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Monthly Archives: August 2018

Friday Night Music

Friday, August 31, 2018

This is Labor Day Weekend. I can’t claim to know the details of exactly how it became a holiday, but it’s always been my impression that it had something to do with…you know…labor. Working people. Unions. Nowadays, of course, no one cares about working people, except the ones who go to diners in the Midwest […]

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A rant

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Inasmuch as this is my blog, and I have now reached the age at which I can officially be deemed a curmudgeon, I am going to vent my spleen regarding a certain matter that has little if anything to do with politics, but quite a lot about why certain corporations are having their clocks cleaned […]

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The McCain myth

Sunday, August 26, 2018

Things move pretty quickly on the internet, so it’s no surpise that I’ve been beaten to the punch so far as McCain debunking goes. Here’s a pretty definitive account of his life. It’s not surprising that we’re being treated to waves of adulation by the mainstream press. He self branded himself a “maverick” in 2000, and […]

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The Democrats are the Red Sox of politics

Saturday, August 25, 2018

I have been a Red Sox fan all my life, albeit with varying degrees of intensity. When I was a lad of 10 or thereabouts I would listen to Curt Gowdy doing play by play late at night, my transistor radio tucked beneath my pillow. Many was the night that I suffered silently as they […]

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Susan Collins: Stupid, or hypocritical political hack? We report, you decide.

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Everything’s been said about Manafort and Cohen, so I’m going a bit in the weeds, since we all should remember that while that stuff is getting the headlines, the destruction of our democracy is ongoing. The lower courts have already been stuffed with racists and corporate whores, and the Supreme Court is about to be […]

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She’s not crazy, she’s a Republican

Monday, August 20, 2018

There was a time when this person would, without a doubt, have been the craziest person running for office in the entire country. A frontrunner in the Republican primaries for a key midterm race says she was abducted by aliens as a child—and it doesn’t seem to have hurt her prospects. Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, an […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, August 17, 2018

Aretha. Who else could it be? I can’t explain why this brought tears to me eyes, but it did.

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We know he’s guilty, Josh

Friday, August 17, 2018

I have a huge amount of respect for Josh Marshall, but I have a bit of trouble with his post this morning entitled We know Trump is Guilty. We’re Having a Hard Time Admitting it. Josh’s argument on guilt is ironclad, a lot of it summed up in this Doonesbury comic from some time back: […]

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She may have something there

Thursday, August 16, 2018

The recent report on sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy has even this ex-Catholic aghast. The utter cruelty is beyond belief. As a former scholar at Our Lady of Sorrows grammar school, where I lost my religion, I was particularly stunned by the story of the priest who abused a seven year old, then told […]

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Fake Everything

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

As the world becomes metaphorically smaller, more and more opportunities open up for grifters of all sorts. And I’m not, at least directly, talking about a certain stable genius. It turns out that many academics are publishing allegedly “peer reviewed” articles in fake academic journals: The story begins with Chris Sumner, a co-founder of the nonprofit […]

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