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Nothing new here

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Dave Collins, a columnist at the Day, did a survey of Republican legislators in this part of the state to see if any of them could explain how Stefanowski can eliminate the state income tax. He noted at the beginning of his piece, that there’s a talking point that the notion is really just “aspirational”. […]

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Susan Collins: Stupid, or hypocritical political hack? We report, you decide.

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Everything’s been said about Manafort and Cohen, so I’m going a bit in the weeds, since we all should remember that while that stuff is getting the headlines, the destruction of our democracy is ongoing. The lower courts have already been stuffed with racists and corporate whores, and the Supreme Court is about to be […]

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Racist to the core

Sunday, August 12, 2018

Senator Tim Scott, of South Carolina, is a black Republican. In my humble opinion, that’s a little like being a Jewish Nazi, a sign either of overweening cynicism or overwhelming stupidity. That being said, it appears Scott, unlike a certain Supreme Court justice whose name shall go unmentioned, retains a shred, as miniscule as it […]

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I got mail

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Today I got a piece of mail with no return address, but I knew it was important because it had strict instructions on the envelope that it should be delivered only to me and that it should not be destroyed. So, of course, I hastened to open it, and found it was a letter personally […]

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Meanwhile, below the radar

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Recently Mitch McConnell let it be known that he would not let a bill designed to protect the Mueller investigation get to the floor. In this I think he erred, and I’m not speaking from the perspective of a person who cares about the Constitution, but from the perspective of a right wing Republican who […]

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What I wouldn’t give for a real satisfying wallow

Monday, April 16, 2018

In my younger years, I spent many happy hours wallowing in Watergate, and I must confess that today’s news about Sean Hannity revived those happy feelings, if only for a while. But that was then, and this is now, and no thinking person can sustain a good wallow. This is mainly because back in the days of […]

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The Con-man bows out

Thursday, April 12, 2018

The big news yesterday was Paul Ryan’s decision to retire so he could “spend more time with his family”, an excuse so hackneyed that it is amazing anyone still uses it, inasmuch as it is practically an admission that the actual reason is something other than a desire for familial bliss.  Here in Southeastern Connecticut […]

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Can Fox meet the challenge?

Monday, February 5, 2018

As I write this, the story at this link reflects a 1.36% decline in the stock market so far today, on top of Friday’s record sell off. Is Fox up to the challenge? They’ve been touting the market’s rise since Obama left office as proof of Trump’s supercalifragilisticexpialidocious presidentiality. Now they have to do a […]

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A few thoughts on the “secret memo”

Friday, February 2, 2018

Well, all the world can now read the “secret memo”, and, not surprisingly, other than in the right wing fever swamp, the reaction has been dismissive at best, mocking derision at worst. A good collection of mocking twitter posts here. The whole thing never made sense. The thing was created by Republican operatives who immediately […]

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Warren’s future

Sunday, January 21, 2018

This morning’s Boston Globe has a front page article about a problem Elizabeth Warren will have if she runs for president. She will have to defend her claim to Indian heritage, a claim she apparently made based on what she’d been told as a child. The Globe eludes the fact that this can only be […]

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