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Monthly Archives: June 2025

SCOTUS destroys public schools

Friday, June 27, 2025

Today the Supreme Court ruled that bigots can control what is taught in public schools by claiming that they don’t want to have their children exposed to ideas that contradict the “religious principles” that they themselves are inflicting on their children. As Justice Sotomayor put it: Today’s ruling ushers in a new reality. Casting aside […]

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Some good news out of New York

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

The results are in from the New York mayoral primary, and not only have the voters of New York rejected Andrew Cuomo, they have chosen Zohran Mamdani, a progressive previously endorsed by Bernie and AOC. He’s someone the Democratic establishment, which has been so very successful at failing to find a message that appeals to […]

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Random rant

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

I’ve been writing this blog for more than 20 years now. In the beginning it was easy, because even though there were terrible things going on at times, there was still some grounds for optimism. Times have changed, and not only are current events scary and depressing, the points to be made are so obvious […]

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No King’s Day in Vermont

Saturday, June 14, 2025

My wife and I attended the demonstration here in Chester, Vermont, where we have a second home, mostly used by our kids, but we’re there this weekend. I enjoy taking pictures of the creative signs people come up with, and everyone is willing to have their pictures taken to show off their signs. The official […]

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Two criminals going after one another

Sunday, June 8, 2025

Everyone (well, everyone who counts) is getting a kick out of the end of the Trump/Musk bromance, though who knows how it will all end up. It was likely that there’d be at least a temporary parting of the ways, since they each have outsize egos, but you have to wonder if there will eventually […]

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1984 all over again

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

This happened a few days ago, but I was in Vermont this weekend and too busy to write right away. Since no one reads this blog anyway I’ll just go ahead. As the title to the post indicates, this is yet another Trump era event that makes one thing again that George Orwell knew what […]

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