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Monthly Archives: February 2025

Yet another thing you couldn’t make up

Saturday, February 22, 2025

This is getting bizarre: Federal workers began receiving emails Saturday asking them to explain what work they did last week, as Elon Musk announced that “failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.” “Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager. Please do […]

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Still a genius!

Thursday, February 20, 2025

I realize that documenting the inanities is getting tiresome, but here’s one that really struck me: REPORTER: Doge and SpaceX employees are now working directly at the Federal Aviation Administration and the Defense Department agencies that have billions of dollars in contracts with Musk’s companies or that directly regulate his companies. How is that not […]

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Moscow Mitch having second thoughts?

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Mitch McConnell has now distinguished himself as being, possibly, the Republican Senator who has voted against more of Trump’s nominees than any other Republican. It goes without saying that he deserves no accolades for this accomplishment, given that 1) not one of the nominees was remotely qualified for the position for which he or she […]

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Friday Night Music, a brief return

Friday, February 7, 2025

Haven’t done this for awhile. I played an old Randy Newman album recently and when this song came up my wife observed that it’s a little too close to official policy these days. When Randy wrote it I’m sure he thought he was targeting a small segment of the population, but nowadays it bids fair […]

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The dictator(s) steps up

Thursday, February 6, 2025

I just read that Trump has signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from women’s and girl’s sports. It goes without saying that there is no legal basis for such an order. It is possible that a state legislature and/or Congress could pass a bill that would pass constitutional muster but any reasonable court would […]

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The lesser of two evils

Monday, February 3, 2025

One of the bloggers over at the Palmer Report has pleaded for an invocation of the 25th Amendment to get rid of Trump. Now, I agree that in a sane world it would be the right thing to do, but this is not a sane world, or at least a sane country. First of all, […]

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