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Monthly Archives: June 2020

Logic Puzzle

Monday, June 29, 2020

The fact that the Russians offered the Taliban bounties on the lives of American and other soldiers has now been confirmed by multiple news outlets (including Fox!) and the British government. Today, this happened: During today’s press briefing Trump’s outgoing press secretary was asked if Trump had a message to Moscow about Russia’s bounty program. […]

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A sign of hope?

Friday, June 26, 2020

Is it possible that both siderism is dying a slow death, and that it’s demise will be brought about from the bottom of the media heap? Right now, I know of only one person in the national media who doesn’t play the both siderist game, and that would be Paul Krugman (see, e.g., today’s column), […]

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Bad Moon Rising

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

I didn’t practice criminal law, so I never had any reason to bone up on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, but the D.C. Circuit’s decision on the Flynn case baffles me. Well, not really. Given the makeup of the panel, I figured it was at least a 50/50 probability. But it’s difficult to see, […]

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Martha Marx gets some press

Monday, June 22, 2020

Many years ago this blog was instrumental in starting the New London chapter of Drinking Liberally. Like the blog, the chapter is still going, but unlike the blog, it’s still going strong. Our last few meetings have been held on Zoom, but like everyone else, we’re hoping that will not be a permanent situation. Among […]

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Trump’s people issue a challenge

Friday, June 19, 2020

I haven’t seen reference to this anywhere else, but as I’ve written before, though I won’t bank on the conclusions the Palmer Report draws from the facts, it usually presents actual facts: So now the Trump campaign is trying the bizarre desperate last ditch move of demanding that Joe Biden agree to more than the […]

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A Monumental Modest Proposal

Thursday, June 18, 2020

As the statues of the traitors and assorted genocidal monsters come down, it seems fitting that we consider raising monuments to people who deserve our recognition, which brings me to the book I am currently perusing, The Slaves Cause, by Manisha Sinha. It is a densely written history of the Abolitionist movement, and through its […]

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Heather can’t even say his name

Thursday, June 18, 2020

The person who represents the district in which I reside is a Republican, Heather Somers, who may be familiar to some as the person who ran as Foley’s running mate in 2014. Heather is well known in this area. She’s from Groton. She had no discernible effect on the election in 2014, and she has […]

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Never thought of it like this

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Just ran across this meme at Pharyngula. I well remember while I was studying for my theology degree at Our Lady of Sorrows Grammar School in Hartford, that certain actions of the Lord did not sit that well with us, such as the fact that unbaptized babies who died at birth were barred from Heaven […]

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Political Science, Monty Python Style

Monday, June 15, 2020

Shame on anyone reading this who is not a devotee of Crooks & Liars, and has therefore already read the post and watched the video I’m posting here, but for anyone who hasn’t seen it, it is, in my opinion, must see. Fox News’ coverage of the Seattle protests has taken another hit after the […]

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Second Modest Proposal of the Week

Friday, June 12, 2020

A few days ago Joe Biden allowed as he was worried that Trump would steal the election, though he was fairly sure that if Trump refused to leave the White House, the military would not back him up. Nonetheless, the legitimate fear exists that Trump will refuse to accept defeat. It would seem that it […]

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