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If you think it would be very obvious, but suddenly it doesnt seem obvious. youll read that some plumber in wichita is choked to death from covid alone in a hospital room and youll watch social media celebrate his death. he wasnt vaccinated, he deserved it. some preacher in florida will die leaving behind not just a grieving family, but skeptical of the covid vaccine. suddenly his death becomes a morality play for the rest of us. this is what you get! this is the most corrosive possible way to a...

In England circa 1380, a troupe of traveling actors makes its way across the medieval landscape, where to go 20 miles from home was to enter a world of strangers. In London at about the same time, Geoffrey Chaucer was writing about another group on the road -- pilgrims on their way to Canterbury. His Knight, learning from the journey, declared: "This world is but a thoroughfare full of woe, And we be pilgrims, passing to and fro. Death is an end to every worldly sore." The actors arr...

The era for the first time, america felt an obligation to social morality. you had to have a sense that in gods hand was involved in social relations, fighting racism and so forth so in many ways, 60s addict this idea of social morality to our culture and it transformed the whole racial issue in america into something of a morality play. a plate of guilt and against innocence and we are still in that. in that format, guilt is what america, specifically what white america is supposed to go for

On a story we covered last week about a man in missouri name kevin strickland. in the seventies, 1978 when he was 18 years old he was prosecuted for capital murder, in a terrible crime, shooting deaths of three people in missouri. he was convicted, largely on the strength of a single eyewitness who said it was him. kevin strickland is still in prison today he turned 62 years old yesterday, hes been there again since he was a teenager, hes serving life in prison. but his case is now something lik...

Covered last week about a man in missouri named kevin strickland. in 1970 when he was just 28 years old, kevin strickland was convicted of capital murder. he was convicted of a single eyewitness who said it was him. hes been there since he was a teenager and serving life in prison. but his case is something out of a fable or morality play. he has said consistently from day one that he did not commit that crime. hes not alone in saying that, though. in 2009 the one eyewitness in the case complete...

Prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. im going to give you a quick update on a story we covered last week about a man in missouri named kevin strickland. in 1978 when he was just 18 years old, kevin strickland was convicted of capital murder. shooting three people in missouri. he was convicted of a single eyewitness who said it was him. he is still in prison today. he turned 62 years old yesterday. hes been there since he was a teenager and serving life in prison. but his cas...

Staff Reports Feb 24, 2021 TIFTON, Ga. – Seven Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College students — one of them from Moultrie — and one community member have been selected as cast members for the Baldwin Players’ upcoming performance.  Baldwin Players’ Director Brian Ray, a professor of English and Theater at ABAC, said the cast members will be playing characters in a film version of three separate morality stories. The actors will appear in at least two of the stories, a...

Not to put false testimony before a jury. so you had the u.s. attorneys office in d.c. endorsing this statement by rick gates that refutes donald trumps sworn testimony to robert mueller, chris. >> maya, this is morality play. this guy wasnt a good guy to begin with. hes a dirty stricter by trade. if he gets a bad verdict tomorrow were talking at his age which would be a long sentence. >> unless hes getting a pardon, which would be politically unwise for trump i think. but its very hard to under...

Who wrote an entire book on how the titans of finance escaped criminal charges in the aftermath of the financial crisis. it really does read like an almost over the top morality play. >> right. and it keeps getting more and more so, right, when you read about this private island that he had, never mind the bizarre temple it seems he built on this island. but the fact that it was known locally as pedophile island, and yet as far as we know, it was never searched. and, you know, the thing about je...

The other team. but its also because epstein seems to be the perfect example of a certain kind of elite impunity, those in power getting away with things, and that has been one of the defining features of our era and an engine of discontent and anti-establishment behavior that continues to royal all politics to this day. or as michelle goldberg put it in her latest column, if it were fiction it would be both too sorted and too on the nose to be believable like a season domestic violence penned b...