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Aug 07 2017
Marcy, Marcy, Marcy Media Madness!
Is she on a book tour or something? I’d call her a friend of the site except I suspect she hardly remembers we exist. In any event it’s always a genuine pleasure to promote her, here she is talking with The Real News about Robert Mueller and Russiagate. Does Mueller’s Russia Probe Threaten Trump?
Aug 07 2017
Meet The New Boss
Just as James Comey is not the knight in shining armor and beacon of integrity his current propaganda suggests, so too Christopher Wray, his successor as Head of the FBI, is no saint worthy of hagiography. Marcy Wheeler explains on Democracy Now. Wray Confirmed as FBI Director as Questions Swirl over His Past Record & …
Aug 06 2017
The Stealth Fundamentalist Evangelicals
What do Hillary Clinton, W, and I have in common? We’re all baptized Methodists. It was founded by John Wesley, his younger brother Charles, and George Whitefield. John and Charles had participated in the Holy Club at the University of Oxford. Members took Communion weekly, fasted, abstained from “sinful” pursuits, and practiced charity. They were …
Aug 05 2017
A Good Walk Spoiled
I might have mentioned I golf. My Grandfather was a fanatic and very good at it. His best gift to me ever, at least from his standpoint, was a set of plastic play clubs which I took to instantly. I, unfortunately for him, am very bad at it. My scorecards are filled with double pars, …
Aug 04 2017
Honor, Code, Loyalty
We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. Today is the anniversary of the United States Coast Guard (in Lego) but I’m not here to talk about that. Instead I want to discuss heroism. Admiral Paul F. Zukunft, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, …
Aug 04 2017
Identity Politics And Litmus Tests
I’m reading a lot of reaction to the push back by Abortion Rights activists against the policy articulated by Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Ben Ray Luján not to withhold financial support from anti-Choice candidates (which I wrote about Monday), most of it from Corporatist Institutional Democrats and their centrist sycophants. Their argument goes something …
Aug 03 2017
A Rahm Emanuel “Democrat”
Retards eh? A vile slander of the developmentally handicapped. Moron on the other hand is descriptive. West Virginia Governor to Switch from Democrat to Republican By JONATHAN MARTIN and MICHAEL D. SHEAR, The New York Times AUG. 3, 2017 Gov. Jim Justice of West Virginia, a Democrat who was elected last year even as President …
Aug 03 2017
Not Rod
Tuesday I covered the Rich/Faux Noise story and I thought it was appalling but going nowhere. Silly me. Today it’s been the bottom of the hour (:30) lead on MSNBC all day. Just now (3:30 pm ET) watched a 15 minute interview with Butowsky. And Amy Goodman and Marcy Wheeler evidently think there’s something to …
Aug 03 2017
Mandolin Picks Perhaps
In addition to my bravura performances as Ralph Rackstraw in H.M.S. Pinafore and Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar I also trod the boards as Traveling Salesman #1 in The Music Man about which the critics said- “You did a really good job son” and “You remembered all your lines! I’m so proud.” Trumpcare Death Spiral …
Aug 02 2017
No Special Snowflake
I’ve often enough said that I don’t like The Donald at all and the sooner he winds up on the ash heap of History the happier I’ll be. I don’t even much care what the excuse is or how it’s done though I do think it a little hinky to diagnose mental illness from a …
Aug 02 2017
Eric Trump- Smartest Person In The Administration
Yes, it’s all a cunning plot, an 11 dimensional chess game if you will, designed to string us along and get us to misunderestimate him so he can take over the World! I really hate Cat’s In The Cradle, liking it is similar to saying Jurassic Bark is your favorite episode of Futurama (everybody knows …
Aug 01 2017
Today in Russiagate
It’s a slooow news day in the Russiagate story, only two major blockbuster reports. The first is the Washington Post’s revelation that The Donald personally and against the advice of his staff dictated Donald Jr.’s initial statement about the infamous Re: Russia – Clinton – private and confidential email and meeting. This happened under a …