Sunday, December 27, 2015

Dementia: the Reagan Administration and Right-wing Policies

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President Reagan had Alzhemier's disease (a form of senile dementia) during his second term (1984-1988.) Some people reported symptoms e...
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Monday, December 21, 2015

Conservatives, when you say there's no difference between the parties…

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…what I hear is that your side f—d up real bad, and you don't want to admit it.
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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

"And it's one, two, three, …

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… what are we fighting for?" So in that speech which, as usual, no-one seems to have listened to, Obama asked for an expansion of Au...
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Thursday, December 3, 2015

General Clinton

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(A cranky comment I made over at Crooked Timber.) It occurs to me that, if we could get Hillary Clinton on our side, even a bit, she migh...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

On the Uses of Political Leadership, a Critique of Division on the Left

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You're out of power, you're being treated horribly, you're angry, and you can't reach your real enemies. So you attack the ...

Book Review: Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice

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Benforado, Adam. Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice . New York: Crown, 2015. 379 pages. Unfair is a broad s...
Monday, November 9, 2015

Grebacle, Three Months On: Failing at Court Politics

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Grebacle = Greek debacle So Syriza caved in, the Eurocrats are looting Greece, and the Greeks are in a for a generation of poverty. Yani...