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Roundup
(1) Russian ballet dancer, critic of Putin, falls to his death. (2) Trump’s proposed FCC head says the administration will crack down on censorship online. (3) Dana Carvey is so good at this: (4) The Democrats are embracing the filibuster, … Continue reading →
Do you feel the winds of change?
Ever since the election there’s been a sea-change, an atmospheric something that’s a bit hard to describe but has the whiff of possibility. I think everyone feels it to a certain extent. The left dreads and fears it, and perhaps … Continue reading →
Computers – love ’em, hate ’em
Computers bring us so much. Just to take one obvious example, they bring this blog to you and your comments to me. They bring us the ability to bank online, get news from anywhere in the world, and buy just … Continue reading →
Open thread 11/18/2024
Spambot of the day
Oh my, you almost fooled me: Hi, i read your blog occasionally and i own a similar one and i was just curious if you get a lot of spam remarks? If so how do you protect against it, any … Continue reading →
To all those who say that Trump’s appointments are too radical …
… I would counter by pointing to Biden’s appointments, equally radical in the opposite direction. Elections do indeed have consequences.
Continue reading →New Hampshire displays its split personality once again
Some people would call New Hampshire a purple state. But I think that’s misleading. New Hampshire is blue at the national level and red at the state level. In recent years, its senators and House members are all Democrats. But … Continue reading →
“Under Biden, the Democrats should have been more radical”
[Hat tip: commenter “AesopFan”] From this article by Park MacDougald [my remarks in brackets]: And in other dodged-bullet news, Jonathan Last of “The Bulwark,” the never-Trump Republican webzine dedicated to “defending democracy” and bilking large checks out of gullible liberal … Continue reading →
Open thread 11/16/2024
So articulate for their age:
Continue reading →Roundup
(1) Some theories about what might be behind the Gaetz nomination. (2) Israel may have struck a secret nuclear research facility in Iran. And now that Trump is waiting in the wings, I’d expect to see more of that in … Continue reading →
The Trump administration: the pursuit of justice or of revenge?
One can hardly blame Trump for wanting to go after the people who used lawfare against him – who invented charges and twisted the intent of statutes in order to end his political career, bankrupt him and his family, and … Continue reading →