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This photo appeared at Balloon Juice earlier today. How true…and the most staggering thing is the way the Top 1% has funded a bunch of know-nothing Tea Partiers whose only function is to make sure that the everything that the … Continue reading

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Union

Kevin Drum, in a post from last week that I’ve been meaning to link: Every single human institution or organization of any size has its bad points. Corporations certainly do. The military does. Organized religion does. Academia does. The media … Continue reading

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Galtification

Tales of right-wing political figures who rail against the evils of government on the one hand while happily accepting its benefits on the other are a dime a dozen — I especially liked the Teabagger recently elected to Congress who … Continue reading

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Tippecanoe and….

Well, I have no idea what the hell to blog about right now. I could babble about football a bit, but the Bills’ season is done and there’s only so much gabbing I can do about the NFL Draft that’s … Continue reading

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Let me get this straight….

This is a political rant, which I’m going to put beneath the fold. Comments are also closed for this post. Don’t read the whole thing if you don’t like it when I go all political.] After reading a lot of … Continue reading

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Thanking Barack

My general opinion of Barack Obama is, I think, kind of middle-of-the-road among people on my side of the political fence. I do think he could have accomplished more in his first two years had he done things differently, but … Continue reading

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Irony is lost upon his soul….

Just seen on Facebook, in comments to someone’s post: I’m sorry, but this is what you get for picking a Dem nominee who was a Senator for about 3 min before running for President. Obama is a lot of ideas … Continue reading

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Meh….

Yeah, last night’s election results are disastrous and idiotic, but I’m not dwelling on it. Political power comes and goes. It’ll come again…and it’ll go again. Like the tides. I will say this, though (which I said on Twitter and … Continue reading

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Yes, I did.

I got home from voting a short while ago. My polling place changed this year, from the community room in the main building of our own apartment complex to the gymnasium of the Catholic school down the street. I suppose … Continue reading

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Impeach! Impeach!

I’ve seen a bit of discussion around the few left-wing blogs I still read in which folks offer predictions as to if, and therefore when, a Republican Congress will impeach President Obama. So, my take is this: it won’t happen … Continue reading

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