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As his bytes to the world get more and more unhinged, vicious, and dishonest, they provide all material the Dems need to prove to America that it’s been had big time.

I had a good lunch Christmas Day at the Indian restaurant Havelli on Lower Second Avenue. I hadn’t been to this neighborhood landmark in many years, and, in fact I don’t get get down to that neighborhood all that often. … Continue reading →

A horsewoman told me after a busy day of errands, et. al., that she’d been “ridden hard and put away wet!”

They must be the new order of the day because. . . Trump discuss an issue? Defend a policy decision? He’s simply not capable of it.

Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater — Fox “News” agitates for discontinuing food stamps because, as Philip Bump reports in the Washington Post, it claimed that food stamp fraud was at an all-time high. (But of course, … Continue reading →

As “Hunter” at Daily Kos writes: “In Trump’s world you are either currently praising Trump, in which case you are a friend and he has  ‘great respect’ for you, or you are currently not praising Trump, in which case you … Continue reading →

He’s Dr. Mabuse, the aspiring world-wrecker in Fritz Lang’s classic silent thrillers. Except, and this is a big one, Bannon is for real.

— and it is guess who? We, the population of the United States. They’re not planning all this awful stuff to curtail some insidious group of Others. We the people and our democracy are the ones being assailed.

Very few of our leaders in either party seem to care overly about the poor, but the GOP of course has them in their cross hairs. Crippling Medicaid is high on its to do list. In the Times, Gene B. … Continue reading →

Fascism is always a union of state and corporate power, public and private sector working hand-in-glove to institute authoritarian rule.