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Monthly Archives: March 2022

What could go wrong?

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Maybe I’m getting to be a curmudgeon in my old age. Maybe I’ve always been a curmudgeon, but this non-political article I just read sure got me into high curmudgeon. It’s about some scientists who have developed a “language” that they hope will be easily interpreted by the aliens to whom they intend to beam […]

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This is familiar

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

I have been voted out of every elective office here in the Town of Groton, which means I have also held each elective office, so I became familiar with the budget process. So this sounded familiar: The leadership of the Congressional Progressive Caucus voiced opposition to President Joe Biden’s $813 billion military budget request on […]

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Those were the days

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

So it turns out that there is a seven and a half hour gap in the White House phone records on the day of the insurrection. I was a Watergate fan. The summer the hearings were taking place I was lifeguarding at Indian Well State Park in Shelton, and when the hearings were taking place […]

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Democrats ready to attack?

Saturday, March 26, 2022

Could it be that the Democrats are finally going to start fighting fire with—-well, let’s be honest, a tiny flicker of a flame. Every lawyer knows that it is unethical for a judge to rule in a case in which the judge or a judge’s family member has a personal interest. Anyone who has familiarized […]

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True to form

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

One of the many failings of the mainstream media is its failure to point out that it’s a sure bet that if Republicans are accusing Democrats of something, they are either doing that very thing themselves or planning on doing so. Here’s the latest example I’ve come across: In his opening remarks at Judge Ketanji […]

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Curmudgeon time

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Ukraine is on everyone’s mind, and I’ve got nothing to add to the discourse, except Putin bad, Tucker bad, and Ukraine good. So, on to something trivial, which at the moment is all I can wrap my head around. Yesterday, the Senate voted for something unanimously. That alone should scare the daylights out of anyone, […]

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Tucker, the 21st century fifth columnist

Sunday, March 13, 2022

So, it appears that Putin considers Tucker Carlson to be one of his most valuable propagandists: On March 3, as Russian military forces bombed Ukrainian cities as part of Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of his neighbor, the Kremlin sent out talking points to state-friendly media outlets with a request: Use more Tucker Carlson. “It is […]

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Why am I not surprised?

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

It’s apparently a law of nature. The more a Republican accuses others of breaking the law, the more likely it is that they themselves are breaking that law: Tina Peters, a county clerk running as a Republican for secretary of state of Colorado, was indicted Tuesday evening on 10 criminal counts related to allegations that […]

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On what planet do these pundits reside?

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

How deluded do you have to be to snare a guest spot on the New York Times op-ed page? Today we are treated to an op-ed by Melissa Murray, who is a professor of law at New York University. It seems fairly clear that Professor Murray is unaware of the political developments taking place over […]

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Just wondering

Saturday, March 5, 2022

By no means am I trying to defend Melania Trump, who is a truly loathsome individual, but I often wonder just how much personal involvement she has in the various recent scams to which her name has been attached. There was the NFT scam from a few weeks ago, and now there’s yet another Trump […]

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