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Monthly Archives: October 2020

Mutual Aid Society

Thursday, October 29, 2020

While reading this article, which relates Susan Collins’ firmly held belief that Roe v Wade is absolutely secure, it brought to mind a theory that I’ve been mulling over. Lisa Murkowski voted for Barrett, despite the fact that, if anything, she makes Kavanaugh, who Murkowski opposed, look like a liberal legal titan in comparison. Collins […]

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Which is it? Stupidity or criminal arrogance.?

Thursday, October 29, 2020

Stories like this merely make me curl further into a fetal position as November 3rd approaches. Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and senior adviser of President Donald Trump, privately bragged to journalist Bob Woodward in April about the president’s decision to shun the advice and opinions of health experts, just as the death rate from the […]

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He shares my angst

Saturday, October 24, 2020

I’ve mentioned before that I read the Boston Globe, primarily because my eldest works for them. They also have relatively decent comics, including Bill Griffith’s Zippy, of which I am a big fan. Griffith lives in East Haddam now, by the way, and often features local landmarks in his strip. Lately Griffith has been sharing […]

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I’m with Biden on this one

Saturday, October 24, 2020

I was not a Biden fan during primary season, and I continue to believe that several of the other candidates would make better presidents than him, inasmuch as I think they are more aware of what this country needs to recover from not just four years of fascism, but years and years of Republican misrule, […]

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A Sea of Troubles

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Here’s my story, it’s sad but true. About my troubles with CTBlue. It took my words and ran away. And was not fixed, for many a day For the benefit of anyone born after 1955, the above is sung to the tune of “Runaround Sue”. It is entirely possible that somebody, somewhere, noticed that this […]

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Who will document the atrocities?

Sunday, October 18, 2020

I ran across this article on my RSS reader today, and it brings to mind something that really should be foremost in our minds: the multitudinous ways in which the present Administration, aided and abetted by the entire Republican Party, has perverted our government. The truly depressing thing is that not only does this abuse […]

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Get yours now!

Thursday, October 15, 2020

I am pleased to report that what is sure to be the best book published this year is available for pre-order right now at Amazon. The fact that the author shares my last name and 50% of my genes is totally irrelevant to this assertion. Take my word for it. I’ve read it, and it’s […]

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Democrats playing the long game? If only.

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Anyone who has spent time reading this blog knows that I get a lot of my news from other left wing blogs or internet sites. One often needs to exercise a fair amount of judgment reading these sites. The facts are usually accurate but the spin put on those facts is often suspect. One such […]

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On second thought, Be Evil

Friday, October 9, 2020

I hadn’t realized that Google had abandoned what was once the opening phrase of its code of conduct: Don’t be evil. Just as well, since it and its “contractors” are, not to put too fine a point on it: evil: A year ago, 80 Google contractors employed by HCL America in Pittsburgh voted to unionize […]

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A little fun

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

I saw this on Crooks & Liars and I thought I’d pass it on. I enjoyed it. Having cut the cord, I didn’t know this guy even had a show on American TV. The last time I saw him (James Corden) was in a video of him and Paul McCartney driving around Liverpool.

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