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Category Archives: The Very Stable Genius

Those were the days

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

So it turns out that there is a seven and a half hour gap in the White House phone records on the day of the insurrection. I was a Watergate fan. The summer the hearings were taking place I was lifeguarding at Indian Well State Park in Shelton, and when the hearings were taking place […]

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The vultures are circling

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

These are discouraging times, but we must take our pleasures where we can. It is somewhat satisfying to watch things play out in the courts as the genius is faced with the reality that he is no longer entitled to the bogus presidential immunity that has somehow become black letter law in this country. The […]

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Trump loses in court yet again

Thursday, February 17, 2022

So the genius and his offspring have been ordered to appear for depositions in New York. (Just one of many stories here). And, sort of by the way, where does he find these lawyers who don’t seem to be either stable or geniuses? But I digress. He’ll appeal, but it’s a state case, so the […]

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The rich are different from you and me

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

If you are an inveterate reader of blogs, as am I, in addition to or in lieu of the mass media, you have no doubt read lots of speculation about the chances of Trump being indicted. I didn’t practice criminal law, as I learned early on that in that area of practice, it’s ordinarily two […]

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Some things won’t fit in a memory hole

Monday, November 22, 2021

At the dawn of 2020 I made some predictions about the coming year. Some of them have stood the test of time, others have come true, but not in the way I predicted. For instance I predicted that Chuck Shumer and Joe Biden would preserve the filibuster. I didn’t see Joe and Krysten coming. On […]

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Another crushing defeat for Trump

Friday, July 2, 2021

Some might think, judging by the title of this post, that I will be bloviating about the recent indictment of the Trump Organization. While that might be well worth the bloviating, this post bloviates elsewhere: Historians: Trump Was Only the Fourth-Worst President of All Time Today, C-SPAN released its Presidential Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, […]

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A book report of sorts

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

A while back I attended a Zoom seminar hosted by my Alma Mater. The guest presenter was David A. Bell, a professor from Princeton, who was there to talk about his new book Men on Horseback, The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution. It is a study of the role charismatic leaders played […]

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Our little Hitler

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Not much time for blogging these days. I am the treasurer of our local town committee, and it’s been a busy time, as I have to account for the multiple donations people are making in exchange for Biden signs, which are going like hotcakes. There’s a lot of frightened people out there, and they’re doing […]

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Proof positive. He really is stupid

Monday, September 14, 2020

These are hard times for part time bloggers like me. There’s an outrage an hour, but, for the most part, there’s nothing new to say about any given outrage, and how many times can you make the inevitable observation that had Obama committed said outrage it’s shelf life in the mainstream would have been longer […]

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Trump admits guilt

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

One thing that’s little remarked among the punditry, perhaps because it’s so hard to make a both siderist case about it, is the Republican habit of projection. If they’re doing it, they’re loudly accusing the Democrats of doing it. They even had the chutzpah to claim that the Democrats were trying to destroy Medicare. They […]

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