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Maybe you can’t be wrong all the time

Saturday, March 13, 2021

I’ve mentioned before that my wife and I helped found a chapter of Drinking Liberally which has (hopefully) survived to this day, as we are very much hoping to leave the confines of Zoom and meet in person soon, and actually drink, albeit not all that liberally. One of the regulars has been faithfully attending […]

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Too early to look ahead

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Normally, at this time of the year, I write a post with my predictions for the coming year. Here’s last year’s, which holds up reasonably well, considering I had no reason to predict a pandemic when I wrote it. I did have reason, given her age, to suspect that Ruth Bader Ginsburg might not make […]

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A look ahead

Monday, November 16, 2020

Toward the end of last year I posted my predictions about the coming year. Those that can be tested against reality have stood up fairly well, though I obviously did not predict the plague, and my prediction about Justice Ginsburg was negated by her death. But right now I’m thinking about this part of the […]

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He shares my angst

Saturday, October 24, 2020

I’ve mentioned before that I read the Boston Globe, primarily because my eldest works for them. They also have relatively decent comics, including Bill Griffith’s Zippy, of which I am a big fan. Griffith lives in East Haddam now, by the way, and often features local landmarks in his strip. Lately Griffith has been sharing […]

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I’m with Biden on this one

Saturday, October 24, 2020

I was not a Biden fan during primary season, and I continue to believe that several of the other candidates would make better presidents than him, inasmuch as I think they are more aware of what this country needs to recover from not just four years of fascism, but years and years of Republican misrule, […]

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Why I didn’t watch the debate, and won’t watch the next one

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

I didn’t watch last night’s debate, but then, if you read the title of this piece, you already knew that. I didn’t actually watch the Kennedy-Nixon debates, being only 10 at the time, but I did become aware, even then, that the “winner” was not the person who made the better argument, but the one […]

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A cynical pattern

Sunday, September 27, 2020

It’s not hard to detect this pattern. When Justice Thurgood Marshall, a giant of the civil rights movement died, the Republicans went out and found themselves a black person who could be counted on to help undo all of his achievements. They found him in Clarence Thomas. Now, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died. She was […]

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We’ve seen this before

Sunday, August 30, 2020

Apparently there is a survey our there making the case that Trump is behind in the polls because his supporters are ever so shy about disclosing their preferences to telephone pollsters. I think it is well debunked at the linked article, but I think it should also be pointed out that this may be one […]

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Sounds familiar

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Yet another sign of hope, assuming of course that they can’t steal the election: Brian Kilmeade gave hope to worried Trump supporters. “But of people who believe that Donald Trump will be successful they talk about a secret vote, the underground vote because if you wear are a red hat or bumper sticker on your […]

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Math Lesson

Friday, July 3, 2020

I was a bit struck by this from an article on Crooks & Liars about a poll that found that Trump has not had much luck painting Biden (of all people) as a dirty fucking hippie: There is at least one cause for hope for Trump in the poll: Forty-one percent of voters agreed with […]

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