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Sep 25 2018
The Prosecution Rests Your Honor
You know, think I’m going to go to Law School. How hard can it be? Supreme Court Fight Goes Prime Time With Kavanaugh’s Fox News Interview By Michael M. Grynbaum, The New York Times Sept. 24, 2018 The interview, recorded at a Washington hotel on Monday afternoon, was arranged by White House aides looking to …
Sep 24 2018
Turkeys
I once had occasion to chat with a Turkey farmer and asked him if it was true that Turkeys were so dumb that you had to bring them in out of the rain otherwise they would stare at the sky, mouths agape, until they drowned. It took longer than I expected for him to answer, …
Sep 24 2018
Why I Hate Facebook
You know, the nastiness and name calling don’t bother me so much. I came up through dK and I had already learned 2 important lessons- You are not your avatar, no matter how many hours you’ve invested (learned that one at Boston University where a pitiless Dungeon Master killed my favorite PC dead dead, no …
Sep 23 2018
Overtime
Look, you have to understand I think Bill Maher is a total asshole even though he’s an avowed atheist because he’s militant and an Islamophobe when frankly it’s no more phony than Mormonisn or Christianity (Buddhism? It’s not a religion it’s a moral philosophy and Siddhartha Gautama is a real guy just like Aristotle and …
Sep 22 2018
So What’s Happening In Afghanistan?
You’ll be sorry you asked. In short form, we are losing, badly, to a bunch of guys running around with AK-47s which, to be equitable, are fairly expensive weapons even in Kabul with a street price of $1,500 which is also about what brand new in-the-box Night Vision Glasses freshly looted from the U.S. Supply …
Sep 21 2018
Anita Hill
Wasn’t she a Law Clerk or something? Joe Hill was a very real guy, Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, a Swedish immigrant (White enough for you? Not Ben Franklin. Swedes are filthy mud people who smell of Herring and Punsch.). Anyway Joe wrote about half the Little Red Songbook of the Wobblies and is memorialized in most …
Sep 21 2018
Evil ek
I suppose I should have warned you about this before. I have an evil twin who looks exactly like me and has all my passwords. Now I realize this can cause some confusion so I have devised a foolproof test- if I say anything that diminishes your opinion of me as a suitable Supreme Court …
Sep 20 2018
The Threat
I have rejected all religions (including Paganism) and belive only in the study of philosophy. What is truth? Is it unchanging law? Oh this is new. Respect for Ceasar? Until now it has been noticably lacking. Evangelical Leaders Are Frustrated at G.O.P. Caution on Kavanaugh Allegation By Jeremy W. Peters and Elizabeth Dias, Washington Post …
Sep 19 2018
Sturm und Drang
Good for China? Too soon to tell. These quotes from Republicans give away their game on Kavanaugh By Greg Sargent, Washington Post September 19 2018 The Republicans’ strategy to get Brett Kavanaugh confirmed is to do the absolute minimum necessary to appear as if they are taking the sexual assault charges against him seriously — …
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