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Missing Secret Service text messages are a conspiracy you can believe in
It looks like the U.S. Secret Service (USSS), which protects the president, vice president and certain other high-ranking officials, is missing a whole lot of text messages that occurred on or around January 6, 2021. The messages appear to have been lost this January, curiously starting two days after the January 6 Select Committee in…
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Grand juror
If you are depressed about the state of our government, it actually helps to be called to a jury. I’m on a grand jury this time. A few years back I was on a regular jury. Not only did we get to try a suspect (guilty on one charge, not guilty on another), it was…
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Republicans seem to be saying: bring it on
Bringing it on is good if you like chaos and autocracy, with maybe some theocracy thrown into boot. Recent Supreme Court decisions have made Republicans giddy with delight. States are already innovating new and more oppressive measures to screw it to people they don’t like, which are principally people of color and women, of course,…
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Canceling summer
Last month the Union of Concerned Scientists, looking at the large number of unusual weather events in our hottest months, gave a new name to the months of May through October: the Danger Season. They were stating the obvious: with all that extra energy in the northern hemisphere, and with our general refusal to reduce…
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What should be done with my corpse?
I’m remembering an old B.C. comic strip: B.C.: What was I before I was what I was, and what will I be when I’m not? Peter: You were what you were before you are what you are, and you will be what you ain’t. That makes sense, sort of. It doesn’t explain anything, but it’s…
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A lesson in caregiving
Three years ago, my wife had her right knee replaced. A couple of weeks ago, she had the other knee replaced. She was in a lot of chronic pain before the surgery. Now that she’s recovering, she’s in a more chronic pain, but it’s the kind that results from having a joint of metal and…
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Republicans will probably be ruing today’s Supreme Court abortion decision
It’s not surprising that Roe v. Wade was formally overturned by our super conservative court today. That’s because the opinion was leaked back in May. It would have been surprising had it changed. Still, it’s shocking nonetheless. I’m hardly the first pundit to point out that this is like a dog chasing a car and…
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It turns out that I was a pretty good father
My daughter is 32 now but at least she now remembers Father’s Day. She remembers Mother’s Day now too, perhaps because it’s on her Google Calendar by default. For years she ignored these Hallmark holidays (as my wife calls them). I didn’t give her a hard time about it. It’s nice though that after all…
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It’s a great time to take nervous nellie investors to the cleaners
It’s often said that fools rush in where angels fear to tread. So is it foolish to buy into the stock market right now? Yesterday’s market suggests it’s a foolish time to buy anything. After yesterday, the S&P 500 is in official bear market territory. The DJIA briefly dropped more than a thousand points before…
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No good options for controlling inflation
Americans are pissed about inflation and who can blame them? It’s good news for Republicans, in a way, because voters tend to vent their economic anxieties at the polls. So no one will be surprised if they retake Congress in November, especially after all their recent gerrymandering and voter suppression efforts. To control inflation though…
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