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Hey Joe! Listen to Harry

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

The last time I checked (actually, I never checked, but I’m pretty sure I’m right) Harry Reid is even older than Joe Biden, yet Harry seems fully capable, even in his senescence, of figuring out which way the wind is blowing. He has an Op-Ed piecein this morning’s New York Times advocating for an end to […]

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Some revisionist history

Thursday, March 7, 2019

I have to admit that I’ve always felt the Clinton impeachment backfired on the Republicans, but Philippe Reines, a former Hillary Spokesperson, makes a trenchant case that it was not: The other thing that drives me crazy is this notion that the…Republicans suffered for impeachment in ’98. I’m not sure what that what that means. […]

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A few thoughts on latter day mortal sins

Monday, February 11, 2019

I mentioned in a post yesterday that I’m currently reading Jill Lepore’s These Truths, a history of the US. Today I began the last section of the book, covering the period from the end of World War II to our own bleak times. Early in that period the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education. Lepore […]

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Fuzzy math (at least to me)

Sunday, January 13, 2019

A new poll, unsurprisingly, finds that Republicans overwhelmingly blame Democrats for the shutdown, despite the fact that Individual-1, before the fact, proudly took ownership of any shutdown. Facts don’t mean much on the dark side. But there’s something that doesn’t seem to compute here. Here are the results:     The percentages given don’t add up […]

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A few disjointed observations

Friday, January 4, 2019

I started writing this a few days ago. In this day of instant reaction to the news via twitter that might as well be decades, but I’m going to post it anyway. As I browsed through my blog reader recently I found a number of common themes. I have nothing to add to the universal […]

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A bit of speculation

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

I don’t pretend to know all that much about British politics, but it strikes me that the Conservative Party is suffering from one of the anti-democratic maladies for which the Republican Party has become notorious. Apparently, the British people, if given the chance, would vote to reverse the Brexit vote.It was, after all, the result of […]

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Say it ain’t so, Joe

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Joe Biden sayshe’s the most qualified person in the country to be our next president. In my humble opinion, there are very few potential candidates that Trump could beat in 2020. Biden tops the list. Also, if there were a god, I’d be asking him (or her) to please preserve us from Hillary, who has been making […]

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In the unlikely event that the Democrats don’t blow it…

Friday, October 12, 2018

Let me direct your attention to this thought provoking post at Naked Capitalism. The thrust of the argument made is that, should the Democrats not blow it, and they take one or more of the Houses of Congress this year, they should avoid investigations into Trump’s crimes and corruption, instead concentrating on promoting a legislative agenda, […]

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Kavanaugh

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

The end of the Kavanaugh saga approaches. A few observations. First, lets stipulate that all the evidence suggests that Dr. Ford’s account of Kavanaugh’s actions is substantially true. We can also put aside any question of whether Kavanaugh’s actions when he was fifteen are sufficient grounds to deny him the right to strip women, minorities, […]

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An unspeakably bad idea

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

If Camilo Casas is elected to city council in Boulder, Colorado, this November, he doesn’t plan to make any decisions himself. If he wins, Casas will instead give up his vote to Parti.Vote, a “liquid democracy” app he built to change how government functions. This is how it will work: If more than 50 percent […]

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