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I didn’t think he had it in him

Saturday, March 3, 2012

The non-apology apology is an American art form. I don’t know if it exists in other cultures, but my guess is that if there are analogs, they reflect the various cultures in which those foreign non-apologies are delivered. Here in the U.S.A., where hypocrisy is itself an art form, the non-apology apology usually consists of […]

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Big surprise: Catholics don’t like Saint Ricky

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

This really should come as no surprise: Despite Santorum’s devout Catholicism, Romney beat Santorum, 44% to 37%, among Michigan Catholics, who comprised 30% of the state’s electorate. In Ohio, by contrast, Catholics were just one-quarter of the vote in 2008. Meanwhile, Santorum trounced Romney among Michigan’s Evangelicals by sixteen points. Such voters amounted to 39% […]

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A suggestion for Little Ricky

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

From the Times, reporting on Romney’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: But from the moment Mr. Romney stepped to the podium, flanked by two teleprompters, even he knew that he was not having a good day. A bit of advice to Little Ricky (the enemy of my enemy is my friend): You might want to tar Romney […]

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Yet more grifting

Monday, February 6, 2012

 A few days ago I wrote about Jan Brewer’s book buying scam. Here’s how it works. Start a PAC. Have the PAC buy multiple copies of your own book at full price. Repeat until you run out of suckers. Apparently, it’s a common scam. Christine O’Donnell, the woman who is not a witch, gave her […]

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Brooks runs interference for racist scum

Monday, February 6, 2012

Not being able to stomach David Brooks, I was unaware that he was touting a book by racist pseudo-social scientist Charles Murray. Apparently Murray has discovered that the white working class is also genetically inferior-hence income inequality. A blogger named Peter, at Ph.D. Octopus (disclosure: he shares half my genes) says all that need be […]

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Republicans attack the Fed

Saturday, February 4, 2012

 From the Times: Republicans Sharply Question Bernanke for Fed’s Focus on Job Market Summary:   Why are you trying to block our attempts to tank the economy? Don’t you know we have an election to win?

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Newt defends the poor

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Newt’s still in it. Sarah says that a vote for Newt will annoy a liberal and all I can say is that I’ve never enjoyed being annoyed so much. You have to love the guy. He lives in the eternal present, totally lacking in self awareness or shame. Today he lectured Mitt Romney for saying […]

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High principle lives on

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

 Back in the 60s, I used to watch a TV series called The Defenders, about a father-son team of defense lawyers. I remember in one show the father quoted an aphorism to his son to the effect that it was better that 1000 guilty men go free rather than one innocent man be convicted. Of […]

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Rethinking the Romney meme

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

It’s been conventional wisdom for quite a while that Romney, mass of warts and all, is nonetheless the strongest candidate the Republicans have for the general election. I bought into that, and while I’m not quite ready to declare outright apostasy, I think the argument is losing a lot of its force awful fast. Newt […]

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Scotty Walker writes to my wife

Monday, January 23, 2012

Somehow, and no matter how it was, it was she did nothing to deserve it, my wife has ended up on a right wing mailing list. It first started with Sharon Angle (remember her?) and as these things will, it has metastasized until just about every right wing organization is writing to her. She normally […]

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