Month: December 2018

The Party of Trumpism Without Trump

In what is probably a coincidence, the New York Times and the Washington Post each ran articles Monday on how the Republican Party is now more firmly than ever the Party of Trump. However, the articles differ from each other in...

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Back-stabbing the back stop

There has been much speculation as to what will happen when Theresa May loses the Commons Brexit vote, as she almost certainly will, on Dec. 11th. Most observers don’t expect that vote to be even close, with some...

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Wisconsin GOP Plans Atrocities

This is an important Twitter thread on the Wisconsin Republicans’s plan to commit a series of atrocities against democracy next week. BREAKING—as in breaking democracy: a truly shocking & naked power grab underway in...

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Casual Observation

Let’s dispense with the good/shitty by comparison way of judging or memorializing former presidents. Shitty presidents are shitty presidents, and we usually have shitty presidents. When they die, we shouldn’t say...

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SPP Vol.694 & Old Time Froggy Botttom Cafe

Hello again painting fans. This week I will be continuing with the painting of the old double-turreted Victorian. The photo that I am using is seen directly below. I’ll be using my usual acrylic paints on a 8×10 inch...

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