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2012: Darn those petards
Saw a story on Slate today, about Mitt Romney and his 47% comments. Imagine being saddled with that for the rest of your life. But then he’s rich so the hell with him. Just kidding. He’s a job...
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Palm Springs
One Saturday night a couple years ago we were out in Palm Springs watching their Christmas Festival of Lights parade. Fire trucks and marching bands and agricultural machinery and prancing queens and...
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Syria
I’m not sure if attacking Syrian targets is a good idea or not. But if not, it’s not as simple as sharing a “No War on Syria” photo if you oppose it. There’s a moral implication to isolationism too....
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Syria and dogs and cats
“How about instead of attacking Syria, we just send every 2014 graduating high school senior to college free of charge.” Someone for whom I have tremendous respect said, in very excited all caps, that...
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Obamajam
Every time a prez or a pope visits Los Angeles, or a Michael Jackson dies, there are traffic jams for a couple hours. Except now they get on Facebook and the whole world shrieks. Remember when...
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The day after the 2014 midterms
I hate to be a downer to all the panic stricken and paranoid out there, but there is a Democratic president, you’ll remember, and therefore not a damn crazy thing the GOP does will be made law. None of...
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Four days after the 2014 midterms
There’s an excellent piece by Jamelle Bouie in Slate today, The Disunited States of America, about the midterm voters versus the general election voters. It’s longish, which means, sadly, few will...
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White male privilege
The thing I like about Bernie Sanders is that he knows more than a woman what is best for women. His supporters also know what is best for black people without being a black person. They knew better...
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