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Daily Archives: May 20th, 2018

The Democratic Convention-a survivor’s reflections

Sunday, May 20, 2018

I now know why I wasn’t really all that enthusiastic about being a delegate to the state convention this year. It was some instinct, some nagging recollection from conventions past, and some premonition about the long slog this one, with all those contested nominations, was likely to be. I’m not complaining about the outcome. Not […]

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The Times reaches for its Thesaurus

Sunday, May 20, 2018

It’s been noted repeatedly across the internets that whenever a white male engages in a mass shooting (and it’s almost always a white male), the American media almost always gives him a partial excuse because he is a “loner”, implying some form of mental illness. We don’t see that sort of mental illness excuse advanced […]

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