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Monthly Archives: October 2018

Good, so far as it goes

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

So far as I know Paul Krugman is the only voice in the mainstream that calls out whataboutismand bothsiderism. His columntoday seems like a polite channeling of the always on target rants of Driftglass, a blogI highly recommend.  There’s a major difference, however. See if you can spot it in the excerpt below: False equivalence, portraying the parties as […]

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Friday Night Music, Something a bit different

Friday, October 26, 2018

I was trolling around at youtube trying to find something to put up tonight, when I chanced upon this video, which appears to be from a tribute to Mel Brooks, probably at the Kennedy Center. It’s a fun video, but also liked the fact that it brought back memories of a time when the President […]

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A blogger’s woes in the era of the Very Stable Genius

Friday, October 26, 2018

Back in the long ago days when we spent our time blogging about the loathsome Joe Lieberman, GWB, and the rest of them, you could normally wait until the evening to post some words of wisdom about the current state of affairs. Things are moving way to fast these days, and unless you are constantly […]

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So far, so good

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

A while back I suggested that the fate of the Boston Red Sox and the Democratic Party might be mysteriously linked this year, victims or beneficiaries of some cosmic force that survives on a diet of irony. I observed that the Democrats were the Red Sox of baseball, always capable of blowing it in the end. […]

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A year ago today

Friday, October 19, 2018

I keep a journal on my Ipad, and every day it displays entries from previous years. Besides chronicling my own boring life I’ve been making note of the doings of the very stable genius. Among other things I noted the following a year ago. The quotes in the entry below are from some internet source; […]

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The DCCC, an incompetent organization

Thursday, October 18, 2018

A few weeks ago I got a fairly suspicious voicemail from a recorded voice stating it was calling from the D-C-C-C. It did not use the term “Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. It advised me that I would soon be getting a absentee ballot and that I should make sure to fill it out and return […]

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More whining about messaging

Thursday, October 18, 2018

This postat Hullabaloo caught me eye. In it, Digby states the obvious about Republican tax cuts: It’s a simple scheme, really. Whenever they control the government they immediately pass massive tax cuts and massive increases in military spending, always promising that the wealthy and the corporations will pour all that money back into the economy and […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, October 12, 2018

This video raises the question: Why are the songs protesting the very stable genius being sung by 76 year olds. Maybe there are others out there, but I haven’t heard about them. I hope that’s the case. I do know that the Vietnam War, as bad as it was, was nowhere near the existential threat […]

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In the unlikely event that the Democrats don’t blow it…

Friday, October 12, 2018

Let me direct your attention to this thought provoking post at Naked Capitalism. The thrust of the argument made is that, should the Democrats not blow it, and they take one or more of the Houses of Congress this year, they should avoid investigations into Trump’s crimes and corruption, instead concentrating on promoting a legislative agenda, […]

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Friday Night Music-Jefferson Airplane

Friday, October 5, 2018

Marty Balin died last week, which made it easy to pick a band this week. This performance of Somebody to Love is clearly not lip synced. It’s from the Dick Cavett show, and David Crosby is apparently pitching in. I realize that Balin plays a sort of secondary part in this song, but I like […]

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