuse. Responsibility for the blazes in North Carolina and California falls squarely on human bad actors, whether it’s sloppy forest management or evildoers excited by watching the world burn. But don’t tell that to Peter Sinclair, who has been turning up as a regular contributor to this fish wrap.
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