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Kenn Shapiro

@freshrhetoric.com
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Commentary. Opinion. Thought. Also, at times, Humor (though without all that annoying laughter).

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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 21/04/2026
Written nine years ago, during his first term.
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Flailing In the Thrall of An Incoherent Haze
Sometime probably during the latter part of 1997 (or thereabouts), as I was browsing through a national newsmagazine (I think it was US News and World Report, but I can’t say for sure), I came acro…
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 21/04/2026
Written nine years ago, during his first term.
freshrhetoric.com
Flailing In the Thrall of An Incoherent Haze
Sometime probably during the latter part of 1997 (or thereabouts), as I was browsing through a national newsmagazine (I think it was US News and World Report, but I can’t say for sure), I came acro…
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 21/04/2026
Written nine years ago, during his first term.
freshrhetoric.com
Flailing In the Thrall of An Incoherent Haze
Sometime probably during the latter part of 1997 (or thereabouts), as I was browsing through a national newsmagazine (I think it was US News and World Report, but I can’t say for sure), I came acro…
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 21/04/2026
Written nine years ago, during his first term.
freshrhetoric.com
Flailing In the Thrall of An Incoherent Haze
Sometime probably during the latter part of 1997 (or thereabouts), as I was browsing through a national newsmagazine (I think it was US News and World Report, but I can’t say for sure), I came acro…
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 28/08/2025
Little known fact: Before Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, anyone buying a mattress in late August/early September had to pay full price.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 31/07/2025
Note to dumpling vendors everywhere: Deny Dershowitz at your peril!
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 31/07/2025
Note to dumpling vendors everywhere: Deny Dershowitz at your peril!
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 31/07/2025
Note to dumpling vendors everywhere: Deny Dershowitz at your peril!
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Alan Dershowitz Says He’s Suing ‘Bigoted Vendor’ After Being Denied Pierogi
Alan Dershowitz said he is suing a Martha's Vineyard food vendor who refused to serve the former Harvard Law professor pierogi because of his politics.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 23/07/2025
The piece reveals that behind his long-displayed second-rate intellect is a first-rate, almost ghoulish, level of callousness.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 22/07/2025
Floriduh.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 06/07/2025
What a scathingly beautiful and beautifully scathing piece of writing.
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Opinion | The Pointless Triumph of a Hapless President
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 04/07/2025
All those masks needed to enforce our immigration laws don't come cheap.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 04/07/2025
All those masks needed to enforce our immigration laws don't come cheap.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 03/07/2025
So minions gild his droppings As his minders bide his whims, And lonely, In the harbor, Lady’s fabled torch bedims.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 03/07/2025
So minions gild his droppings As his minders bide his whims, And lonely, In the harbor, Lady’s fabled torch bedims.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 03/07/2025
So minions gild his droppings As his minders bide his whims, And lonely, In the harbor, Lady’s fabled torch bedims.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 03/07/2025
So minions gild his droppings As his minders bide his whims— And lonely, In the harbor, Lady’s fabled torch bedims.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 02/07/2025
So minions gild his droppings As his minders bide his whims— And lonely, In the harbor, Lady’s fabled torch bedims.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 23/06/2025
In the past, an armed person wearing a mask was usually up to no good. That’s still true today.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 23/06/2025
In the past, an armed person wearing a mask was usually up to no good. That’s still true today.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 23/06/2025
Both are true.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 19/06/2025
Philosophical question in this era of social media: If I don't have a podcast, do I exist?
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 18/06/2025
In the past, an armed person wearing a mask was usually up to no good. That’s still true today.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 18/06/2025
From the article: “While he opposes much of Mr. Trump’s agenda, Mr. Obama believes that offering a steady stream of criticism of the administration would dilute the power of his voice, [per sources].” But the fire is raging now—will his voice have any power when all that’s left is ash?
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 18/06/2025
From the article: “While he opposes much of Mr. Trump’s agenda, Mr. Obama believes that offering a steady stream of criticism of the administration would dilute the power of his voice, [per sources].” But the fire is raging now—will his voice have any power when all that’s left is ash?
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 17/06/2025
In what position or office has Rubio ever been relevant?
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 17/06/2025
DJT is a true statesman—in a world where "states" refers to a mammal's posterior, and "man" refers to the orifice on that posterior.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 17/06/2025
DJT is a true statesman—in a world where "states" refers to a mammal's posterior, and "man" refers to the orifice on that posterior.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 17/06/2025
DJT is a true statesman—in a world where "states" refers to a mammal's posterior, and "man" refers to the orifice on that posterior.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 17/06/2025
Spoken like a true statesman—in a world where "states" refers to a mammal's posterior, and "man" refers to the orifice on that posterior.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 17/06/2025
Spoken like a true statesman—in a world where "states" refers to a mammal's posterior, and "man" refers to the orifice on that posterior.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 16/06/2025
One might be inclined to think NYT's clumsy, indecipherable word-hash was the product of artificial intelligence, though I think artificial absurdity (or maybe genuine, intentional absurdity) might be more to blame.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 16/06/2025
One might be inclined to think this clumsy, indecipherable word-hash was the product of artificial intelligence, though I think artificial absurdity (or maybe genuine, intentional absurdity) might be more to blame.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Our Advice to Voters in a Vexing Race for New York Mayor
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 16/06/2025
One might be inclined to think this clumsy, indecipherable word-hash was the product of artificial intelligence, though I think artificial absurdity (or maybe genuine, intentional absurdity) might be more to blame.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 14/06/2025
As usual with Wolfe, apropos and profound. Props to you for recalling and sharing this excerpt.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 12/06/2025
Mightn’t this be ironic, if not also predictable, that the person responsible for the degradation of a societal economic crown is the one lusting after his own personal piece of bejeweled headwear?
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The dollar's crown is slipping, and fast
The dollar has sunk to its lowest in three years as rapidly changing U.S. trade policy unsettles markets and expectations build for Federal Reserve rate cuts, fuelling outflows from the world's biggest economy.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 12/06/2025
Mightn’t this be ironic, if not also predictable, that the person responsible for the degradation of a societal economic crown is the one lusting after his own personal piece of bejeweled headwear?
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 10/06/2025
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 10/06/2025
You may be right.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 09/06/2025
I share your disdain, of course, but I'd amend your time frame to "ever."
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 09/06/2025
We may well be on the verge of a Kent State moment. Scary times, but perhaps a blind miscalculation by the MAGAs.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 09/06/2025
We may well be on the verge of a Kent State moment. Scary times, but perhaps a blind miscalculation by the MAGAs.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 09/06/2025
We may well be on the verge of a Kent State moment. Scary times, but perhaps a blind miscalculation by the MAGAs.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 09/06/2025
We may well be on the verge of a Kent State moment. Scary times, but perhaps a blind miscalculation by the MAGAs.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 09/06/2025
We may well be on the verge of a Kent State moment. Scary times, but perhaps a blind miscalculation by the MAGAs.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 09/06/2025
We may well be on the verge of a Kent State moment. Scary times, but perhaps a blind miscalculation by the MAGAs.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 09/06/2025
We may well be on the verge of a Kent State moment. Scary times, but perhaps a blind miscalculation by the MAGAs.
theguardian.com
We are witnessing the first stages of Trump’s police state | Robert Reich
The national guard’s deployment in Los Angeles sets the US on a familiar authoritarian pathway. History shows the results
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 09/06/2025
We may well be on the verge of a Kent State moment. Scary times, but perhaps a blind miscalculation by the MAGAs.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 29/05/2025
A very thoughtful and necessary piece. Thank you for sharing.
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Kenn Shapiro @freshrhetoric.com · 29/05/2025
To all within DC and its environs for whom The Kennedy Center has become too Trumpified, you have an alternative. The Strathmore, just up the road in North Bethesda, is a wonderful venue with a top-quality calendar. Check it out.
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Washington Performing Arts ditches Kennedy Center, expands Strathmore offerings
The Strathmore in North Bethesda is among alternate venues for upcoming performances by Washington Performing Arts.
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