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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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Hypocrisy that knows no bounds

Friday, January 19, 2018

Apparently the Hannity fed right wing is in the middle of another anti-Obama fever dream: Sean Hannity says that Robert Mueller’s investigation is “over.” Instead, everyone should be emptying cells at Gitmo to handle President Obama and his cohorts because Republicans are shocked, shocked to find that “Donald Trump was right all along.” They have […]

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They must be cruel rather than be kind

Friday, January 12, 2018

One of the things I like about Paul Krugman is that he totally steers away from blaming our current state of affairs on Trumpism, and puts the blame squarely where it belongs: the Republican Party. This morning’s column, in which he castigates Republicans for their predilection for inflicting pain on the poor is a good […]

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Gosh, whatever happened to States right?

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Men and women of principle: The garbage fire in the White House may have his hands full stumping for a Republican child molester this week, but never doubt the rest of his party’s willingness to stump for the nation’s mass murderers. Republicans lined up a vote this week in the House on making it easier […]

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A % here and a % there and pretty soon you’re talking about real money

Sunday, November 19, 2017

It goes without saying that Paul Ryan and the Republicans are lying when they claim their tax bill is designed to benefit the middle class. Okay, some of them may not be lying. Some of them may be so stupid that they believe the bullshit Ryan is peddling but, same difference. If you’re a Member […]

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A mystery solved?

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Over the last day or so I have been completely mystified. Various Republicans have come out urging Roy Moore to withdraw from the Alabama Senate race. Some, such as Mitch McConnell, have even said that they believed his accusers. This all seemed strange to me. The man was already known to be a racist and […]

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