Eyes on the national trainwreck has been irresistible

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Gadfly’s attention for the past 5 days has been fixed on the national level. He’s sure he’s not alone. Dramatic events there have for a time eclipsed local news. But It’s time for the Gadfly to try to find his normal again.

Published by The Bethlehem Gadfly

Edward J. Gallagher, Bethlehem immigrant, retired, nearly 50 years as Professor of American Literature at Lehigh University, known as "Dr. G" and "Conan the Grammarian" to students, whose virtual world avatar "EdwardScholarhands" stares at you here, has reinvented himself as the Bethlehem Gadfly.

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2 thoughts on “Eyes on the national trainwreck has been irresistible”

  1. Agree! But it’s also amazing to see all the attention to the crimes of insurrection and sedition coupled with arguments that ‘we need to move on and look forward, not look back.’ Are they extending the same privilege to the 2.2 million people in US jails & prisons now? Or is only white supremacists who get the privilege, never POC.

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