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The Year Ahead

Saturday, January 1, 2022

In the past, as the new year approached, I’ve often posted predictions for the coming year. I haven’t always been right, but I think I have a pretty good track record. This year I’ve got almost nothing. There are some things that are a given. The media, particularly the broadcast media, will, by and large […]

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Some things never change

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

While my wife and I await our second shot, after which we will feel free to, you know, do things, and as I wait out the weather, which has pretty much put an end to daily biking, I’ve been doing more reading than usual. Among the books I’m currently reading is Herman Melville’s The Confidence […]

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Super Sunday rant

Sunday, February 7, 2021

This is my blog, and since no one reads it anyway, I figure I have a perfect right to write about two unrelated things in one blog post. So, here goes. As a still licensed, though retired lawyer, I’m interested in the series of lawsuits that have been filed against, Fox, Giuliani, and their ilk […]

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Random thoughts

Monday, November 23, 2020

A few days ago I noted, as I probably have in other posts, that Republicans are big on projection, which in this context I’m defining as accusing others of one’s own crimes. I thought I’d pass on a few more examples. Here’s a good discussion at the Guardian of the decades old right wing talking […]

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A few things to gloat about

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Just a few things to which we can look forward. You know, Schadenfreude. Mary Trump said recently that Donald will never have another good day, and we can look forward to a few things that will make those days even darker. Barack Obama’s book will be number one on the best seller lists, and that […]

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A Sea of Troubles

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Here’s my story, it’s sad but true. About my troubles with CTBlue. It took my words and ran away. And was not fixed, for many a day For the benefit of anyone born after 1955, the above is sung to the tune of “Runaround Sue”. It is entirely possible that somebody, somewhere, noticed that this […]

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A little alternate history

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Most rational people would agree that had this plague descended upon us during Obama’s presidency, he would have done a far better job of dealing with it. That being said, the question arises, would it have made any difference so far as the outcome? At first blush, the answer is “obviously yes”, but if you […]

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Past Perfect

Friday, December 27, 2019

Fred McNulty, who for years has been the youngest member of our Drinking Liberally Group (we’ve always wondered how he put up with us), has an interesting post at his blog, Miguk Minute. (And don’t expect I’ll explain what Miguk means) Fred deconstructs the “War on Christmas” meme. For the most part, with one major exception that […]

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Back from the shadows again

Friday, July 26, 2019

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, as I am on vacation in the wilds of Vermont, going to the same places we go every year. Once again, we went to the Hapgood “Eatery” in Peru (that would be the Peru in Vermont, just down the road from the Bromley ski area), and once again, […]

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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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