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Monthly Archives: September 2020

Why I didn’t watch the debate, and won’t watch the next one

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

I didn’t watch last night’s debate, but then, if you read the title of this piece, you already knew that. I didn’t actually watch the Kennedy-Nixon debates, being only 10 at the time, but I did become aware, even then, that the “winner” was not the person who made the better argument, but the one […]

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A cynical pattern

Sunday, September 27, 2020

It’s not hard to detect this pattern. When Justice Thurgood Marshall, a giant of the civil rights movement died, the Republicans went out and found themselves a black person who could be counted on to help undo all of his achievements. They found him in Clarence Thomas. Now, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died. She was […]

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Our little Hitler

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Not much time for blogging these days. I am the treasurer of our local town committee, and it’s been a busy time, as I have to account for the multiple donations people are making in exchange for Biden signs, which are going like hotcakes. There’s a lot of frightened people out there, and they’re doing […]

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Now for something completely different

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

One of the mysteries of the internet is the lack of websites devoted to connecting people who collect Kabuki Theatre Stamps.My brother in law, is such a collector, and he’s had a tough time connecting up with other collectors. As we’re sure I have multitudes of such collectors as readers, or, that such collectors will […]

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Dershowitz takes unintentional aim at Fox

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Alan Dershowitz is suing CNN because: Alan Dershowitz, a retired Harvard Law professor, is seeking $300 million in a federal libel lawsuit against CNN, alleging that the news network attempted to damage his reputation by misrepresenting a statement he made during President Trump’s impeachment trial. … Dershowitz was one of several attorneys who represented Trump […]

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Sounds familiar

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

A few weeks back I “reviewed” Kurt Andersen’s book, Evil Geniuses, about the long game played by the American right to take over our political system. The increase in inequality was a prominent part of the book. I made the point in my post that Andersen didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know, but […]

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Proof positive. He really is stupid

Monday, September 14, 2020

These are hard times for part time bloggers like me. There’s an outrage an hour, but, for the most part, there’s nothing new to say about any given outrage, and how many times can you make the inevitable observation that had Obama committed said outrage it’s shelf life in the mainstream would have been longer […]

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A Good Samaritan

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

This is not about politics. It’s the only way I can express my appreciation to someone who did an extraordinarily good deed for me today, appreciation I failed to adequately express at the time. It’s also an admission that while I continue to have nothing good to say about organized religion it is also the […]

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Housekeeping

Monday, September 7, 2020

I just discovered that somehow comments were closed on this blog. I’m not sure how that happened. I have set them to be open again, but it will only apply to new posts. This post is just an experiment to make sure it works.

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Trumpers in the hands of an angry god

Saturday, September 5, 2020

As I’ve mentioned often, and also just recently, I have a degree in theology from Our Lady of Sorrows Grammar School, so I am totally qualified to speak on all matters of religion, and though I don’t actually believe in God anymore, I’m going to grant His existence for purposes of this post, for I […]

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