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Nothing new under the sun

Friday, January 13, 2023

My professorial son got me Stacy Schiff’s The Revolutionary Sam Adams for Christmas. It’s actually the third Adams biography I’ve read, but being the geezer that I am, I can’t recall whether the previous biographies emphasized the part of Adam’s history about which I’m writing now. Adams was a prolific writer/propagandist. He started what might […]

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Stop me if I’ve bloviated on this before

Saturday, September 3, 2022

My wife and I have a little daily ritual. I read her the on-this-date entries from my diary. While Trump was in office I would normally note his crime of the day, but I usually skip the Trump stuff so far as what I read to my wife. But I read them to myself, and […]

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Apparently it doesn’t take much to make a (Republican) hero

Thursday, August 18, 2022

All three of the newspapers to which we subscribe ran articles today hyping Liz Cheney, and bemoaning what her primary loss means to the Republican Party. This from the New London Day/ AP: Liz Cheney’s resounding primary defeat marks the end of an era for the Republican Party as well as her own family legacy, […]

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There are 49 other Manchins we never hear about

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

This link should bring you to a number of Letters to the Editor at the New York Times, the first of which makes a point I’ve ranted at my wife about. The press is once again making Biden’s inability to deal with the climate crisis all about the loathsome Joe Manchin. As the letter writer […]

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A bit of a surprise yesterday, and…

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

And some more or less random observations. First, to the surprise. I’ve been watching the January 6th hearings on my IPad, and I think they’ve been quite useful, but until yesterday nothing I heard surprised me. Most of it was already known, and what wasn’t already known fit so neatly into the Trumpian pattern that […]

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It’s okay to support a dictator if you’re a Republican

Monday, February 28, 2022

I have nothing original to say about the Ukraine situation, except to add my voice to those of others who have pointed out that Putin, besides being a very powerful man, is a very mentally ill man. Maybe that’s a prerequisite to obtaining power these days. See e.g, the very stable genius. Anyway, one thing […]

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At the risk of repeating myself…

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

I get about 100 fundraising emails a day. Today I noticed the subject line on one, which read: “The media is not on our side”. It was from a group called No Dem Left Behind and the text went on to acknowledge that the subject line was no news to anyone. The argument put forward […]

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Do I repeat myself? Very well then I repeat myself.

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

While I’m too lazy to gather the links, I ask any reader who drops by to rest assured this is not the first time I am beating this woefully dead horse. I was moved to this repetion when I stumbled upon this New York Times article in my RSS feed. The header? Biden Scales Back […]

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Cue the Outrage

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Time for some outrage on the right! Surely in their continuing crusade against cancel culture ! they’ll have something to say about this: Comcast is helping Fox News kill Americans with anti-vaccination propaganda by refusing to air a new ad from The Lincoln Project. … Comcast refused to air The Lincoln Project ad because, “An […]

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Worth reading

Friday, June 11, 2021

The Boston Globe is in the process of publishing a series of editorials containing its recommendations to prevent future presidents from engaging in the criminality in which the former guy engaged. It is well worth reading. Oddly enough, while the daily paper is only up to the fourth editorial, you can read all of them […]

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