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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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Second Modest Proposal of the Week

Friday, June 12, 2020

A few days ago Joe Biden allowed as he was worried that Trump would steal the election, though he was fairly sure that if Trump refused to leave the White House, the military would not back him up. Nonetheless, the legitimate fear exists that Trump will refuse to accept defeat. It would seem that it […]

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Rant/Modest Proposal

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Why is the left so bad at messaging? Case in point, the calls to Defund the Police. Any idiot who gave that phrase even one second of thought would come to the obvious conclusion that not only is it a stupid idea on the merits (defund translates to no funding, not lower funding), but would […]

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Another, yes another, Modest Proposal

Monday, March 30, 2020

It seems that the folks at Fox are at least a bit worried that they might have some legal liability for spreading disinformation about COVID-19. For a number of reasons I think the chance of such a suit being successful is low, given the First Amendment. I seem to recall that Fox defended a suit in Florida […]

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A modest proposal, amended

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Far be it from me to insist on a modest proposal when I am presented with evidence that there is an even more modest way to achieve one’s ends. A couple of days ago I suggested that we honor the genius by naming the current era The Trump American Plague, inasmuch as for reasons that I can’t fathom, […]

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Yet another modest proposal

Monday, March 16, 2020

It’s a curious thing. The person currently occupying the White House has traditionally named things after himself, yet there’s a fairly obvious thing to which he has failed to attach his moniker. Perhaps, somewhat surprisingly, he has been afflicted with false modesty. I certainly concede that I don’t like the guy, but I try to […]

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Yet another modest proposal, this time to help the Republicans

Thursday, November 21, 2019

First of all, I want to make clear that I had the germ of the idea for this post before I read Gail Collins column this morning, in which she suggests it’s time for the genius to throw Rudy under the bus. Parenthetically, the underside of that bus is now so crowded that Rudy would have to […]

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My most modest proposal to date

Thursday, August 22, 2019

The genius is all a-twitterbecause Denmark won’t sell Greenland. Everyone seems to think it’s a crazy idea. Even I did until I started thinking about it, but the more I’ve thought about it, the more I’m sure that it’s time for another Modest Proposal, for I’ve got an idea that I’m sure will gather bi-partisan support […]

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Another in an endless series of modest proposals

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

It appears that William Barr is about to be held in contempt of Congress, but, this being an era in which our judiciary is now overflowing with rightwing ideologues, it is highly likely that it will take years for court battles to enforce the citation to play out, by which time he will either be out […]

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