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View ArticleRoss Douthat is doing that "Yes, but..." Thing Today. Hillary should listen...
Douthat’s column today in the New York Times warns of the dangers of Hillary Clinton — after first making an admission about Trump.A VOTE for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, the Clinton campaign has...
View ArticleF*ck Twitter.
Seriously.This single website of 140-character bullshit is literally the erosion of intellect. This is a reinforcement of the short-attention-span/soundbite/meme culture that is swallowing critical...
View ArticleWhat Ever Happened to Honest Discourse?
I’d like to thank the members of this community for a most interesting experience. It was not positive and it was quite scary. Member after member ignored the basic premise of my diary and deliberately...
View Article[Still] Stuck in the Liberal Elite Bubble
(I use the term “Liberal Elite” with the degree of snark you would expect from, well, a Liberal Elite.)But snark aside, that label has real power. Power to cause those less Liberal, less Elite (by...
View ArticleBooker’s Groupthink Report for GWPF Debunks Itself
There’s a new .pdf out from the UK’s GWPF that attacks the climate consensus as being a product of groupthink. Deniers are promoting this “paper” like it’s very important, cartoons and all. As Mat Hope...
View ArticleThe Coward Strikes Again
The firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was predicted nearly a century ago by H.L. Mencken. One of the more influential authors from the first half of the twentieth century, Mencken published an...
View ArticlePre-emptive Tulsi-trashing indicates centrist neolibs are gearing up for a...
The reasons given for hating and sabotaging Tulsi Gabbard’s campaign—notably in a combined ActBlue/DailyKos fund-raising appeal designed to remove Tulsi from Congress—strike me as profoundly bogus. Her...
View ArticleAnger: What It Can Accomplish, and What It Cannot
Our new President has told us to turn down the volume. Our outgoing President is guilty of turning up the speakers so loudly that they have produced significant damage to the hi-fi. This we know. The...
View ArticleThe Metamorphosis Is Nearly Complete: the GOP, Mass Psychosis & Menticide
About ten days ago, I posted a piece about Liz Cheney that I thought was topical and hopefully interesting. I worked on it with excitement, and when I read some of the feedback, I found that some...
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