Month: January 2012

A Stopped Clock is Right…

I wonder if Justice Samuel Alito will whisper that this isn’t true, as he famously did when the president said much the same thing during his 2010 State of the Union address: Sen. John McCain says the Supreme Court ruling...

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Casual Lament

Sigh. It is officially Tantrum Day in Chez Cabin. The terrible twos have arrived in earnest. At this point my nerves are shot. But I don’t think it’s unreasonable to argue that Oreos must come after dinner, do you?...

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Romney Following in McCain’s Footsteps

This is pretty astute. “I’m thinking of a Republican primary. It starts with a candidate (John McCain/Mitt Romney) who ran once before, came in second place, and won over the party’s elite class without winning...

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Odds & Ends

Betty Cracker makes a funny. Another Iranian nuclear scientist got blown up in Teheran. Iran blames Israel and the U.S. You may not have noticed but Bill Daley announced his resignation as the president’s chief-of-staff....

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Three Articles Worth Reading

From truthout Have the Super-Rich Seceded From the United States? I do not mean secession in terms of physical withdrawal from the territory of the state, although that happens occasionally.(i) It means a withdrawal into...

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