Monday, June 06, 2016

I can't go on

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I don't plan to leave a grave, or a headstone.  It is my sincere desire to be cremated, and kept in a shoebox in a desk drawer owned ...
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How do you do it?

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 And the answer is:  fairies and unicorns! But you'd still likely face Paul Ryan as your negotiating partner. And I'm trying ...
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Sunday, June 05, 2016

The Children's Hour stretches on

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Clearly this is further evidence that the system is rigged : Hillary Clinton scored a sweeping win in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Satu...
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Saturday, June 04, 2016

Ken Paxton brings the kerosene

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The barn is on fire, the horse is out, and Ken Paxton brings the kerosene : Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton moved Friday ...

This just in! Africa is not a race!

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Funny, he doesn't look like Mexico. But Donald Trump is still a racist. Bloomberg journalist Mark Halperin said Friday that Donal...
Friday, June 03, 2016

Everything Old Is New Again, Watch

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No, not that kind of watch! Really, I should start a tag. So here again technology is going to fundamentally change our world and t...
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Context is all.

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This may turn into something: The state’s consumer protection division, working for then-Attorney General Greg Abbott, sought permi...
Thursday, June 02, 2016

"Where are you going, where have you been?"

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Where's all the lady people?  Here we go again , and with apologies to Joyce Carol Oates, but  first , having served churches in the...
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016

It's still raining down in Texas

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The flooding in Texas is due to climate change, no doubt.  Recovery from the severe drought has now turned into flooding and far mor...

Meanwhile, back at the loony bin....

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Trump skipped out on a January GOP debate in order to raise money for veterans’ charities but never announced how much the fundraiser to...
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Please make ME stop!

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Just noting the narrative, where context is all. FiveThirtyEight.com has a new poll up for California.  Granted, it's a YouGov poll...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Please make it stop

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Been wondering about this for a while; an article finally makes the argument clear. Bernie's argument over the weekend is that he ...
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It's a wonder tall trees aren't layin' down....

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Amanda Marcotte points out that Bernie Sanders hung his 'revolution' on Thomas Frank's analysis that Kansas doesn't see th...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

Would somebody please just pull the plug?

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No, that's not a joke. It would be a mercy killing: Sanders said he wanted to go into the Democratic National Convention this s...
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Saturday, May 28, 2016

What if they gave a revolution and nobody came?

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So we are told on the one hand that "Millenials" (no, I really don't like generational groupings; might as well say "V...
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Friday, May 27, 2016

The Presidential Candidate as Internet Troll

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“Based on the fact that the Democratic nominating process is totally rigged and Crooked Hillary Clinton and Deborah Wasserman Schultz wi...

Don't try this at home! Leave it to the professionals....

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That light might be for you; doesn't mean it's for everybody. When I first heard about this : The breakdown of the appropria...

Giordano Bruno's problem was he annoyed everybody

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Just to pick up with that poster, which I was rather surprised to find on-line:  it's a perfect example of how science wants to re-...
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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Sen. Sanders, Admiral Akbar would like a word with you....

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This is apparently the story of Trump v. Sanders in a debate sans Hillary: On ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Trump was ask...

"TURN THOSE MACHINES BACK ON! TURN THOSE MACHINES BACK ON!!!"

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One of the favorite tropes of the more insane Sanders supporters is that the media is promoting a narrative that favors Clinton.  You kno...