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Monthly Archives: October 2017

Worse Than Both-siderism

Monday, October 9, 2017

A lot of left wing blogs vent about the media’s penchant for “both-siderism”; defined perhaps as the media’s reflexive need to assign blame to “both sides” for anything happening in our culture, even when there is no objective basis for so doing. Broadly speaking, the media feels the need to blame both sides for the […]

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Trump plays half dimensional chess

Sunday, October 8, 2017

This is all over the internet I guess, but for my purposes this description, from the Palmer report, will do. At around 10:00am eastern time, Trump posted a factually questionable three-part tweet about Corker: “Senator Bob Corker “begged” me to endorse him for re-election in Tennessee. I said “NO” and he dropped out (said he […]

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Can’t make this stuff up

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Just thought I’d pass this on. If you ever get into an argument with a gun nut, which I don’t recommend, ask them to justify this: There’s no telling how many guns we have in America—and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The […]

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Random thoughts on yet another massacre

Monday, October 2, 2017

A few observations, probably unoriginal, about the Las Vegas shootings. As Chris Murphy pointed out, the predictable braying about the prayers of NRA supporting politicians being with the victims is becoming increasingly annoying. The stench of hypocrisy is overwhelming. It has already come from Trump, and the stench from that quarter is almost unbearable. As […]

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