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Monthly Archives: December 2018

Bye Claire

Thursday, December 27, 2018

It would have been nice had Claire McCaskill been re-elected, had that re-election led to a Democratic Senate, but as it is, good riddance. It seems Claire has the same advice for Democrats that Republicans keep giving us. We should stop suggestingthat we want to do nice things for people and express concern for white working […]

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Bone spur reflections

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

I had thought of making this yet another modest proposal, but, for reasons I’ll get to, I’ve rejected that approach. Anyone with half a brain has been morally certain that Trump’s bone spur draft exemption was a fraud, but today we have substantial evidenceto back that up. I was going to propose that the Democrats start […]

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Sounds familiar

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

The New York Times has an articletoday about Hungary, which is an autocracy masquerading as a democracy. Other than a brief mention that Steve Bannon is a fan of dictator in all but name Viktor Orban, the article doesn’t draw any comparisons with these United States, but it’s awfully difficult to read the article and not […]

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Beto redux

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

This is truly irritating. A couple of days ago I passed on a blog post passing on an article by David Sirota in which Sirota argued that Beto O’Rourke was a pseudo progressive. There is substantial evidence that this is simply a Bernie backer (I don’t think there’s any evidence that Bernie is directly involved) […]

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One of life’s mysteries

Sunday, December 23, 2018

Just saw a truly funny comic in the latest issue of Funny Times, a publication I highly recommend. Essential bathroom reading. Anyway, here’s the comic: Now, I have a great deal of respect for women, but like the poor fellow in the cartoon, I can’t understand why they can’t understand a simple equation like the […]

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My bad on Beto

Saturday, December 22, 2018

I know that there’s been a surfeit of crazy the last few days, but events move too fast for a hobbyist blogger, so let me start simply by saying that I was definitely not wrong when I diagnosed Individual-1 as being seriously mentally ill. Everything else that has to be said about recent events has […]

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Can’t stop laughing at this

Friday, December 21, 2018

I came across this picture when I followed a twitter link. As I’ve said before, I don’t know how to embed tweets, and I humbly apogize for my inability to give credit to the brilliant mind that put this together. Everytime I look at it I laugh.

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A Goodbye to the Flim-Flam Man

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Paul Ryan will be leaving us soon, and the folks at McSweeney’s are marking the occasion. I got a kick out of it. Here’s the start: Sing to me, O Fox Muse, of that noodle-spined hero who traveled far and wide, born in Janesville, Wisconsin, the last born son of Dracula and a polo shirt. Many […]

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A bit of speculation

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

I don’t pretend to know all that much about British politics, but it strikes me that the Conservative Party is suffering from one of the anti-democratic maladies for which the Republican Party has become notorious. Apparently, the British people, if given the chance, would vote to reverse the Brexit vote.It was, after all, the result of […]

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How do these idiots rise to the surface?

Monday, December 17, 2018

Okay, I guess if you run a propaganda network, you’ll give a forum to anyone. Here’s a person who has a columnin the New York Post, who’s invited on to Fox to talk about his suggestion that Trump supporters pay for the wall by starting a GoFundMe campaign: Trump surrogates in the conservative media are so […]

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