20 July 2016

Terra incognita

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Day 1 of the unsurprisingly screwy GOP convention.  We knew it was going to be a train wreck - how could it not be?  So we just had to watc...
16 July 2016

Meanwhile, back in Crazytown . . .

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Trump just gets wackier with each passing day .  And, in related news, Mike Pence appears to have a skeleton right out of the box .  That d...
10 July 2016

Duh

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Yes, perhaps this is indeed  an example of why expansive open carry laws are stupid, illiberal and dangerous.

Finally, a real apology

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Was it really so much to ask?
09 July 2016

It's not quite 1968

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But sometimes it feels like it. Josh's deeply thoughtful post gamely yet tepidly reassures. I'm not so sure myself. The danger f...
08 July 2016

Sadly, this seemed inevitable . . .

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In the wake of the latest police shootings of unarmed black men, is it any wonder this would happen ? In prior shootings, as a final i...
06 July 2016

Chilcot report in

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Seven years late.  Nothing surprising: Tony's most egregious continuing mis-truth is the idea that his decision was honestly taken be...
05 July 2016

I may have found it

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A compelling explanation. No. Not this one:
25 June 2016

Good-bye UK

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Now that's over, and I'm past the initial shock, depression and blind rage - moving into sadness now - as I contemplate the near ...
23 June 2016

Thoughts on the Referendum and Other Stuff

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“What surprises me time and time again as I travel around the constituency is that we are far more united and have far more in common with ...
16 June 2016

Drumpf, Nailed

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Kohut explored a wide range of rage experiences in his seminal article 'Thoughts on Narcissism and Narcissistic Rage' (1972).[17]...
13 March 2016

Yep -

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It's "payback time" .

Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse -

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. . . it has. As usual, Josh has diagnosed the cause of the latest threat from the Right that confronts us. In a world of strange coinc...
04 May 2015

“I took America to war in Iraq. It was all me.”

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Ah, Judith, you're such a cut-up.   Thanks for inviting us to laugh along with you at such a ludicrous notion.  
19 April 2015

Judy, Judy, Judy

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Stunning mendacity. Meanwhile, at the same time Judith transcribed White House lies, Seymour Hersh meticulously reported on how those ...
14 March 2015

Well, Bibi's speech to congress is really working for him . . .

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. . . albeit perhaps not in the way he intended. The Republicans who invited him, without bothering to inform the president, are likel...
09 February 2015

I'd pretty much given up

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But this just couldn't be ignored . . .
20 January 2013

When He's On . . .

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. . . he's so on . . . watch out for that guy in Kentucky named Skeeter! Yes, both parties just totally suck. 

Zero Dark Misdirection

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America just can't seem to come to terms with the fact that the torture debate is not about ticking time-bombs or finding Osama: i...
19 January 2013

Me Neither

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So very sad , and not too unusual in America.