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Yet another thing you couldn’t make up

Saturday, February 22, 2025

This is getting bizarre: Federal workers began receiving emails Saturday asking them to explain what work they did last week, as Elon Musk announced that “failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.” “Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager. Please do […]

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Trump’s picks: Only the Best!

Sunday, January 5, 2025

Back when she called herself a Democrat, and was running for President, a couple of folks I know actually supported Tulsi Gabbard’s candidacy. One was a person close to me genetically but rather far off politically, but the other was a person whose politics had been perfectly reasonable. I could never understand either one’s rationale, […]

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A few predictions

Saturday, April 27, 2024

A few observations resulting from legal developments this past week. First, it appears increasingly likely that Trump will be convicted in his New York trial and that said conviction will take place within a few weeks. Also, and somewhat to my surprise (but not totally, given the corruption on the Supreme Court) it appears likely […]

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Where do we go from here

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Like a lot of other Democrats I’ve gotten a kick out of watching the Republicans flail around trying to pick a successor to the hapless McCarthy. There has probably never been anyone seriously considered for Speaker of the House as unqualified as Gym Jordan in the entire history of this country. He, along with so […]

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A typical case of American Blind Justice

Saturday, January 14, 2023

Isn’t this great? On Friday, the former President’s namesake company, the Trump Organization, was sentenced to pay the state $1.6 million in fines. That is the maximum allowed by law. I would be willing to bet that the state of New York spent more than $1.6 million dollars to get the guilty verdict (remember, it […]

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Couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy

Thursday, January 5, 2023

It’s been rather delicious watching the Speaker battle play out. McCarthy is an amoral sleaze, and he deserves all the humiliation he can get. This is a unique situation. I usually have a decent idea of how things will end up as things unwind in Washington, or at least I have an opinion, but in […]

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More stuff you couldn’t make up

Thursday, October 20, 2022

I remember a time when you would not expect this sort of thing even from the folks down in Texas: TODAY is reporting that Texas is sending DNA kits to families to identify their children “in case of an emergency.” Harking back to the title of this post, would anyone really believe a work of […]

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Manchin’s Game

Friday, July 29, 2022

So, when I first heard that Manchin had struck a deal with Schumer, my reaction was: How will Lucy pull the football away this time? Well, it looks like I’ve found the answer. You see, it seems that Joe really wants to eliminate what is truly a horrendous tax loophole that benefits very rich people, […]

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Those who don’t learn from history…

Monday, July 25, 2022

Here’s a post over at Balloon Juice that once again makes you wonder how our elected representatives manage to continue to live in a fantasy world. The post is about the fact that we may need up to four new senators to rid ourselves of the filibuster, as there are a couple of others that […]

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This is familiar

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

I have been voted out of every elective office here in the Town of Groton, which means I have also held each elective office, so I became familiar with the budget process. So this sounded familiar: The leadership of the Congressional Progressive Caucus voiced opposition to President Joe Biden’s $813 billion military budget request on […]

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