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Fixed Delusions

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Without going into details, I have lately, in my role as an attorney, had a frustrating time trying to get a mental health agency to help a client deal with a tenant who is mentally ill, paranoid and delusional. We think she is at risk of harming herself, but they say that while she has […]

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Paul Ryan courts the huddled masses

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Paul Ryan has some advice for his fellow Republicans: ‘‘We need to show that we have better ideas. We need to show that we have real solutions. We need to show that we’re the party of opportunity,’’ said Ryan, the vice presidential nominee in 2012. His upbeat tone and call for wholesale expansion of the […]

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Let me unskew this for you

Friday, July 25, 2014

Over at the Daily Kos, they are trumpeting a poll that shows that Americans would prefer to have American jobs protected rather than passing more job killing trade agreements. I'm with the Kosites on this issue, but this poll cannot be relied upon as a true measure of the feelings of the American people. Let […]

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Another take on Cantor

Thursday, June 12, 2014

There's been a lot of speculation about why Eric Cantor went down in flames. The basic reason may be the main: the man is an asshole. But I'm persuaded by this view that this is the argument that clinched the deal with the voters: But there’s no question that conservative economics professor David Brat succeeded […]

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Delicious

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

So, it turns out that Chris Christie'e people deliberately caused a massive traffic jam in NJ, as political payback against the Fort Lee mayor. Sort of weird when you consider that theres really no use punishing someone while denying responsibility. Sort of undermines the message. It's a little like Tony Soprano arranging an accident that […]

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Krugman wrong again

Sunday, December 29, 2013

I hate to disagree with Krugman, but disagree I must. In a recent post on his blog he made the outrageous claim that the right can't take (or make?) a joke, and that we on the left can. The proximate cause of his post was the reaction to a humorous attack on Bitcoin, which provoked […]

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Stopped clocks and Obama haters

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Yesterday a lot of us on the left were pleasantly surprised that a federal judge in Washington had ruled the NSA surveillance program not just merely unconstitional, but really quite sincerely unconstitutional. I know I was pleasantly surprised, though when I read the judge's name, something tugged at my not so mystic chords of memory. […]

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Hope, though not much, for the South

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Recently there was a special election for a Louisiana congressional seat. The results were somewhat shocking: a Republican who supported the expanded Medicaid benefits in Obamacare beat his mainstream (the “tea party” is now mainstream ) Republican opponent. (The district in question is scarlet red) It appears that even dumb poor Southern white people actually […]

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Enough Already

Thursday, October 31, 2013

This past Sunday we had a chance to talk to Senator Blumenthal at a fundraiser in West Mystic. We asked him about the filibuster, an issue on which his position when elected was good, and on which he’s stood firm. Today we’ve seen yet another example of Republican misuse of the filibuster, or, as it’s […]

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Someone watches over us

Friday, October 18, 2013

Apparently someone once said, though no one know who, that “God takes care of fools, drunks, and the United States of America”. Given recent events, even we non-believers must pause and wonder sometimes. Consider this. The present day Democratic Party must be the most incompetent political party that has ever maintained its existence on the […]

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