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Monthly Archives: January 2025

A theory

Friday, January 31, 2025

The recent controversy about the Trump administration’s impoundment of federal funds, the quick judicial injunction against it, and the quick backtrack by the Trumpers is evidence for a theory of mine. Or maybe call it speculation. First, a couple of axioms before I attempt my proof. So here’s my theory. As noted above the people […]

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The madness continues

Sunday, January 26, 2025

It’s getting harder and harder to think up anything to write about that isn’t already obvious to anyone who might stumble across this blog. The madness continues, but has been entirely predictable. It hardly seems necessary to document the atrocities, since they are so obvious. I do think I have to say a word about […]

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Biden reflect on his mistakes

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Joe Biden now realizes he made some mistakes during his time in office: President Joe Biden — in an interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell that aired Thursday and which was Biden’s last TV sit-down as POTUS ? reflected on his failure to hype up his and Democratic accomplishments when in office. “The mistake we made […]

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What about Connecticut!

Saturday, January 11, 2025

A Canadian MP has graciously offered to take several states off of Donald Trump’s hands, pointing out that it would relieve the Orange Felon of states that vote rationally. Well, she said states that vote Democratic, but it’s pretty much the same thing. She offered to take California, Oregon, and Washington, and then upped the […]

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A model for the future

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

For reasons I won’t go into, I recently had to deal with a number of books that have been in a bookshelf in our spare bedroom for years. Among them was a three volume history of Connecticut. I decided to read it, or re-read it, as I honestly can’t remember whether I read it when […]

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Trump’s picks: Only the Best!

Sunday, January 5, 2025

Back when she called herself a Democrat, and was running for President, a couple of folks I know actually supported Tulsi Gabbard’s candidacy. One was a person close to me genetically but rather far off politically, but the other was a person whose politics had been perfectly reasonable. I could never understand either one’s rationale, […]

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