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Monthly Archives: November 2017

A foolish consistency

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Over the past few weeks the nation has engaged in a rather heated conversation about sexual harassment. Republicans have been their usual hypocritical selves. Many liberals, meanwhile, have bent over backward to avoid the charge of hypocrisy have embraced what I submit is a foolish consistency. The urge to consistency requires two things. First, we […]

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A % here and a % there and pretty soon you’re talking about real money

Sunday, November 19, 2017

It goes without saying that Paul Ryan and the Republicans are lying when they claim their tax bill is designed to benefit the middle class. Okay, some of them may not be lying. Some of them may be so stupid that they believe the bullshit Ryan is peddling but, same difference. If you’re a Member […]

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Nazis don’t really care about free speech

Sunday, November 19, 2017

I am going to beat a still living horse, the media’s persistent willingness to buy into the terminology of the right. We’ve grown so used to terms like “pro-life” that even many on the left use them precisely the way that the right wants them used. What brings this to mind, yet again, is this […]

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A mystery solved?

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Over the last day or so I have been completely mystified. Various Republicans have come out urging Roy Moore to withdraw from the Alabama Senate race. Some, such as Mitch McConnell, have even said that they believed his accusers. This all seemed strange to me. The man was already known to be a racist and […]

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Democrats: We can do this! (Lose, that is)

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Yet another indication that the Democrats are anxious to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory: Bipartisanship, long left for dead in Washington, has struck again. And Wall Street looks to be the winner. In the wake of the Equifax scandal, Congress has been under pressure to act. But the price of modest reforms in […]

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Learning lessons

Sunday, November 12, 2017

So, here’s an article at Truthout titled Conservatives Learn the Wrong Lesson From GOP Defeat in Virginia. First conservative mentioned is Ann Coulter: If the reaction from prominent right-wing media figures is any indication, conservatives are having a very hard time coping with the resounding loss of Republican candidate Ed Gillespie in the Virginia gubernatorial […]

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The Donald does something right

Friday, November 10, 2017

This is perplexing, to say the least: Almost eight months after Donald Trump was inaugurated, photos of the 45th president of the United States still do not appear in thousands of federal buildings — a delay that is especially odd, given Trump’s fondness for his own image. In a tradition dating back to the Civil […]

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The voters may get it, even if the media doesn’t

Thursday, November 9, 2017

One of my favorite bloggers is driftglass, who rather singlemindedly documents bothsiderism and media apologetics for the Republican Party, as he does so ably here. The thrust of the piece is to the effect that the recent wave election is being characterized as a renunciation of Trumpism, rather than a renunciation of the Republican Party. […]

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Trump delivers for Dems in Groton

Tuesday, November 7, 2017

This is, of course, a minor story, but in a way it may be significant. We had our local elections today. The Republicans have dominated the Town Council for something like thirty or more years, and most years they have a majority on the Board of Ed, though sometimes we’ve had a slim majority on […]

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We really don’t need this

Saturday, November 4, 2017

Donna Brazile has seen fit to reopen the wounds of the 2016 primary season in any apparent attempt to sell her new book. We really don’t need this, and I find it hard to believe that she is so hard up for money that she has to try to destroy the Democratic Party in order […]

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