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Monthly Archives: February 2017

Lessons from Italy

Monday, February 13, 2017

My son gave me a subscription to Jacobin Magazine for Christmas. It’s a quarterly, and I received my first post-election issue today. I didn’t read much in the last issue, because it was pretty much premised on the certain Clinton victory. Unfortunately, I can’t link to the article about which I’m writing, as it isn’t […]

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Happy Birthday, Abie Baby

Sunday, February 12, 2017

Today is the natal day of the greatest American president. The fact that he became president at all should give us hope. He succeeded a string of mediocrities who had, at best, stood by while the nation careened toward destruction. What were the odds that a man of his abilities would occupy the White House […]

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Democrat’s worries; no surprises here

Sunday, February 12, 2017

This is the sort of thing that drives me crazy about the Democratic Party: At congressional town hall meetings, on the patchy grass of the National Mall, and in the flood of comments posted on Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Facebook page, it seems painfully obvious: Liberals are getting energized and exercised. They have found a rallying […]

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Yet another modest proposal

Friday, February 10, 2017

The Democrats must be doing something right, as the Republicans are beginning to give them well meaning advice, about how all this resistance is just such a bad idea. You always know that Republicans are running scared when they start telling Democrats where they are going wrong. Anyway, along the resistance front, an idea occurred […]

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How do you measure success?

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

This is interesting: “Yemen has withdrawn permission for the United States to run special operations and ground missions against suspected terrorists in the wake of the recent raid there that claimed so many civilian lives,” NBC News’ Kristen Welker asked Spicer during his daily press briefing. “Do you stand by your assessment that it is […]

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What would the Bard think of all this?

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

I stumbled upon this article from the American Prospect today, and I thought I would pass it along to my legions of fans. If you’re a fan of Shakespeare’s it will interest you, as it takes on the question of how the Bard would have treated the Donald, and what, if any characters are similar […]

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Alternative facts in the making

Monday, February 6, 2017

You have to hand it to them. When it comes to manufacturing facts, the Republicans have no peers in the real world, and they’re rapidly catching up to the fictional Big Brother. Latest case in point: Vice President Mike Pence will lead a commission to investigate voter registration issues, President Trump said Sunday. In an […]

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It’s a fact free, fact free, fact free world

Sunday, February 5, 2017

The Trumpers may have brought the world of alternative facts to fruition, but that doesn’t mean it started with them. Over the course of the last six months or so I’ve noticed a new type of spam in my office in-box. During that time you would be amazed at the number of awards that I […]

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Noted in passing, another impeachable offence

Friday, February 3, 2017

It was widely reported that Trump named Steve Bannon (or more accurately, Bannon named Steve Bannon) to the National Security Council. The law provides that certain people are automatically members of the NSC, and others must be confirmed by Congress. Apparently, Bannon is so unpopular that even the present lickspittle Senate Republicans can’t be counted […]

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Winston Smith takes up his pen

Friday, February 3, 2017

Lots of folks are having fun with Kellyanne Conway’s latest alternative fact about the Bowling Green Massacre. She’ll probably have the last laugh. After a few days pass, in the alternative universe of millions of Trumpists, it will have happened. UPDATE: Just because it’s funny. 

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