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Monthly Archives: June 2022

A bit of a surprise yesterday, and…

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

And some more or less random observations. First, to the surprise. I’ve been watching the January 6th hearings on my IPad, and I think they’ve been quite useful, but until yesterday nothing I heard surprised me. Most of it was already known, and what wasn’t already known fit so neatly into the Trumpian pattern that […]

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Is Fox ditching Trump?

Monday, June 27, 2022

One has to wonder. I don’t even have a TV, and if I did, I’d still let the folks at Crooks & Liars watch Fox for me, but from what a gather from reading about the folks at Fox, and Brian Kilmeade in particular, one must wonder if a decision has been made that it […]

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The court will find a way

Thursday, June 23, 2022

When I first read this column from the New York Times I thought: Hey, this is great: What a week so far for conservatives. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court struck down a Maine law that prohibited religious private schools from receiving taxpayer dollars. And on Thursday, it invalidated a New York State gun safety law […]

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A midsummer night’s rant

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Two years ago I ranted on this blog about the left’s inability to craft its message, in that case excoriating whatever leftist (if he or she wasn’t a right wing mole) crafted the phrase “defund the police”. There are two sides to the left’s failure in this regard. Not only do we fail to craft […]

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Report card so far

Saturday, June 11, 2022

I don’t have a television, so I will be watching the January 6 hearings on YouTube, most likely not when they originally stream, but I’ll catch them in repeats. Some readers (assuming there are any) might expect me to have a cynical take on them, but, at least so far, I think things are going […]

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Ponzi, updated

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

I admit that I have never been able to understand cryptocurrency. The idea that one can create value by wasting electricity and/or solving mathematical problems that no one cares about escapes me. Even an NFT is at least a sort of a thing, which one gets in exchange for one’s money, though I find it […]

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Schadenfreude of the day

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Try as I might (and I’m not really trying), I can’t seem to dredge up any sympathy for the folks who got conned by Madison Cawthorn and his friend’s Let’s Go Brandon (LGB) cryptocurrency scam. Seems the “value” of the currency went way up shortly after Cawthorn endorsed it at the end of last year, […]

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