Hammer Of The Blogs

"Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
-- George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Plague Diary: Wasted Daze

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There is no reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Man ...
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Thursday, March 19, 2020

Shit Doctrine

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Looks like four Republicon Senators so far (Richard Burr, Kelly Loeffler, Jim Inhofe, and Ron Johnson) are known to have sold off large qua...
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Sunday, March 15, 2020

Dead Cat Bounce

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This is what a hollowed-out state looks like -- perpetually stupefied, listless, unable to agree on even a common shared reality, much less...
Saturday, March 14, 2020

Your Periodic Reminder That Newt Gingrich Is a Piece of Shit, and Should Have Been Flushed Decades Ago

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If you have ever looked around at the parlous condition of the United States in the last, say, twenty-five years or so, you can always reme...

Scum

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Suspending my FTFNYT boycott for five minutes , only to say that I literally cringe to think about the many awful things that could happen...

A Floating Speck In an Entropic Void

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I think I've told this story before, but it's been a while, and like many things, it bears repeating. You can learn solid life less...
Monday, March 09, 2020

Gravity and Karma

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Two thousand points. Most of it came in the first few minutes, so quickly that the "curbs" kicked in automatically to shut tradin...
Thursday, March 05, 2020

Warren Piece

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As much of a clown car as the Democratic primary season began as, the real absurdities piled up as the field winnowed. And now, thanks to a...
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Sunday, March 01, 2020

But If You Try Sometimes, You Just Might Find You Get What You Need

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Our old buddy Damian provides some healthy food for thought here. All of us get caught up to at least some degree in this friction of bein...
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Saturday, February 29, 2020

Leap of Fate

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Here's a (probably) unpopular but nevertheless a surface-of-the-sun take:  the hysteria over the corona virus seems maybe a tad overblo...
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Friday, February 28, 2020

Our Liberal Media

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I'm obviously not a fan of "celebrity journalism" -- gossip tabloids and such, but it does have its place, and at least shows...

In Bloom

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Many times over the past few years, I have consistently warned about the "next" Trump, the 2.0 version that's slicker, smarte...

Run, Don't Walk Away

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Oh good, another one of those tedious, disposable I went to a Trump rally and it really opened my eyes to the truth farticles . If I had a...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Dezinformatsiya

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Should rational folks be dismayed, annoyed, concerned even, at the dead-certain likelihood that the Rooskies will deploy their Macedonian...
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