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Sep 28 2017
Follow The Money- Part 3
Back on May 13th I shared with you 2 parts of what turns out now to be a Trilogy (Sharknado XV: The Jumping!) of documentaries by the Dutch Network Zembla. Well, I was wrong about one thing Zembla is not a network, it is a show- like 60 Minutes. The network is VARA. This third …
Sep 27 2017
800,000 Hostages
Let’s get it straight about who “Dreamers” are. They’re people who were born outside the U.S. who were brought here while they were minors in violation of U.S. immigration laws. Most of them know no other country since they were too young to remember; some go to school, some serve in the military, some work, …
Sep 26 2017
Colbert 2.0
Well, I can’t quite claim it’s an original concept but The Opposition with Jordan Klepper has debuted and I have seen it. If you were pining for The Colbert Report it’s an acceptable substitute, at least based on the premier. Jordan seems to be pushing for a little higher energy and more paranoid style than …
Sep 26 2017
Double Barreled Bernie
Oh, you think what I’m talking about is last night’s CNN debate. Well, I’ll get to that. Last Thursday Sanders spoke at Westminster College, Missouri, a venue made famous by being the site of Winston Churchill’s Sinews of Peace speech. A lot of people think that after World War II Churchill went on to be …
Sep 25 2017
Monopolies are Bad
I was under the impression that this thoroughly self evident concept had sort have become accepted as orthodox conventional Economic Theory back in 1776 when Adam Smith published Wealth of Nations. In that book he spends a good deal of time discussing how externalities, tax preferences, lobbying, and monopolies thwart the ability of the “Invisible …
Sep 24 2017
Bend The Knee Day
You see, I just want to load my pickup with the AK-47 in the gun rack and the Stars and Bars decals, bumper stickers, mud flaps, truck nuts, and flags on the back with 16 cases of ‘murika’ labeled Bud and go to the game so I can watch 44 mostly Black people bang their …
Sep 22 2017
Socialized Medicine!
Or Bust. Ding Dong? I would be remiss not to recognize John McCain’s public stand against Graham-Cassidy (Johnson-Heller, let’s not forget those assholes) makes it immeasurably difficult to achieve 50 Senate votes (and a tie-breaking decider from Mike Pence) given Rand Paul’s (give it up for the Freedom Caucus) earlier principled stand, Susan Collin’s almost …
Sep 22 2017
The Bizzaro Zombie
I’m going to have to ask you to put on your Googly Eyes for this one. So Tiger Beat on the Potomac posits that from a Republican point of view it is Obamacare that is the Zombie that eats your brains and you can not kill, even with fire. (T)he fact that the bill remains …
Sep 21 2017
Netroots Nation
There’s a reason I don’t go to Netroots Nation any more and it’s not because I’m ashamed of anything I’ve done or said in a little over 12 years of public writing (as a matter of fact I’m mostly pretty proud of all of it except the stuff that was uninspired which while not bad …
Sep 21 2017
Russiagate: An Update (Mainly Manafort)
Manafort indicted? A no brainer. Will he turn on Trump? Hey, even Goodfellas squeal. (W)as he shaking? I wonder about you sometimes, Henry. You may fold under questioning. On the other hand Goodfellas normally give you a cement overcoat, not a case of polonium poisoning delivered by a Kingsman brolly. Manafort offered to give Russian …
Sep 21 2017
What about funny do you not understand?
You’re a pistol, you’re really funny. You’re really funny. What do you mean I’m funny? It’s funny, you know. It’s a good story, it’s funny, you’re a funny guy. What do you mean, you mean the way I talk? What? It’s just, you know. You’re just funny, it’s… funny, you know the way you tell …