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A look ahead

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

A few days ago I said I’d soon be putting up my predictions for the coming year, but due to the fact that the mathematically innumerate continue to claim we begin a new decade this year, I’ve decided to stretch things a bit, and look even farther into what I fear will be our dystopian […]

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Covfefe!

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

This post is only marginally about politics, but since this is my blog, and no one reads it anyway, I feel that I am justified in bloviating about a pet peeve. The only game I play against others on my phone and tablet is Words with Friends. I continue to play it even though the folks […]

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Covfefe!

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

This post is only marginally about politics, but since this is my blog, and no one reads it anyway, I feel that I am justified in bloviating about a pet peeve. The only game I play against others on my phone and tablet is Words with Friends. I continue to play it even though the folks […]

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You can stop if you’ve read this same rant elsewhere

Monday, March 25, 2019

I realize that everything I’m about to say has been said ad nauseum, but inasmuch as this is my blog and no one has to read it if they don’t want, I will proceed to vent. First, lets stipulate that when people read newspapers, they often just scan the headlines, or read the first couple […]

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Latest rant

Saturday, March 16, 2019

This is not going to be a post about the genius’s tone deaf but honest reaction to the killings in New Zealand. That’s been massively covered elsewhere, but I’ll note, as it is somewhat germane to this post, that his racist reaction is eliciting, at least here in the U.S., the now familiar “Trump being […]

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Saturday Night Rant

Saturday, February 2, 2019

This is a rant, but it is political, in a sense. I recently retired, and have therefore been spending a lot of time at home, though it obviously hasn’t increased my productivity so far as blogging is concerned. We still have a land line. Every day I get phone calls from scammers. Brenda, a “Medicare […]

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More whining about messaging

Thursday, October 18, 2018

This postat Hullabaloo caught me eye. In it, Digby states the obvious about Republican tax cuts: It’s a simple scheme, really. Whenever they control the government they immediately pass massive tax cuts and massive increases in military spending, always promising that the wealthy and the corporations will pour all that money back into the economy and […]

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A rant

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Inasmuch as this is my blog, and I have now reached the age at which I can officially be deemed a curmudgeon, I am going to vent my spleen regarding a certain matter that has little if anything to do with politics, but quite a lot about why certain corporations are having their clocks cleaned […]

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Rant of the Day

Friday, July 6, 2018

Today in my mail (of the snail variety) I got a missive from Elizabeth Warren, asking me to donate money to the DCCC. It went right to the trash, but let me say a word about this. The DCCC has done its best to squash any local candidate who comes from what might be called […]

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Random Rants

Sunday, June 17, 2018

A few observations about some random stories in today’s newspapers. First, the Boston Globetells us that the Republicans are never going to stand up to Trump, because he’s giving them what he wants. No arguments with that, but thisis a common refrain that really has to stop: The majority of his successes have been reversals of the […]

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