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Monthly Archives: March 2023

Happy Holiday!

Friday, March 31, 2023

Happy Indictment Day to all! May you celebrate this day at least twice more this year!

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Leave TikTok Alone!

Thursday, March 30, 2023

I’m not a TikTok user or fan, but I agree with a common take on the current attack on TikTok by Washington politicians of both political parties. TikTok may in fact be spying on Americans, but as the other social media giants might say: “Who among us isn’t?”. TikTok is being attacked because it has […]

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Is the earth round? Opinions differ!

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

When I was in college it was a given that the function of a teacher, particularly a science teacher, was to teach the facts. For instance, the earth is an orb, flattened at the poles a bit, but basically round. It was pretty much understood that if a student insisted on maintaining that the earth […]

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Fox argues again: we can’t commit libel because no sane person believes us

Saturday, March 25, 2023

Fox is once again defending a libel suit by claiming that no reasonable person could believe what they were hearing on its programs. Erin Murphy, the lawyer, was defending Fox against a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems in response to the network’s post-2020 election coverage. Dominion alleges that Fox knowingly and deliberately aired […]

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Two can play the censorship game

Thursday, March 23, 2023

When I read recently that Florida was considering a law that would allow any single parent to require that a book be removed from a school library, it occurred to me that it hadn’t occurred to the Florida Fascists that both sides could play that game. Turns out there’s a similar law in Utah, requiring […]

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A low level rant

Sunday, March 19, 2023

I get most of my news from various blogs. While they tend to be left of center sort of places, I think I’m fairly good at separating the wheat from the chaff, that is, fact from opinion. It occurred to me a few days ago that one must wonder why certain bloggers have not been […]

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Looking on the bright side-a bit

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Regular readers know that I always look on the bright side, or at least I do every Good Friday when I post a certain clip from Monty Python’s Life of Brian. But I’m about to look on the bright side again, or at least speculate that there may be a bright side. Nowadays, so far […]

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This makes too much sense to ever happen

Sunday, March 12, 2023

I’m a big fan of economist Dean Baker, who used to have a blog called Beat the Press, but is now behind a Patreon paywall. I’m a subscriber, and I thought I’d pass along the gist of his latest, as I think it makes a whole lot of sense, which is precisely why what he […]

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If they’re against it, they’re doing it

Sunday, March 12, 2023

One thing we lefties all realize is that the best way to figure out what crimes Republicans are committing is to see what they are accusing Democrats of doing. For instance, while they accuse Democrats of stealing elections, it is Republicans that are being convicted of voter fraud and Republicans that are suppressing the vote […]

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Something that might happen in an alternate universe

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

It occurred to me that there might be an opening in the GOP primaries for a candidate whose message is “I am sane” or words to that effect. I do think there remains within the Republican Party a significant segment of people who are not insane, but have simply failed to accept the fact that […]

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