politics
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Party Like It’s 1699.
I still haven’t been moved to comment any further on the GOP primaries: There is no shortage of people doing that. The choice is down to the 1890s Plutocrat, the 1950s Bircher, or one of two 1930s-style Catholic Fascists. Voter turnout for the primaries and caucuses has been low, but the enthusiasm of the GOP Continue reading
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That’s Just It, We Are the Grownups…
Stopped posting through the holidays… I’m thinking this is probably because I never intended this to be a ‘Political Blog’, there’s enough of those for people to read if they want to, and I already have some election fatigue, myself. But politics is what I’m used to writing about, after all those years of USENET Continue reading
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So, what was that? About three days?
Ron Paul, Crypto-Bircher(tm) storms out of an interview on CNN when asked about the by-now well-known racist newsletters from the 1990s. Fox News ‘breaks’ the story, of course. Now who… Continue reading
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“But wait, I thought you people wanted an asshole…”
Barely two weeks in the limelight, and Gingrich starts announcing how much he’d like to dispatch US Marshals to arrest “Activist” (i.e. too-liberal) judges who make decisions he doesn’t like. Turns out that Newt’s peculiar techno-rebrand of 1930s Catholic Fascism isn’t going to have legs in Iowa, after all. So now, our little circus leaves Continue reading
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Gingrich rising… Again.
I remember my first attempt at a web page back in late 1994. It was mostly just an excuse and an exercise to learn some HTML. The term ‘blog’ had yet to be coined, but one does have to write something between the angle-brackets, so I drafted some little essay about Newt Gingrich (who had Continue reading
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