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Yet another modest proposal (or suggestion)

Sunday, September 24, 2023

I am currently in the process of proofreading my son’s second book. My primary job is to root out typos, spelling errors, grammatical mistakes, and inappropriate word choices. I am well qualified for this task, having undergone rigorous training by the nuns at Our Lady of Sorrows School. I probably outlined more sentences than some […]

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Yet another modest proposal

Monday, August 14, 2023

While reading this post over at Hullabaloo I got to wondering about two things about the Hunter Biden thing. I wondered, first, why it is proper to have a special counsel to go after someone who has never held a position in government and to investigate crimes in which there’s not a scintilla of evidence, […]

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Another modest proposal

Saturday, April 15, 2023

Now that we have evidence that Clarence Thomas has committed a crime by failing to report the “sale” of his house to his rich benefactor, who proceeded to let Clarence’s Mom continue to live there (rent free I’m sure) while paying for improvements to the place and the property taxes, it would seem that Clarence […]

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The democratic process in action

Thursday, August 11, 2022

I spent all of Tuesday (5:00 AM through 9:30 PM) working at my local polling place, checking in voters. Thankfully, I was assigned to the table where Democrats checked in, as it was more pleasant than dealing with Republicans would have been. A few thoughts. Primaries are one of those things that the Progressives gave […]

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Yet another modest proposal

Sunday, May 29, 2022

We read in this morning’s New York Times that the state of Texas has (and other states with fascist legislatures soon will) made it illegal for a corporation to decline to do business with gun makers and other merchants of death. In another era, this blatantly unconstitutional interference in interstate commerce would be considered…umm…I know!: […]

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Yet another modest proposal

Thursday, February 10, 2022

We learn here that Marjorie Taylor Greene has warned that Nancy Pelosi has unleashed the Gazpacho on the American people. Really. You can watch the video at the link. What a fund raising opportunity! Nancy should team with some well known chef of the Mexican persuasion and sell her Gazpacho to the millions of folks […]

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Yet another modest proposal

Sunday, September 12, 2021

Just read this post in which it is related that Joe Manchin sort of denied that he has regular meetings with oil lobbyists, as AOC has charged. The likelihood is that he was lying, or to be kind, stretching the truth farther than Gumby ever attempted to stretch. Lobbyists have to register. Wouldn’t it make […]

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A little ridicule could go a long way, a modest suggestion

Sunday, April 11, 2021

I’ve been reading Kurt Andersen’s Fantasyland, which argues that the United States, for a number of historical reasons which he explores, is particularly vulnerable to irrational behavior including, without limitation, extreme religiosity, susceptibility to grifters, and belief in conspiracy theories. It’s an entertaining read, and though sometimes I think he may be engaging in just […]

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A modest proposal, crushed!

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

I’m actually somewhat surprised at this. Even farther right “news” site Newsmax has joined Fox in walking back claims against Smartmatic and Dominion, both of which manufacture voting machines about which the whackjobs have spun no end of conspiracy theories. When these “news” sites are forced to air there retractions it drives the whackjobs wild, […]

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A Monumental Modest Proposal

Thursday, June 18, 2020

As the statues of the traitors and assorted genocidal monsters come down, it seems fitting that we consider raising monuments to people who deserve our recognition, which brings me to the book I am currently perusing, The Slaves Cause, by Manisha Sinha. It is a densely written history of the Abolitionist movement, and through its […]

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