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Told you so

Friday, February 8, 2019

Almost two weeks ago (ages in Trump time), I observed that although Trump’s followers would never admit they were scammed, they’d be more than willing to admit that they’ve been betrayed. Betrayal is, of course, exactly what happens to you after you’ve been conned, but it’s easy to talk yourself into believing there’s a distinction, […]

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There’s a word for that

Monday, February 4, 2019

Erik Prince is once more in the news. One must truly wonder about how any given two parents could raise siblings as loathsome as he and Betsy DeVos, but pondering that is for another day. This time he’s been caughttrying to make money by helping China persecute Muslims: But Mr. Prince scrambled on Friday to distance […]

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Who could have known Roger Stone was actually guilty?

Friday, January 25, 2019

We woke up to the good news (culled from Twitter by my wife) that Roger Stone had been arrested and carted off in the early hours of the morn. I looked for details, as at the time we weren’t sure when, precisely, it had happened. None of my other feeds had any news so I […]

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Gaming impeachment

Friday, January 18, 2019

It seems like years ago that a new Congresswoman (was it coincidental she was a person of color) was savaged for saying that Individual-1 should be impeached. Given the disclosures of the past few days, and the near certainty that even more will come out in the near future, it has now become respectable for […]

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Both Siderism to the tenth power

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

The internet, particularly the twittersphere, is agog over this tweet from ABC News: AP FACT CHECK: Democrats put the blame for the shutdown on Trump. But it takes two to tango. Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion for his border wall is one reason for the budget impasse. The Democrats refusal to approve the money is […]

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An open letter to the New London Day

Saturday, January 5, 2019

First, let me congratulate you on your recent addition of rightwing radio jock Lee Elci to your stable of regular columnists. This is yet another milestone in your years long effort to offer a wide range of opinions among your columnists, which opinions now range along a continuum from pundits who sometimes put their toes […]

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Good, so far as it goes

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

So far as I know Paul Krugman is the only voice in the mainstream that calls out whataboutismand bothsiderism. His columntoday seems like a polite channeling of the always on target rants of Driftglass, a blogI highly recommend.  There’s a major difference, however. See if you can spot it in the excerpt below: False equivalence, portraying the parties as […]

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Installment 9999 of “What if Obama had done that?”

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Yesterday the delegates to the United Nations laughed at the person who currently holds the position of President of the United States. In the three papers I get each morning, it is barely mentioned, and in one the laughs are referred to as “chuckles”. Of course, Fox didn’t even let its viewers know about it. […]

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You’re welcome, Rachel

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

My wife and I were in a hotel in Maine Friday night, which means we had access to a television for the first time in quite a while, and, more importantly, reason to watch. The last time we watched television was in another hotel room, the night of the first vote on Obamacare repeal. Friday […]

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Little Trumpie on his best behavior

Sunday, July 15, 2018

We were away for the weekend, so it was not until a few hours ago that I say this article in the New London Day about Trump’s visit to England. On line, the story is titled, appropriately, Protests, diplomatic backflips mark Trump’s visit to England. But I saw it first in the printed newspaper, where the title […]

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