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Monthly Archives: May 2020

Yet one more complaint about wussy Democrats

Thursday, May 14, 2020

A couple of days ago I whined about the fact that Democrats operated from a defensive crouch, and that one way to keep them in that crouch was to throw the word “deficit” at them. Despite the fact that, as Krugman endlessly points out, the Republicans have been deficit hypocrites since 1980, the media treats […]

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Yes, it’s wrong, but…

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

I must say that after seeing all the coverage of armed militia men in Michigan standing up for their right to infect other people, I got a bit of a kick out of this bit of lawless behavior by someone on our side: The state is reconsidering its policy after a hacker released a script […]

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Crazy man on the loose and no one notices

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

This article about the press’s insistence on covering demonstrations by the right at which “more than a dozen” protestors show up, against a history of minimizing or ignoring anti-war demonstrations drawing 10s of thousands of people, got me thinking about another eternal media mystery. Why does the media insist on hardly noticing Trump’s ever increasing […]

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Friday Night Music, a song for the times

Friday, May 8, 2020

I first heard this song on a CD I bought back in 1992: American Dreamer, by Thomas Hampson. I never heard of the guy before, but he turned out to have a great voice. The album is a collection of songs by Stephen Foster. Unfortunately, while you can listen to his version on youtube, there’s […]

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Book Report and rant, all in one

Friday, May 8, 2020

It is probably fair to say that this nation has not been as divided as it is today since before the Civil War, so, if it’s true that those who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat it, it is more than advisable to look at the history of that very divided time. […]

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Time to shift the blame

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

We’ve all heard about the fact that the White House is sitting on numbers indicating that the pandemic will be getting worse over the next several weeks. Which would ordinarily make you wonder about this: The White House confirmed today that the Mike Pence-led coronavirus task force charged with leading this nation’s pandemic response will […]

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There’s an endless supply of Republican dupes

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Over at the Palmer report, they’ve noted that Trump just emitted a tweet in which he essentially admitted that he engages in “pump and dump”; that is, he uses people for his own ends then throws them under the bus when they are no longer of use. Even the Mooch has reacted to the tweet. […]

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You can’t joke about the genius

Saturday, May 2, 2020

So this afternoon my wife saw on her twitter feed that Al Franken had said this: Another piece of advice from the President: Trump suggested today that Americans wash their hands with boiling water. When asked to comment, Dr. Birx said, “the President was just spitballing.” — Al Franken (@alfranken) May 1, 2020 It turns […]

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Nobody could have known

Friday, May 1, 2020

I just got a new Ipad, and found to my distress that the blog editor I’ve been using for years is “no longer in the App Store”, meaning that when I copied by backup to the new Ipad, that App was nothing but an icon. I am now back to WordPress, which I haven’t really […]

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