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Monthly Archives: July 2019

Chaos at the DCCC

Tuesday, July 30, 2019

I get calls from the DCCC on almost a weekly basis. Like a lot of other scam callers, they use phone numbers that are allegedly from towns near me. The last one was (supposedly) from Canton, I believe. I never give, because since the days of Rahm Emmanuel and even before that, they have favored […]

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An easy prediction

Sunday, July 28, 2019

There is a strain of thought among so-called never-Trumpers that there is a thing called Trumpism, and there is the Republican Party, and that they are two separate and distinct entities. The thinking, apparently, is that deep in the soul of the Republican Party there is a core of people who are not racists, not […]

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Back from the shadows again

Friday, July 26, 2019

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, as I am on vacation in the wilds of Vermont, going to the same places we go every year. Once again, we went to the Hapgood “Eatery” in Peru (that would be the Peru in Vermont, just down the road from the Bromley ski area), and once again, […]

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Fake News is a real thing sometimes

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

This has happened before, and it supports something the genius has been saying: there’s a lot of fake news out there. The fact is that most of the fake news supports him. Yesterday CNN had a panel of Texas female Republican. They were presented as representative of 2016 Texas females who voted for Trump. Nothing […]

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A suggestion

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Dave Collins, a columnist for the New London Day, lately covered himself in glory by exposing some shenanigans related to a proposed development, to be called Smiler’s Wharf (developers always name things after what they’re destroying), in Mystic. Former terrible Congressman Rob Simmons, now terrible Stonington first selectman, and Heather Somers, who I am ashamed […]

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Covfefe!

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

This post is only marginally about politics, but since this is my blog, and no one reads it anyway, I feel that I am justified in bloviating about a pet peeve. The only game I play against others on my phone and tablet is Words with Friends. I continue to play it even though the folks […]

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Covfefe!

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

This post is only marginally about politics, but since this is my blog, and no one reads it anyway, I feel that I am justified in bloviating about a pet peeve. The only game I play against others on my phone and tablet is Words with Friends. I continue to play it even though the folks […]

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Feeling anxious lately? Here’s why!

Sunday, July 14, 2019

Lately I’ve been feeling highly anxious, but until today I wasn’t sure why. I considered a number of possibilities, among them: The fact that the president of the United States is a narcissistic authoritarian bent on making himself a dictator even as he declines into senescence. The fact that the same president has stocked the […]

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Some things in life are bad…and now we’re losing MAD

Saturday, July 13, 2019

It’s almost enough to make you swear and curse. All things must pass, but that doesn’t mean we have to like it. Grieve with me then, for the passing of MAD Magazine, which is about to publish its last monthly issue. I grew up with MAD, and I owe the gang of idiots a debt […]

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A twitter mystery

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

I am not a prolific Twitter user. Most of the tweets I read are second hand, reproduced in blog posts or mainstream media. Still, I understand that it can be a useful tool if used judiciously and well. But here’s what I can’t understand. The following is not an unusual series of events when a […]

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