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Good Friday Night Music

Friday, April 3, 2026

I’ve been doing this blog now for about 22 years, not writing as frequently as I used to, but every now and then. Lately it seems there’s nothing to say, because the rot and corruption seems so obvious. Who ever thought we’d see a day when George W. Bush would look good by comparison to […]

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About that Dog Killer

Friday, March 6, 2026

One of the reasons put forward by the Republicans and the press for Trump shoving Noem (the dog killer) aside is his statement to the effect that she lied about the 200 and some odd million dollar anti-immigrant ad campaign she has waged, with, I would guess, a lot of those funds going to people […]

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Storm is coming

Saturday, January 24, 2026

A few thoughts while waiting for the coming storm, any damage from which and any failure on the part of FEMA to respond appropriately will obviously be the fault of Joe BIden, for according to members of a certain political party everything that goes wrong is Biden’s fault. I’ve been doing this blog now for […]

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Got there first

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

A short time again I predicted that the federal government would quite likely start releasing fake statistics in the event the economy began to tank. Today, Paul Krugman predicted the same thing. I’d like to think that he got the idea from me, but for some reason I don’t think that’s likely. The link is […]

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Another Good Friday (One Day Late)

Saturday, April 19, 2025

I’ve been writing this blog for 20 years, though gone are the days when I posted almost every day. But if memory serves (and at my age it doesn’t always) I have maintained a Good Friday tradition since that long ago time. Every year I post a video of Monty Python’s Always Look on the […]

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Primary Day in Groton

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

As I wrote yesterday, I spent the entire day acting as a checker at my local polling place. As I did so, I documented the exciting events of the day. The reader can decide what conclusions to draw about the level of enthusiasm out there for whatever candidate wins this primary. Personally, I think Chris […]

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All the words are in English but…

Saturday, January 6, 2024

We’re all used to politicians, particularly the lying liars in the Republican camp, responding (I won’t use the word “answering” as that doesn’t quite describe it) to questions by spewing a word salad that not only does not answer the question, but is often incomprehensible. But politicians are hardly alone in coming up with whole […]

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A look ahead with added random thoughts

Saturday, December 30, 2023

The year is coming to an end. Almost every year, if not every year that I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve written a year end post speculating about the coming year. For instance, at the end of 2019 I was both totally prescient so far as predicting that Joe Biden would be nominated and elected […]

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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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Roots in the past

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

I think I mentioned in a previous post that I’m proofreading my son’s new book, which is about, in part, the national conversation among politicians and intellectuals just before, during, and shortly after the Civil War. He relates that one strand of thought was to the effect that, after the Civil War, it was necessary […]

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