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A simple solution

Saturday, August 22, 2020

This should come as no surprise: In an apparent effort to make his daily news conferences even more like campaign events than they already are, the White House press office has been packing the briefing room with supporters of President Donald Trump from far-right media outlets who can be relied on to toss him softball […]

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A sign of hope?

Friday, June 26, 2020

Is it possible that both siderism is dying a slow death, and that it’s demise will be brought about from the bottom of the media heap? Right now, I know of only one person in the national media who doesn’t play the both siderist game, and that would be Paul Krugman (see, e.g., today’s column), […]

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Political Science, Monty Python Style

Monday, June 15, 2020

Shame on anyone reading this who is not a devotee of Crooks & Liars, and has therefore already read the post and watched the video I’m posting here, but for anyone who hasn’t seen it, it is, in my opinion, must see. Fox News’ coverage of the Seattle protests has taken another hit after the […]

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The Day Opines

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

The New London Day has called on Roseanne Kotowski to resign from the Groton Representative Town Meeting, and State Rep. Craig Fishbein to resign as well, since like Roseanne, he has outed himself as a racist. I’ve written about Roseanne here and here. To briefly recap her story: she sent an email to Groton Town […]

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Time for another NY Times Op-Ed?

Friday, June 5, 2020

The New York Times has taken some well deserved shit for running an Op-Ed by Tom Cotton, in which the fascist Senator from Arkansas argued for more fascism, i.e., that we should unleash the armed forces on protestors with whom he disagrees. The Times defended itself initially on the grounds that it has an obligation […]

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C’mon Donald, You’re not supposed to say this out loud

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Gosh, the very stable genius just let a cat out of a bag, not that anyone hadn’t heard the cat mewling away in there. I mean, I thought Republicans were supposed to pretend that Fox is just another television network with a bunch of straight shooters, but here’s the genius tweeting us differently: Many will […]

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Stockholm Syndrome

Friday, April 24, 2020

I am beginning to suspect that our national media suffers from a variant of Stockholm Syndrome. Not precisely the same, but somewhat. Perhaps we should call it What-If-Obama-Had-Said-Or-Done-This-Itis. The media has reacted to constant abuse from a certain stable genius by refusing to acknowledge the obvious, and pretending that his insanity is just Trump being […]

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A gross injustice

Thursday, January 9, 2020

Major League’s Baseball Commissioner has initiated an investigation of the Boston Red Sox for sign stealing via electronic means. The entire investigation is a travesty. What kind of country is this, where you can steal elections but not signs? Not only that, consider this distinction without a difference: Sign-stealing that relies on nothing but human discernment and […]

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Nothing much to see here!

Friday, November 8, 2019

Here’s another one for the What if Obama (or Hillary) had Done it? file. A state judge ordered President Trump to pay $2 million in damages to nonprofit groups on Thursday after the president admitted misusing money raised by the Donald J. Trump Foundation to promote his presidential bid, pay off business debts and purchase a portrait of himself […]

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Things that make you swear and curse

Thursday, September 26, 2019

As Eric Idle wrote: Some things in life are bad They can really make you mad Other things just make you swear and curse This is one of those swear and curse things. We all know that the New York Times sends its reporters into diners in the hinterlands to scout out unrepentant Trump voters and […]

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