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The present situation

Friday, July 19, 2024

I haven’t posted for several weeks, as I am in the sort of catatonic state in which so many non-fascists find themselves these days. Like so many, I’m stunned that the media has decided to do its best to get the genius re-elected. I won’t go into detail about the one sided coverage. I’ll only […]

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They can only preach to the choir

Monday, March 11, 2024

I’ve written a number of posts about the Democrat’s seeming inability to grab control of the narrative. They always seem to be on the defensive and rarely, if ever, speak in unison, unlike the Republicans who will come up with a line of attack which is repeated endlessly and by practically all of them. One […]

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Good day, yesterday

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

So, the Democrat won convincingly in New York yesterday, cutting the Republicans’ razor thin majority in the House down even more. It was supposed to be close, but wasn’t. 2022 was supposed to be a Republican wave, but wasn’t. In fact, it appears to be the case that Democrats have outperformed the polls quite a […]

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Election reaction

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

I spent all of yesterday registering new voters here in Groton. A slow day on that front, but to be expected, given the fact that there were only local elections taking place. I’ll be doing the same thing next year, and I very much doubt I’ll be able to play multiple Sudoko games, read a […]

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What is a centrist?

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

This article over at Hullabaloo got me thinking about the term “centrist” as it is used in the media. The article is about Joe Lieberman’s “No Labels” group, which is in the process of trying to put together a presidential ticket in 2024. A funny thing about centrists is that they never tell you what […]

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Looking on the bright side-a bit

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Regular readers know that I always look on the bright side, or at least I do every Good Friday when I post a certain clip from Monty Python’s Life of Brian. But I’m about to look on the bright side again, or at least speculate that there may be a bright side. Nowadays, so far […]

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Joe Biden semi-goes there

Saturday, August 27, 2022

I have in the past, (too lazy to find the post) bloviated about the Democrats failure to call a fascist a fascist. So, it was with somewhat pleasant to read that Joe Biden found his way clear to go half way there: “It’s not just Trump,” he said at a fundraiser. “It’s the entire philosophy […]

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Report card so far

Saturday, June 11, 2022

I don’t have a television, so I will be watching the January 6 hearings on YouTube, most likely not when they originally stream, but I’ll catch them in repeats. Some readers (assuming there are any) might expect me to have a cynical take on them, but, at least so far, I think things are going […]

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Breyer leaving

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

So Stephen Breyer is leaving. Perhaps he finally realized that his belief in an “above all that” Supreme Court was a fantasy. I understand Biden intends to pick a black woman as the next justice, which is fine, but there’s another qualification that’s equally urgent. She should be young, say in her early forties. We […]

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A look ahead

Friday, April 30, 2021

Back in 2012, when the latest Republican Establishment candidate lost the popular vote and the Electoral College (Republicans don’t ever win the popular vote anymore; they rely on our archaic constitutional provisions to impose their candidates on an unwilling electorate) I predicted that for the next election, the Republican base would demand that the party […]

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