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Monthly Archives: August 2020

I miss the good old days

Saturday, August 15, 2020

I am now in the midst of my 71st summer, which would be a depressing thought even if there were no pandemic and/or the White House was not occupied by a blithering idiot. But there are advantages to everything, and in this case my march toward senility gives me the right to pontificate about how […]

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The real reason for getting rid of the payroll tax

Thursday, August 13, 2020

I just finished reading this article, which demonstrates that Trump’s desire to get rid of the payroll tax and fund social security from general revenues is not feasible. The article demonstrates once again that those of us on the left often, almost always, fail to appreciate that Republicans take the long view of things. This […]

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Who could have predicted the need for this?!

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

The ACLU has called for the Dismantling of the Department of Homeland Security. Some people sort of thought from the beginning that if you give something an Orwellian name it would probably start doing Orwellian things. Of course the people saying that were the people to whom the Very Serious People never listen.

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A valuable resource

Friday, August 7, 2020

I should probably tweet this, inasmuch as I am really only passing along a link. McSweeney’s has provided a valuable service. A day by day accounting of the atrocities, since Trump became president, with some preliminary atrocities included for good measure. My guess is that it’s not exhaustive; that would be impossible, and there’s lots […]

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Something to think about

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

We are taught to believe that the men who framed the constitution were infinitely wise, but in fact, the government they framed was flawed in many respects. Ben Franklin was quoted as saying that they had framed a “Republic if you can keep it”, but in many ways the constitution itself makes keeping a republic […]

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