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Sissy Willis

Chelsea-by-the-Sea

Beauty in unexpected places

Interests: Politics, culture wars, cats, the light fantastic

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A poet, a scholar and a mighty warrior

A great gentleman has gone to meet his maker. An empty place in our hearts. RIP #GreyphusTheMagnificent #GreyphusTheTerrible. #Gravitas #BestPurrboxEver. #Earnest. #DesktopCompanionAnimalParExcellence pic.twitter.com/AzPrIvt856 — Sissy Willis (@SissyWillis) February 1, 2019 Continue reading

Posted Mar 17, 2019 at sisu

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"A revival of tribalism in thinking and politics"

"Many people bitterly resent it when members of the other group hold power," notes former liberal mugged by reality Roger L. Simon: Members of the knowledge class tend to think that Republican leaders are simple-minded, uncultured morons. Members of the... Continue reading

Posted Sep 12, 2018 at sisu

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Present at the re-creation

Twitter buddy Pete602 caught old-style pols Rep. Adam Schiff and Sen. Diane Feinstein in the social-media headlights of a newly empowered electorate this morning: If Schiff and Feinstein want to see "Russian bots" they can look out the window. We... Continue reading

Posted Jan 24, 2018 at sisu

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One person's assimilation is another's appropriation

"Indigenous leaders from across the world requested that the UN outlaw cultural appropriation." Elizabeth Warren aka Fauxcahontas was unavailable for comment. "Mosaicist vs assimilationist: On the multiculti side, there were smug, self-congratulatory sermons scolding melting-pot types like ourselves for xenophobic/racist... Continue reading

Posted Jun 17, 2017 at sisu

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"A young ballsy girl in pigtails showed why the cowards of ISIS will never win"

Dear @ArianaGrande, I'm sorry. Love Piers. https://t.co/BNRQgXhmj6 pic.twitter.com/A3Hkr88mXx — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 5, 2017 "Last night you showed true grit and also why the cowards of ISIS will never win," writes British TV provocateur Piers Morgan in an open... Continue reading

Posted Jun 5, 2017 at sisu

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Pigs — and fracking — are a girl's best friend

"European ingenuity! Can't get access 2 a gun b/c of strict laws, buy yourself an attack pig. "Trump in Saudi tells me something: We lost the argument. But who rewired Trump?" tweets anti-cultural-jihad warrior Diana West this afternoon. We're with... Continue reading

Posted May 22, 2017 at sisu

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“Just a circle of people talking to themselves who have no f***ing idea what’s going on”*

"In some profound way, the election made clear, the national media just doesn’t get the nation it purportedly covers," writes a somewhat bemused Jack Shafer at Politico in "The Media Bubble Is Worse Than You Think." The “media bubble” trope... Continue reading

Posted Apr 25, 2017 at sisu

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"One thing people don’t quite get is that she is a living, breathing folk hero for millions of people around the country”

"Horrified critics of the president are often surprised to find that, in person, it’s very difficult to dislike Conway," writes Olivia Nuzzi in "Kellyanne Conway Is a Star: Not your star, perhaps. But that’s the point," New York Magazine's cover... Continue reading

Posted Mar 18, 2017 at sisu

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Hallmark Movies foretold Trump Nation

We know this in our soul. That thing they call "everyday Americans" LOVE the HallmarkChannel movies. Especially women. Beautiful parents who love their kids and their country. Heroine always ends up winning her man. Corny & romantic. What's not to... Continue reading

Posted Jan 28, 2017 at sisu

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Has Typepad jumped the shark?

From our March 3, 2009 post "Tiny performs Meowzart": Tiny inhabits the role of Queen of the Night singing "Der Hölle Rache" in Meowzart's The Magic Twig (German Die Zaubersweig). Listen here. Just checking to see if Typepad is as... Continue reading

Posted Sep 26, 2016 at sisu

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Mugged by reality: "The thought police are the democrats" says former democrat

Has this demonic image of President Obama been wiped — What, like with a cloth or something? — from the internet's memory bank? We ask because a Google search for "Obama crazed look" images rendered scant results, mostly a recurring... Continue reading

Posted Sep 23, 2016 at sisu

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The end of an era: Repost

In remembrance on this Father's Day, June 19, 2016, a repost from September 13, 2014: Goomp left this mortal coil yesterday afternoon. We three siblings knew the time was near. He'd withdrawn of late, unable to hear much of anything,... Continue reading

Posted Jun 19, 2016 at sisu

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In our mind's eye she is forever young: Repost

In honor of Grammy's birthday, September 8, 1899, a repost from September 08, 2007: Grammy, a magical word and a magical teller of tales of our childhood. She lived 93 years. Today is her birthday. She would have been 108... Continue reading

Posted Sep 8, 2015 at sisu

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Who's afraid of Virginia Postrel?

We can see the salt of the earth from our front porch in Chelsea-by-the-Sea. Here we thought it was a brilliant, pithy (140-or-fewer characters) philosophical insight into the way of the world, but intellectual icon Virginia Postrel was not amused... Continue reading

Posted Dec 8, 2014 at sisu

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Thank you, dearest

Commented Sep 13, 2014 on The end of an era at sisu

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The end of an era

Goomp left this mortal coil yesterday afternoon. We three siblings knew the time was near. He'd withdrawn of late, unable to hear much of anything, not even asking about the cats last time our sis visited him at the "home"... Continue reading

Posted Sep 13, 2014 at sisu

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Chuck Todd "didn't like having Mozart associated with the Nazis"

"Let me, let me free-ee-eeze again to death." 17th-century British composer Henry Purcell's rending-of-garments "The Cold Scene" from "King Arthur" energizes dancers' evocative kinetics (above) expressing the storming of the beaches of Normandy during controversial D-Day70 commemoration presentation yesterday at... Continue reading

Posted Jun 7, 2014 at sisu

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His major coup "was getting women to smoke"

"With no phone to call for help, I used my bobsled push training to break out," quipped Olympian Johnny Quinn this morning, adding his voice to the latest Twitter trending topic, #SochiProblems. We love Quinn's All-American, can-do (pun intended) solution... Continue reading

Posted Feb 8, 2014 at sisu

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Yale law professor prefers not to be confused with the facts

"There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?" we quoted Schopenhaer a few years back on "the... Continue reading

Posted Oct 18, 2013 at sisu

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"Are these jerks trying to hurt us on purpose?"

People, I am not making this up pic.twitter.com/sYFQsxqEEr — John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) October 2, 2013 "Because of the federal government shutdown, this National Park Service area is closed, except for 1st Amendment activities," reads the sign on a single barricade... Continue reading

Posted Oct 2, 2013 at sisu

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Estee Lauder's Private Collection. Subtle, almost sweet, discreet ... Yumm

Commented Aug 4, 2013 on Win a Signed Copy of Alyssa Harad's Coming to My Senses at Deep Glamour: At the Intersection of Imagination & Desire

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Armed and dangerous ...

"Let Facts be submitted to a candid world," from the archives July 4, 2008. Continue reading

Posted Jul 5, 2013 at sisu

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Stand with Rand: Tea Party Turks and the filibuster heard 'round the world

"My Tea Party cup runneth over," we twittered Mark Tapscott this morning in appreciation of his bracing filibuster post "Is Rand Paul America's William Wallace or Robert the Bruce?" wherein the DC Examiner columnist compares the generational struggle between Young... Continue reading

Posted Mar 8, 2013 at sisu

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Little Kitteh in Toyland

The kitteh was nestled all snug and well fed … While visions of ornaments danced in her head. Continue reading

Posted Dec 23, 2012 at sisu

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Con-Man-in-Chief: Barack Obama's "masterful marketing of emotions"

"Stephen Colbert sent me an email, and Stephen Colbert is the young person's Oprah," the sophomorically witty young Obama voter above right — signalling membership in the tribe of cool! — answered The Blaze reporter Benny Johnson's question "What issues... Continue reading

Posted Nov 11, 2012 at sisu

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