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A look ahead, revisited

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

One of my readers (my only reader?) emailed to ask me if, in light of the Trump amplified corona virus, my predictions for the years ahead had changed since this New Year’s day post. Inasmuch as I find that commenting on the daily events, all of which seem so predictable that any intelligent comment seems too […]

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An open letter to Democrats in Congress

Friday, March 13, 2020

Dear Democratic Congresspersons: Back at the beginning of the Obama Administration, Rahm Emanuel had this to say: You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before. The Obama Administration, Rahm helping to lead the way, then proceeded […]

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An Open Letter to our friends, the Bernie Bros

Thursday, March 12, 2020

Dear Bernie Bros: It has now become clear that Joe Biden will enter the convention with a majority of pledged delegates and will not have to rely on Super Delegates to get himself over the top. Just a few weeks ago, Bernie’s folks were arguing that the nomination should go to whoever gets to the […]

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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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