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Category Archives: Crazies

Trump sticks up for Muslim women 

Monday, October 26, 2015

Trump said some stupid things in New Hampshire the other day. I know that’s not news, but since it’s treated as such, it seems to me that the media owes us a little context. Here’s the story from the Boston Globe, and for purposes of discussion, let’s put aside the sexism: ATKINSON, NH – Businessman […]

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Ready to Die

Monday, July 13, 2015

Glenn Beck is looking for a few good men to lay down their lives: Next week, Religious Right activist Jim Garlow will be hosting a four day conference at his California megachurch called the “Future Conference: What You Thought Was Coming … Is Here Now.” That sort of a dire warning perfectly matches up with […]

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A corollary

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Upton Sinclair once said: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Self evidently true. I believe I have discovered an equally obvious corollary to Sinclair’s observation: It is easy to get a man to believe something, when his salary depends on his believing […]

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The Bronze Rule 

Friday, May 29, 2015

Many years ago I read an article in Scientific American that has stuck with me through the years. The thrust of it was as follows: If you want to change someone’s (or a group of someones, e.g., the Republican Party) behavior, the best approach is tit-for-tat. That is, neither the golden rule (do unto others […]

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Paranoia Strikes Deep

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

I’m no psychologist, but I’m guessing that this sort of thing is caused by the fact that a lot of my fellow white people feel threatened and are just sure that now that there’s a black President, the country they think they used to run is out to get them: A gathering of western Arizona […]

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Further proof

Sunday, May 3, 2015

A few days ago I asserted, based on extremely good evidence, that the good old USA was number one in the stupid department, thanks to the downward pressure the Old Confederacy (Texas in particular) is putting on our average IQ. The immediate impetus for the article was a public hearing in Bastrop, Texas, in which […]

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We’re Number One!

Thursday, April 30, 2015

At least, I’m fairly sure we must be, for could there be a country in which people are stupider than our fellow citizens: If you haven’t heard, there’s going to be a large military exercise around the country from July 15th to September 15th. It’s called Jade Helm 15 because all military trainings have names […]

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Republican woman breaks into mostly male winners circle

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

A rarity: a woman beats the odds, and appears to qualify for more than honorable mention at the Darwin Awards. Not surprisingly, she's a Republican: A low-level Republican official in Michigan was adjusting a gun in her bra holster last month when she accidentally shot herself to death, local newspapers reported. Christina Bond, 55, shot […]

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Schiavo redux

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

It has been great fun watching Republicans try to deal with the vaccination issue. The natural reaction of a Republican politician is to go with the crazy. If you are perceived as a moderate, like Chris Christie, you may literally embrace the chance to establish your insane bona fides, which is, of course, exactly what […]

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Republican Logic

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

United States Senator (yes, let that sink in) Thom Tillis, believes that we should not have regulations requiring restaurant workers to wash their hands after using the bathroom, but we should have regulations requiring their employers to let the public know that their employees are not required to wash their hands after using the bathroom. […]

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