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A step too far?

Sunday, January 29, 2023

It is a political fact of life in this country that Republicans get themselves elected by distracting their base, inasmuch as their actual priorities consist mainly in screwing that base. It always reminds me of the Bob Dylan song, Only a Pawn in Their Game, that taught me as a young teen about the political […]

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A look back

Sunday, January 22, 2023

I’ve mentioned before that I keep a journal, usually consisting of only a few paragraphs a day. Back in the Trump years I would normally devote a few paragraphs to the latest crimes, etc. Every day I look back at the “On This Day” feature to see what was happening “on this day” in prior […]

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George Santos again

Friday, January 20, 2023

I have tried to confess on those rare occasions (well, I say they’re rare!) when I’ve been wrong, but in this case I have an excuse. When the George Santos story first reared its head, or at least first came to the attention of the wider population, I predicted that it would soon fade, as […]

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A typical case of American Blind Justice

Saturday, January 14, 2023

Isn’t this great? On Friday, the former President’s namesake company, the Trump Organization, was sentenced to pay the state $1.6 million in fines. That is the maximum allowed by law. I would be willing to bet that the state of New York spent more than $1.6 million dollars to get the guilty verdict (remember, it […]

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Nothing new under the sun

Friday, January 13, 2023

My professorial son got me Stacy Schiff’s The Revolutionary Sam Adams for Christmas. It’s actually the third Adams biography I’ve read, but being the geezer that I am, I can’t recall whether the previous biographies emphasized the part of Adam’s history about which I’m writing now. Adams was a prolific writer/propagandist. He started what might […]

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Sometimes being a lawyer can be fun

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Every once in a while even a lawyer gets the opportunity to let his or her snark flag fly. I really got a kick out of the letter Dr. Dre’s (real name Andre Young) lawyers sent to Marjorie Taylor Greene after she used some of his music in a twitter video she made. You can […]

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Good points

Saturday, January 7, 2023

Thursday night we celebrated the 15th anniversary of the New London Drinking Liberally group that I helped found what seems like eons ago. We’ve had folks come and go, but there’s some who have been coming for all of those 15 years. Last night one of those veterans brought me an article he had printed […]

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Couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy

Thursday, January 5, 2023

It’s been rather delicious watching the Speaker battle play out. McCarthy is an amoral sleaze, and he deserves all the humiliation he can get. This is a unique situation. I usually have a decent idea of how things will end up as things unwind in Washington, or at least I have an opinion, but in […]

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Tom Paine to get his due

Sunday, January 1, 2023

I just stumbled upon this article, which I consider somewhat shocking (given our current march toward fascism) but great and long past due news. The Thomas Paine Memorial Association (TPMA) is pleased to announce that on December 27, 2022, President Biden signed a congressional bill to endorse a monument dedicated to the life and work […]

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