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Monthly Archives: December 2015

Why am I not jittery?

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself Franklin Roosevelt What a quaint notion. I’m told by the New York Times that Obama recently addressed a “jittery” nation. I read elsewhere that more than half of us now want to get ourselves into a another quagmire in the Middle East, because doing so […]

This country is going bananas

So today I went to my bank (Chelsea Groton, a local bank that is not too big to fail) to deposit a check. All the tellers were wearing a button that notified me that it was okay to say “Merry Christmas” to them, as they wanted to keep Christ in Christmas. The probability is that […]

Cognitive dissonance

In case you are not familiar with the term, “cognitive dissonance” is defined as follows: In psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, performs an action that is contradictory to one or more beliefs, ideas […]

Who’s the greatest grifter of them all?

The evil stepmother’s magic mirror would have a tough time with this question, but I think Mike Huckabee is making a strong run for the title. He has branched out beyond politics in his hucksterism: Last year, a man named Brian Chambers announced a world-changing advance: An international research organization called the Health Sciences Institute […]

A tiny point of light

George the first promised a thousand of them, but they never seem to have appeared. However, there’s one point of light about this story, documenting some shady corporate entities funneling money into Jeb! Bush’s PAC: In February, a limited liability company called TH Holdings LLC donated $100,000 to Right to Rise, the super-PAC supporting Jeb […]