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Monthly Archives: November 2020

Hypocrisy in America

Monday, November 30, 2020

It’s hardly news that modern day Republicans are hypocrites of the first order. Here’s the latest example-actually probably not the latest as it’s some hours old, but it’s illustrative: Republicans have now decided the tax returns of nominees and people in power matter, as they want to scrutinize Biden’s nominees. Outgoing Senate Finance Chairman Sen. […]

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Has the mainstream learned from bloggers?

Saturday, November 28, 2020

I’ve been reading the Political Animal blog for years, and I generally agree with them, but I’m not sure about this particular piece. Political blogging was born in the Bush years, peaked under Obama, and mostly died in the Trump Era. The decline is partly explained by the mainstream media adopting some of blogging’s strongest […]

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Some Fancy Legal Footwork in the future

Thursday, November 26, 2020

The Supreme Court, compliments of the newest addition to that once august body, has made another dent in constitutional law and advanced us a step further toward theocracy, ruling as it has that the state has no right to protect its citizens from a plague if a religious entity insists on spreading said plague. I’ve […]

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Just a reminder

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Amazon is Evil. Buy elsewhere.

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I believe I’ve made this point before

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Recently I added Eric Boehlert’s Press Run to my RSS feed. I can highly recommend it, though one might argue that he simply makes the same points as Driftglass, but less colorfully. Still, these are issues that must be raised, though as I’ll get to later, they don’t seem to make a dent in Establishment […]

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Random thoughts

Monday, November 23, 2020

A few days ago I noted, as I probably have in other posts, that Republicans are big on projection, which in this context I’m defining as accusing others of one’s own crimes. I thought I’d pass on a few more examples. Here’s a good discussion at the Guardian of the decades old right wing talking […]

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Something obvious but rarely mentioned

Friday, November 20, 2020

Just a short observation, prompted by this article in today’s New York Times, which details yet more criminal activity on the part of a pre-presidential Donald Trump. We learn from the article that Trump avoided taxes by diverting money to his daughter for “consulting fees”. It is rarely mentioned that if we had a legal […]

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A few things to gloat about

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Just a few things to which we can look forward. You know, Schadenfreude. Mary Trump said recently that Donald will never have another good day, and we can look forward to a few things that will make those days even darker. Barack Obama’s book will be number one on the best seller lists, and that […]

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Projection much?

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Just passing along yet another instance of Republicans doing what they are accusing others of doing: Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley has frequently railed against “coastal elites” in speeches. Last year, he sponsored legislation that would relocate thousands of federal workers from Washington to economically distressed areas in the heartland. But a review of property records […]

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A look ahead

Monday, November 16, 2020

Toward the end of last year I posted my predictions about the coming year. Those that can be tested against reality have stood up fairly well, though I obviously did not predict the plague, and my prediction about Justice Ginsburg was negated by her death. But right now I’m thinking about this part of the […]

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