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Monthly Archives: December 2020

Too early to look ahead

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Normally, at this time of the year, I write a post with my predictions for the coming year. Here’s last year’s, which holds up reasonably well, considering I had no reason to predict a pandemic when I wrote it. I did have reason, given her age, to suspect that Ruth Bader Ginsburg might not make […]

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Both siding it at the Times

Sunday, December 27, 2020

The New York Times tells us that early doubters are now showing a willingness to take the vaccine. That’s nice. But check out their roll of early doubters: The time frame was dangerously accelerated, many people warned. The vaccine was a scam from Big Pharma, others said. A political ploy by the Trump administration, many […]

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Sad, but likely true

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

I fear that Driftglass has once again hit the nail on the head.

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A modest proposal, crushed!

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

I’m actually somewhat surprised at this. Even farther right “news” site Newsmax has joined Fox in walking back claims against Smartmatic and Dominion, both of which manufacture voting machines about which the whackjobs have spun no end of conspiracy theories. When these “news” sites are forced to air there retractions it drives the whackjobs wild, […]

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Some Good News

Monday, December 21, 2020

It is an odd thing that while some truly horrible things are going on in plain sight, though for reasons unknown our media tends to ignore or downplay the worst of them, like the President of the United States contemplating stealing an election by declaring martial law,other things are happening that should give us at […]

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Worth thinking about

Sunday, December 20, 2020

Here’s an interesting op-ed piece in the Boston Globe, by a fellow named Josh Bernoff. The premise is that in this social media age, most people are exposed to what they want to hear, largely due to algorithms that feed “both sides” the facts and opinions they are predisposed to believe. This, in turn, has […]

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Yet another post about weak Democrats

Friday, December 18, 2020

A day or so ago Little Marco tweeted out how outraged he was that Biden aide Jen O’Malley Dillon called Republicans “fuckers” in an interview in Glamour magazine. Before I go on, let me be clear that the source of his outrage was not the fact that some Republicans are not fuckers at all, such […]

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Home Grown Grifter avoids the spotlight

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

A few days ago I mentioned to my wife that Linda McMahon, who failed to buy a Senate seat here in Connecticut despite two tries-much to the credit of Connecticut voters- had managed to avoid being openly corrupt in her administration of the Small Business Administration. But that doesn’t mean that the agency hasn’t been […]

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The court has spoken

Saturday, December 12, 2020

To no one’s great surprise,the Supreme Court has rejected the ridiculous suit in which some 17 Republican Attorney Generals, 120 plus Republican Congressmembers, and two fictitious states sought to cast aside the votes of millions of Americans. Contradictions were rife, including the fact that they sought a ruling that voting procedures should be declared unconstitutional […]

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A delicious irony

Monday, December 7, 2020

I haven’t seen this noted elsewhere, though no doubt it has. It is a somewhat delicious irony that Brian Kemp, who most assuredly stole his own election, has been rather up-front about leaking the fact that he told Trump to shove it when Trump asked for similar treatment.Trump, after all, must be aware of Kemp’s […]

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