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Monthly Archives: August 2021

Dying for the cause

Sunday, August 29, 2021

We were up in Vermont this weekend, and while I was there, I thought that if I could overcome my laziness, when I got home I might try to make a list of all the talk radio types (all of whom are right wing, of course) who have died of COVID. Seems it’s already been […]

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Democrats being meanies!

Friday, August 27, 2021

I was well and truly shocked by this: Texas’s Speaker of the House warned representatives in the Texas State House on Thursday night not to use the word “racism” when debating the Republicans’ voter suppression bill.. Speaker Dade Phelan, a Republican, started debate on the bill by saying “the chair would appreciate members not using […]

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What fools these mortals be

Thursday, August 19, 2021

I believe I have written in previous blog posts that one should not believe a word from anti-vaxxers who insist they are merely waiting for FDA approval. The idiocy is far too ingrained for that almost reasonable sounding dodge to be plausible. Latest piece of evidence: It would seem that Bradley County Emergency Medical Services […]

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No one could have predicted

Monday, August 16, 2021

The fall of the puppet Afghan government. No one totally unfamiliar with history that is.

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A bit of a rant about today’s courts

Sunday, August 15, 2021

I’m no longer a practicing lawyer, but I’m still interested in legal developments. We now have a federal court system dominated by ideologues for whom the disinterested application of legal principles is important only insofar as the courts will feel obliged to cloak their decisions in language that they can claim shows said disinterested application, […]

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Dean Baker has a modest proposal

Saturday, August 14, 2021

Sometimes you read something, and it strikes you at once that the writer’s point is obvious, and that it will still come to nothing. So it is with this article by Dean Baker, in which he urges the Fed to do and publish research on the likely effects of climate change on the United States […]

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How to win elections if you’re a Republican

Monday, August 9, 2021

By all accounts, Ron DeSantis is committed to killing as many Floridians as necessary to advance his own political fortunes. The only conclusion one can draw from his behavior is that he firmly believes that those fortunes will be enhanced if he is a national leader in openly and devoutly doing all the wrong things […]

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Masking up

Friday, August 6, 2021

I must confess I am a bit “mask hesitant”. The CDC has recommended that we once again wear masks in public places, something I was perfectly willing to do last time around, but… It’s a matter of personal freedom! I have been vaccinated, and I have little to fear from the Delta variant, even if […]

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