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Category Archives: Creeping Totalitarianism

Open criminality is the new norm

Saturday, September 17, 2022

Sometimes things move much too fast for someone who isn’t paid to blog. When I first heard about the stunt DeSantis pulled sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, it seemed to me that there was something, you know, illegal about it. My first thought was that it was kidnapping. I didn’t practice criminal law, and even […]

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Stop me if I’ve bloviated on this before

Saturday, September 3, 2022

My wife and I have a little daily ritual. I read her the on-this-date entries from my diary. While Trump was in office I would normally note his crime of the day, but I usually skip the Trump stuff so far as what I read to my wife. But I read them to myself, and […]

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Sorry Adam, history is written by the winners

Sunday, July 10, 2022

I give Adam Kinzinger credit for sticking up for the democratic process, but I think there’s a good possibility he’s wrong about this: I think what’s most important is, again, what does history say in five or 10 years? Because I can guarantee — well, I can get about as close as I can to […]

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Reflections on the Fourth

Monday, July 4, 2022

I’ve been writing on this blog now for 17 years or so. When it all started there were a lot of us lefty bloggers here in Connecticut, and most of them have gone on to other things, but I’ve stuck to it, though the posts come daily no more. A lot has changed during all […]

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The court will find a way

Thursday, June 23, 2022

When I first read this column from the New York Times I thought: Hey, this is great: What a week so far for conservatives. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court struck down a Maine law that prohibited religious private schools from receiving taxpayer dollars. And on Thursday, it invalidated a New York State gun safety law […]

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The rule of law continues to crumble

Saturday, May 14, 2022

The courts, well stocked with right wing nutjobs, particularly in the Confederacy, seem to be competing with each other to see who can make the most outlandish decisions, discarding not only years of precedence, but basic legal principles that even a child could understand. The latest example (See also) is a decision from the 5th […]

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More on the post Roe world

Thursday, May 5, 2022

Since my post of a few days ago I’ve read a lot of speculation about which precedents the court will destroy next. Most of the speculation is sound, but some should give one pause, if one believed that the right wing members of the court have even a shred of intellectual honesty. For instance, a […]

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Where we may go after Roe goes down

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Yesterday we learned (no need to link, everyone knows about it by now) that the Supreme Court is planning to reverse Roe v. Wade. It’s actually a bit of a surprise to me, as I expected that they would simply gradually chip away at it until it was all but overruled, but never expressly so. […]

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The F-Word makes an appearance

Friday, April 29, 2022

It has been apparent for some time that the Republican Party is dominated by people who prefer fascism to democracy. Trump has been fairly up front about it. However, the media has been reluctant (is that the right word, or is “terrified” a better choice?) to drop the F-word in connection with the Republican Party. […]

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Tucker, the 21st century fifth columnist

Sunday, March 13, 2022

So, it appears that Putin considers Tucker Carlson to be one of his most valuable propagandists: On March 3, as Russian military forces bombed Ukrainian cities as part of Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of his neighbor, the Kremlin sent out talking points to state-friendly media outlets with a request: Use more Tucker Carlson. “It is […]

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