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Good-bye Jim

Monday, July 27, 2009

Jim Bunning is hanging up his glove. He won’t be running for re-election to the Senate. This is a good thing. I have never liked Jim Bunning. When I was just a wee lad I spent many a day in front of the black and white tube watching the Red Sox, and many a night […]

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Now that’s catering to the base!

Monday, July 27, 2009

Great video from the Huffington Post During the election campaign I had the dubious honor of appearing on a talk radio show in which I was paired against some looney tune author of a scurrillous email that had made the rounds of the nutjobs. I didn’t know who the guy was when I agreed to […]

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Afraid of empathy

Monday, July 13, 2009

Charles Grassley, who has somehow been elected a United States Senator,quakes in fear at the prospect of a judge who is able to feel empathy: President Obama said that he would nominate judges based on their ability to “empathize” in general and with certain groups in particular. This “empathy” standard is troubling to me. In […]

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There are aliens among us

Monday, June 29, 2009

I think, perhaps, that I am beginning to understand the fundamentalist fear that gay marriages will somehow destroy their own. A few days ago I pondered Jenny Sanford’s odd declaration that marriage is an enduring love is primarily an act of will. Apparently, this attitude is ingrained in the fundamentalist creed, at least the fundamentalist […]

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An act of will

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

At times like this I realize my inadequacies as a wordsmith. What original slant could one possibly bring to the Sanford story? Sure, we all know that you couldn’t make it up, but that doesn’t help a guy in my situation. As I write, the story is already over 5 hours old, and in this […]

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It’s all about us

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Tom Tomorrow puts it succinctly, as always.

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Stating the obvious, take 2

Saturday, June 20, 2009

It is inconceivable to me that there is anyone out there who disagrees with Obama’s response to the Iranian election and the subsequent unrest. It seems so obvious that the folks in power there would just love to tar the opposition as American pawns.In fact, they are already forcing people to confess to being agents […]

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Putting things in perspective

Thursday, June 18, 2009

I hadn’t heard about Congressman Pete Hoekstra (R) comparing he and his fellow Republican twitters with the folks storming the battlements in Iran, but he did. And here’s a blog with some great editorial comment about it.

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Tweet, Tweet, Tweet

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

The Republicans appear to be dominating the political part of the world of Twitter. This was a self conscious strategy; having been thoroughly trounced in the blogosphere, they were not going to let themselves get beat again. So we get to read about Charles Grassley’s inane non-sequiturs, Gingrich’s fact free claims of Sotomayor’s alleged racism, […]

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A trip down memory lane

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

I was perusing a front page article in the Globe this morning (co-written by a brilliant young reporter who coincidentally shares my last name), and I noted that Republicans are taking offense at the idea that someone’s life story should be considered in determining his or her fitness for the bench: Obama, however, was quickly […]

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