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The crew breaks down Wednesday night’s vice-presidential debate and talks a little poetry.
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In 2003 Glück was named the 12th US Poet Laureate. That same year, she was named the judge for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, a position she held until 2010. Her book of essays Proofs and Theories (1994) was awarded the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. In addition to the Pulitzer and Bollingen Prizes, she has received many awards and honors for her work, including the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, a Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize, the MIT Anniversary Medal, the Wallace Stevens Award, a National Humanities Medal, and a Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2020 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
We who will vote for Trump are not answering calls from pollsters, not because we are depressed; it’s because we lump polling companies in the same group with the mass media and we’re disgusted with them all and don’t want to have anything to do with them.
No democrat has said the word impeachment since February? Doesnt Nancy Pelosi count? or did she not actually say the word – and only alluded to it?
How can there be a peaceful transition of power after the Obama Administration?
The more we learn of the 2016 campaign the worse Hillary Clinton looks. She outspent her opponent directly 3+:1, plus soft money… She had the endorsement of every major newspaper, every A,B and C list celebrity. She was using the FBI to plant false opposition research in the media. The White House was coordinating a intelligence collection campaign, thats orders of magnitude more intrusive than Watergate… And yet still could not win.