Robert Lipsyte

1 month ago | smirkingchimp.com | Robert Lipsyte

— from TomDispatch If the overwhelming deluge from the Trumpian firehose of lies, threats, incompetency, illegal actions, and surreality is sweeping you off your feet, driving you to bedridden depression, leaving you passive and breathlessly unable to mount a response, much less resistance, please get into the huddle, take a time-out, and listen up to your Jock Culture coach. (That’s me, of course!)You need some distraction.

1 month ago | commondreams.org | Robert Lipsyte

If the overwhelming deluge from the Trumpian firehose of lies, threats, incompetency, illegal actions, and surreality is sweeping you off your feet, driving you to bedridden depression, leaving you passive and breathlessly unable to mount a response, much less resistance, please get into the huddle, take a time-out, and listen up to your Jock Culture coach. (That’s me, of course!)You need some distraction.

1 month ago | nationofchange.org | Robert Lipsyte

If the overwhelming deluge from the Trumpian firehose of lies, threats, incompetency, illegal actions, and surreality is sweeping you off your feet, driving you to bedridden depression, leaving you passive and breathlessly unable to mount a response, much less resistance, please get into the huddle, take a time-out, and listen up to your Jock Culture coach. (That’s me, of course!)You need some distraction.

2 months ago | shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com | Robert Lipsyte

History comes joyously alive with a dozen old-timers around a long table chortling through stacks of antique postcards and photographs. They are finding pictures of grandparents and houses they once lived in. Codger leans in toward a woman waving a group portrait of a 1930’s Shelter Island high school basketball team. “A little before your time,” he says gallantly. “But I know the names, they were my neighbors.” She winks and begins a long story.

Mar 24, 2025 | shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com | Robert Lipsyte

Like so many people he’s been talking with lately, Codger is alarmed by the state of the nation and asks, “What should we do?”The answers have ranged from wearing a pin with the Walt Whitman line, “Resist Much, Obey Little,” which seems too little, to not paying this year’s income tax, which seems too much, considering the opposition’s capacity for revenge.