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Monthly Archives: October 2016

Friday Night Music Briefly returns

Friday, October 14, 2016

After all, he won the Nobel Prize. I don’t know if he deserved it, but he didn’t not deserve it, if you know what I mean. It’s not all that easy to find acceptable videos of Dylan doing his own music, especially from the early days. I had to reject what I could find of […]

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The Donald Implodes

Thursday, October 13, 2016

All of this stuff about Trump would be really funny if there wasn’t still a chance he could win. (This is America, after all. Remember what P.T. Barnum said) But, even so, it’s still funny. A few random observations today. In the “even a stopped clock” department: I came across this about Steve Bannon, the […]

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Trump’s supporters explained

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

I think Juan Cole is on to something. He asks, why would anyone back Trump? His answer is persuasive, and worth reading, which you can do here. His argument is that Trump’s adherents, particularly the men, want to be Trump. Read the whole thing, but here’s a taste: But I nevertheless think that the men […]

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He’s got my vote

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Well, not really. I have fond memories of the Spaceman, Bill Lee, former Red Sox pitcher. It is my firm belief that when the Red Sox went into their 1978 tailspin, which ended in the infamous Bucky Dent homer (may his name forever live in infamy), Bill Lee could have stopped the slide had the […]

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The Great Debate

Monday, October 10, 2016

By any reasonable measure, Hillary “won” the debate yesterday. My general sense is that while the mainstream media wanted to give it to Donald, they’ve been restrained by the reactions of ordinary people. The Donald was not a pleasant person to look at last night, and Hillary must have been a bit creeped out as […]

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Why now?

Saturday, October 8, 2016

It’s been a remarkable 24 hours. It’s been about that long since this happened: (Couldn’t resist putting it up again. I think it’s brilliant) Since the recording was released, Republicans first went with the tried and true “I condemn what he said, but I’m still voting for him” shtick, but as the day went on, […]

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Daily News having fun

Saturday, October 8, 2016

Can’t help but agree that this is a funny front page. The Daily News used to be fairly right wing, but I guess they saw an opening when Murdoch took over the Post. Anyway, this ranks up there with that Newt Gingrich front page from years ago.

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Debate watching event

Saturday, October 8, 2016

The Groton Democratic Town Committee will be hosting a debate watching event at its headquarters at 774 Long Hill Road in Groton on Sunday. It starts whenever the debate starts, I guess. We have one of those giant TVs. It’s a pot-luck affair, so anyone who brings food will be quite welcome. It is not […]

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An interesting legal question

Friday, October 7, 2016

My wife and I own property in Chester, Vermont, so I have the Chester Telegraph‘s newsfeed on my RSS reader. Chester is right down the road from Grafton, where they used to make Grafton cheeses. That’s right, the factory is gone, as is the outlet shop, leaving nary a thing behind. It did not, however, […]

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Is there a way to resign?

Friday, October 7, 2016

As a white male, I find it rather disheartening that I am a member of the only demographic that supports Donald Trump, unless you count white people generally, but that’s a bit unfair to white women. You have to wonder, is there something in the DNA of white males that makes them particularly susceptible to […]

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