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Monthly Archives: November 2015

How is a Bill O’Reilly like a stopped clock?

Sunday, November 8, 2015

Answer: not at all. O’Reilly is only right once a year. But that rare event may have happened recently. George Will is in a kerfuffle because in “his” latest book, O’Reilly claims that Ronald Reagan’s Alzheimer’s disease was affecting him during his presidency to such an extent that his advisers were thinking of invoking the […]

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A ray of hope

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

So, yesterday was a bit of a disaster, locally, though we intend to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and come back swinging. 2016 should be a good year, or, if not, it should spell the end of the Republic. But things were not bad everywhere, and one election in particular gives reason to hope […]

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Not news, but fit to print

Monday, November 2, 2015

The New York Times is running a series of articles about the fact that the giant corporations in this country have successfully opted out of the civil justice system by making consent to arbitration a part of every contract. I recently bought a hard drive, and saw some fine print to the effect that merely […]

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Republicans whine, Dems silent

Sunday, November 1, 2015

It’s a given that Democrats are better at governing than Republicans, though these days that’s not saying much. That has been the case at least throughout my lifetime, but it has not always been the case that Republicans were far better at playing politics than Democrats. A couple of days ago the Republican Party told […]

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