Author: mongreldogs
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Week of 2025-0309
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Week of 2025-0302
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Week of 2025-0223
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Week of 2025-0210
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Revisiting the Undiscovered Country
For no strong reason — perhaps I just want to relive a time that had could view its moment in history with hope — I rewatched Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country tonight. Although clearly of another era, it holds up pretty well. There’s more to the main story than I remembered and a lot…
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Missing the point on court packing
This is the sort of idiocy that keeps us mired. The Republicans haven’t resisted “nuking” the “independent judiciary” out of respect for the Democrats’ restraint. I promise you, now that independent judges have thrown speed bumps in the path of the MAGA/fascist/cultist horde, we will see bills to purge the judiciary. But if the Democrats…
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The Pledge on the day after
At Jenks, we say the Pledge of Allegiance every day at the start of school. (Kids can opt out.) Not usually a big deal to me — I don’t think reciting the pledge makes one patriotic, nor does not reciting it make one NOT patriotic. It’s more or less rote, which is sad, because we…
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Good riddance to bad rubbish
McConnell is finally stepping down as Republican Senate Leader. Good riddance. Mitch McConnell, more than any other American, is responsible for the perilous state in which we currently find the Republic. While not subscribing to the worst of the MAGA madness, he absolutely is to blame for its rise, its prominence, and its persistence. He…
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Donald Trump and Kompromat
TL;DR: There is none. Putin isn’t holding some terrible secret over Trump’s head to get him to dance to the Russian’s tune. It’s far far worse than that.