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Category Archives: Creeping Totalitarianism

A quick glance at my crystal ball

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

I received the latest issue of Church & State today. It’s a publication of Americans United for the Separation of Church & State, an organization which should not even have to exist, but alas, it is sorely needed. The lead article is about a challenge that Americans United, along with other usual suspects like the […]

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New Front runner (if you disregard Trump)

Friday, August 25, 2023

Vivek Ramaswamy He’s the guy who will get the Republican nomination if Trump doesn’t. Like just about everyone else in America I never heard of the guy until recently, and up until today I simply classified him as a Republican rich guy with a big ego, but after Wednesday’s debate, and reading this article at […]

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Friday Night Music makes a reappearance

Friday, August 11, 2023

Along with some musings on our uncertain future. I chanced upon this video a few months ago. It features Rhiannon Giddens and Paul Simon singing Simon’s American Tune. I put it on my to-do app to post the following Friday, and I’ve been putting it forward a week ever since, for reasons too diverse to […]

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There’s nothing new about the Republican drive toward fascism

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Who knows, maybe I’ll be able to beat Driftglass on this one, yet another example of Never-Trumpers rewriting history to, among other things, obscure their own roles in bringing us to the sorry state in which we find ourselves. Charlie Sykes and Joe Scarborough can’t figure out why Trump supporters are willing to destroy Democracy. […]

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Every allegation is a confession, part 1000

Monday, July 17, 2023

There’s probably not a single liberal type blogger who hasn’t commented about the fact that every time a Republican accuses a Democrat, or Democrats, of something heinous, it is a sure bet that it is something Republicans are already doing or planning to do. I suppose it’s possible that someone in the mainstream media, possibly […]

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A challenge for Clarence

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

In most of the mainstream media coverage of the recent Supreme Court decision allowing a person who has never been asked to design a website for a gay couple to refuse to design a website for a gay couple, an obvious corollary to the court’s ruling is never mentioned. If I can refuse services to […]

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Somewhat good news?

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

So, the Supreme Court has rejected the so called “independent state legislature” theory, , a legal argument so flimsy that in my law school days, had anyone attempted to make the argument in a constitutional law class, he or she would have failed. But, all is not lost for the fascists and racists pushing this […]

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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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