I was on a skiing trip with the band and while I did in fact end up with all the other crippled kids in the back of the bus (a football line backer wacked into me at speed and opened up a foot long gash in my leg with his edges, I would have kept …
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Dec 11 2017
Slavery Is Bad!
Maybe I’m too subtle. A historian destroys Roy Moore’s myth about ‘united’ black families during slavery History News Network, Raw Story 11 Dec 2017 At a campaign event in September, one of the few African Americans in the audience asked Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Alabama, when he thought America …
Dec 11 2017
Graven Image
Umm… Let’s define traitor, shall we? Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. U.S. Constitution Article 3, Section 3 Fair enough. Now that we know what the rules are I ask you to consider whether Thomas Jonathan Jackson, …
Dec 08 2017
Ersatz: A Cheap Imitation of Inferior Quality
Actually, I was one of the founding members of that club. It was an elaborate spoof of all the other clubs. We used to turn out to cheer on the Debate and Swim Teams, show up for Chess Club matches. My Ersatz name was “The Pro From Dover”. It lasted 5 or 6 years and …
Dec 08 2017
Why Stephen Colbert is my favorite Late Night Host
#OscarsSoStephen Judge Hodgman Nice Lady OMG Dentures? Really?
Dec 07 2017
Modern Monetary Theory and Taxes
There are a couple of things I’ve alluded to in my discussion of the Cut Cut Cut Bill, the first and most important of which is that beyond a naked theft from 90% of the population to line the pockets of the Plutocratic .01% it also is an assault on the benefits of the 90% …
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