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Category Archives: Creeping Totalitarianism

Bad Moons Rising

Sunday, June 25, 2023

This article, discussing the ongoing pogrom in Israel, reminds us that we’re not the only country in which a fascist future is a real threat. It’s one of history’s ironies that Israel is far ahead of us on that front. Off the subject a bit: this is just one of many stories that the media […]

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Two can play the censorship game

Thursday, March 23, 2023

When I read recently that Florida was considering a law that would allow any single parent to require that a book be removed from a school library, it occurred to me that it hadn’t occurred to the Florida Fascists that both sides could play that game. Turns out there’s a similar law in Utah, requiring […]

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Judicial Intellectual Dishonesty (Who would think!)

Saturday, February 4, 2023

Just before he died at the hands of someone who should never have had a gun, John Lennon gave an interview to Playboy, in which he asserted that “everything is the opposite of what it is, isn’t it”. I won’t go into details on Lennon’s thinking or reasoning, but it looks like right wing judges […]

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An upcoming challenge for the not so Supremes

Monday, December 5, 2022

It will be interesting to see how the Supreme Court handles these cases if they make it to the highest court in the land: The ACLU is bringing a suit against Indiana’s regressive, sadistic abortion ban based on the fact that it infringes on the religious rights of anyone who doesn’t subscribe to the fantasy […]

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Looking ahead to a Republican House Majority

Sunday, November 20, 2022

I have read in multiple places that the Fascist Party has promised to spend the next two years avoiding doing anything that might benefit the citizenry, while engaging in fake investigations of Biden, his son Hunter, and even of Dr. Fauci. The hypocrisy is of course, mind-numbing, given that they will also shut down Congressional […]

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The Supreme Court: “See, we’re impartial!”

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

It’s entirely possible that I’m repeating something I’ve written before, but Driftglass, one of my favorite bloggers, does that all the time, so I will proceed. It came as no surprise to me that the Supreme Court told Lindsay Graham to pound sand when he asked them to protect him from testifying in Georgia about […]

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One cheer for the 11th Circuit

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Back at the end of 2019 I made some New Year’s predictions. One of them was to the effect that after he lost the election, Trump would vanish down the memory hole into which George Bush had leaped (or was shoved) in 2009. I was wrong, as Trump insisted on being worshipped, and the Republican […]

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What are the odds this bill will pass

Monday, September 19, 2022

If I were a betting man I wouldn’t think twice about how I’d bet on the prospects of this bill actually becoming law: Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) have introduced the Presidential Election Reform Act to prevent Trump from stealing 2024. According to NBC News, the bill would “The 38-page bill would […]

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Open criminality is the new norm

Saturday, September 17, 2022

Sometimes things move much too fast for someone who isn’t paid to blog. When I first heard about the stunt DeSantis pulled sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, it seemed to me that there was something, you know, illegal about it. My first thought was that it was kidnapping. I didn’t practice criminal law, and even […]

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Stop me if I’ve bloviated on this before

Saturday, September 3, 2022

My wife and I have a little daily ritual. I read her the on-this-date entries from my diary. While Trump was in office I would normally note his crime of the day, but I usually skip the Trump stuff so far as what I read to my wife. But I read them to myself, and […]

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