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Monthly Archives: January 2024

Billionaires against truth

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Not for a minute do I believe that the billionaires attempting to destroy higher education in this country are truly concerned about anti-Semitism. It’s merely the hook that has been given to them as the result of the war in Gaza. The point is to remodel higher education to turn it into a tool for […]

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God sure works in mysterious ways

Monday, January 29, 2024

Here in the New London area lots of people are wondering why God chose to demolish a beautiful stone church that has graced downtown New London since the middle of the nineteenth century rather than, say, a den of iniquity somewhere. But, as they say, he works in mysterious ways. The incident in New London […]

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Grifters Gotta Grift

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Couldn’t resist passing this along. It truly is the case than on multiple levels the Republican Party is just a massive grift. After all, the business plan is to get Fox-addled minds to cast votes against their best interest so the Republicans can deliver for their real constituency, the selfish rich, by sucking money from […]

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New Hampshire speaks

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

…and now everyone can argue about what they said. I think it’s fair to say that reactions to yesterday’s vote are all over the map, often depending on the spin one wants to put on things. Trump won, though I understand that in terms of delegates to the convention, he came away with a small […]

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For Republicans, Trump’s Dementia may be a plus

Saturday, January 20, 2024

It is becoming increasingly clear that the very stable genius may not be stable or a genius, and may in fact be slipping (or should that be “plunging”) into dementia. He recently blamed Nikki Haley for failing to do something about the attackers on January 6th, clearly mixing her up with Nancy Pelosi. This is […]

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If they accuse others you know they’re doing it themselves

Saturday, January 13, 2024

I am certainly not the first to make the observation encapsulated in the title of this post. If a Republican accuses a Democrat, or Democrats generally, of certain behaviors, it is almost a given that said Republican is doing those things. I thought I’d pass the latest one along, as it is happening in our […]

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Shocking news: Trump refuses to lie! Or does he?

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

I was truly shocked when I read this. Never before, in his entire life, has Donald Trump refused to lie, but he just did! President Joe Biden’s campaign knocked former President Donald Trump on the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack for refusing to sign an Illinois loyalty oath that says he […]

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All the words are in English but…

Saturday, January 6, 2024

We’re all used to politicians, particularly the lying liars in the Republican camp, responding (I won’t use the word “answering” as that doesn’t quite describe it) to questions by spewing a word salad that not only does not answer the question, but is often incomprehensible. But politicians are hardly alone in coming up with whole […]

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They don’t know much about history, but they still get to write it

Friday, January 5, 2024

Scott Lemieux, over at Lawyers, Guns and Money, notes that some in the media have now started to both sides the insurrection. The headline of the piece to which he links reads: One attack, two interpretations: Biden and Trump both make the Jan. 6 riot a political rallying cry. The text he excerpts from the […]

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On this day (actually on yesterday) in Trump history

Thursday, January 4, 2024

I keep a sort of journal, usually only a few paragraphs a day. No Thoreau or Pepys am I, but during the Trump years I usually put in something about whatever idiotic thing the stable genius did on that particular day. The journal is on my Ipad, and it has an “On This Day” feature […]