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Monthly Archives: April 2017

A word of caution re: Heather Somers

Monday, April 17, 2017

One of the good things that has happened (remember, always look on the bright side of life) since Trump lost the popular vote is the rise of the resistance movement, in its various and sundry groupings. We have several in this area. One downside of the movement is that it has attracted a lot of […]

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Still looking on the bright side

Friday, April 14, 2017

I have posted this video ever Good Friday since this blog began, but it has, perhaps, never been more salient. My original purpose was to mock religion, particularly the religion I learned at Our Lady of Sorrows, but there’s another, albeit equivocal, message here. There isn’t much of a bright side for poor Brian and […]

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Trump’s Foreign Policy

Friday, April 14, 2017

I’m a big Randy Newman fan, but inasmuch as Trump tends to go with the last thing he’s heard, it might not be a good idea for him to listen to this one. On the other hand, given the thumbs up so many of pundits (looking at you, Fareed) gave him for bombing Syria, maybe […]

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Everyone else must fail

Monday, April 10, 2017

Dean Baker rightfully calls out the Washington Post for suggesting, at one and the same time, that there is both a surplus and a shortage of workers, and that to alleviate the shortage, we should “reform” the social security disability system. At a time of unprecedented inequality, the Washington Post is quick to seize on […]

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Trump enablers

Saturday, April 8, 2017

Some people think the role of the press is to inform. Others appear to think its role is to propagandize. We do live in an era of fake news, typified by internet sites such as InfoWars, but there is a far more nuanced form of fake news that is even more dangerous. Case in point, […]

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Tales from the Dungeon (That would be Popple Dungeon)

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

This is a totally non-political post, at least that’s the plan. One of the stupider things we ever did was buy a vacation house shack in Chester, Vermont. It did not ruin us financially, only because we ended up renting it out for enough to cover the mortgage. Anyway, it is on Ethan Allen (street […]

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Just once I’d like to hear…

Monday, April 3, 2017

Mitch McConnell telling Chuck Todd why the Democrats should allow a vote on Gorsuch: “Look, we litigated that last year,” the Majority Leader stuttered. “The American people decided that they wanted Donald Trump to make the nomination, not Hillary Clinton.” via Crooks & Liars Just once I’d like to see someone, preferably a Democrat pushing […]

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That’s the way you do it

Monday, April 3, 2017

A few more remarks like this and I may start giving to the DNC again: On Friday, Democratic National Chairman Tom Perez told activists that anti-Trump protests “were hitting the Trump administration where it hurt,” and added that if Trump or his Republican minions had a problem with protesters considering his election illegitimate, well:“ I […]

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A media fixation

Saturday, April 1, 2017

I’ve mentioned before that we get three newspapers: the Boston Globe, the New York Times, and the New London Day. So I’m in somewhat of a position to perceive patterns, an example of which appears on the front page of the Globe this morning. Beneath an article about yet another Trump disaster is an article […]

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