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Monthly Archives: May 2020

Facebook is evil

Sunday, May 31, 2020

It is an unfortunate fact of American life that the rather tepid enforcement of our antitrust laws has now completely evaporated. Remember when Microsoft was sued or making it hard to change the default browser in Windows. IOs makes it impossible, but no one does anything about it. Far worse is Facebook, which is headed […]

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It’s them outside agitators!

Saturday, May 30, 2020

One of the things you can always count on with the right is that they constantly accuse others of crimes of which they have a near monopoly. I can remember, though I was not yet thirteen, hearing Southern racists complaining on TV that their (n-word here) were perfectly happy, and that it was those outside […]

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Say you aren’t Joe, Matt

Saturday, May 30, 2020

I’ve been writing this blog since early 2005. When I started, I was one among many Connecticut left wing bloggers, all of whom, so far as I know, have fallen by the wayside, blog wise, and confine themselves to twitter, a medium in which I have never felt particularly comfortable. Anyway, in those long ago […]

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Heavy, Man!

Saturday, May 30, 2020

Any long time readers surely know that I’m a big fan of Randy Newman. I have, heretofore, wholly subscribed to his theory of the origins of the Judeo-Christian religions, as set forth by the devil as he addresses god, in Randy’s largely unappreciated Faust: Some fools in the desertWith nothing else to doSo scared of […]

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Almost in words of one syllable

Friday, May 29, 2020

If you have any Trumper friends who can’t quite see the point of social distancing, mask wearing, or other rational responses to the current plague, you might try referring them to this article, which spells it out so clearly even a six year old could understand it. I realize that would mean a certain very […]

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Lessons learned

Friday, May 29, 2020

Susan Collins famously said that Trump would learn his lesson from his impeachment. She was absolutely right, and I think her opponents in Maine should admit as much in commercial after commercial in the state of Maine. For instance, Trump learned the lesson that he can sell weapons to the Saudis if he wants, no […]

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A Special Talent

Friday, May 22, 2020

It takes a special talent to fearlessly stand astride both sides of an issue, but our State Senator, Heather Somers, has it down to a T. Republicans these days must walk a fine line. They must satisfy their base while not alienating “moderate” Republicans who have not yet come to terms with the fact that […]

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C’mon Donald, You’re not supposed to say this out loud

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Gosh, the very stable genius just let a cat out of a bag, not that anyone hadn’t heard the cat mewling away in there. I mean, I thought Republicans were supposed to pretend that Fox is just another television network with a bunch of straight shooters, but here’s the genius tweeting us differently: Many will […]

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Evil is the only word for it

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

When does political corruption become malevolent evil? We’ve likely seen many instances, but in this time when politicians of all stripes are falling all over themselves to “thank” the people who are on the frontlines during this plague, this must surely take the cake: More than 40,000 National Guard members currently helping states test residents […]

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How stupid do you have to be to teach at Harvard Law?

Saturday, May 16, 2020

This is truly bizarre. A Harvard Law Professor is representing a couple of presidential electors who claim that they should be free to vote for anyone they want, despite state laws requiring them to vote for the candidate for whom they pledged to vote when they got on the ballot in the first place. But, […]

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