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A few thoughts on our glorious constitution

Monday, January 20, 2020

One of the more ridiculous arguments put forward by the genius’s defenders is that the Democrats are trying to overturn the will of the people and the election of 2016. Let’s set aside the fact that if that argument held water, any impeachment would be off the table, rendering the impeachment clause a dead letter.  […]

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Utterly delusional

Friday, August 9, 2019

We can all agree that the present occupant of the White House is seriously mentally ill, and that he suffers from a mental illness that puts the rest of us at risk. But what does it say about the state of our nation that his possible (we can only hope) successor is also mentally ill, […]

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We’re all fraudsters on this bus

Saturday, March 9, 2019

This isn’t a political post, per se, but it raises a question that has some bearing on our present plight, considering that the person occupying the White House built a career based on fraud, much of which involved misrepresenting his own abilities. I ran across this articleon ProPublica. It’s titled I’m a Journalist. Apparently I’m also one […]

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We know he’s guilty, Josh

Friday, August 17, 2018

I have a huge amount of respect for Josh Marshall, but I have a bit of trouble with his post this morning entitled We know Trump is Guilty. We’re Having a Hard Time Admitting it. Josh’s argument on guilt is ironclad, a lot of it summed up in this Doonesbury comic from some time back: […]

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A prediction

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

I just heard that Trump fired Comey. I can still recall the night of the Saturday Night Massacre, when Nixon fired his Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General when they refused to help him cover up Watergate. I still remember an alarmed John Chancellor, of CBS (I think it was CBS) emphasizing that “nothing like […]

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Excuse my cynicism

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

I wish I could agree with this article, which argues that Michael Flynn has retroactively registered as a foreign agent in order to set himself up for leniency when Trump and Pence are investigated. It still begs the question of why Michael Flynn is suddenly doing this. By registering now as a foreign agent, he’s […]

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Cassandras at the Times

Monday, December 19, 2016

Krugman has it right on the nose this morning, making the obvious historical comparisons to the not quite Republic of Rome: And what happens to the republic as a result? Famously, on paper the transformation of Rome from republic to empire never happened. Officially, imperial Rome was still ruled by a Senate that just happened […]

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Of, by, and for the plutocrats

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

I get emails at work solely because I’m a lawyer, and not because I have ever had anything to do with the sender or the area of the law to which they happen to cater. They usually go straight to trash, but today I followed a link in one of them, a site called Wealthmanagement.com. […]

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Grifting the USA

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Blogging has been sparse lately, as I’m still getting over the shock. It’s not easy facing up to the fact that I will quite likely witness the end of a republican (small “r”, you’ll notice) government in the United States. Sooner or later everything put together falls apart, but I figured we had at least […]

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Everything put together, sooner or later falls apart

Saturday, November 12, 2016

I’m slowly unwinding from the fetal position, but it’s still the case that I wake with a jolt every day when I realize that the unthinkable has happened. I’m under orders from my better half not to be too doom-and-gloomy, so I won’t burden this blog, at least right now, with specific predictions. But, I’ve […]

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