No reservations on the crazy train
In the Unofficial Pat Ryan Register of All Things Known and Unknown, there is recent high concern that Donald Trump has dementia. Or is just batshit crazy. One or the other is used to explain some of...
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Franklin Roosevelt took office during the Great Depression eager to try out potential remedies for the economic crisis, so he set an arbitrary mark of the first 100 days in office as a goal for...
View ArticleShrub sez…
There’s reportedly an old Chinese curse that your wish for your enemy is that he may live in interesting times. Even if it’s not really an old Chinese curse, it is a nice bit of irony that’s finding a...
View ArticleFight the normalization of Trumpism
A year ago the Republican establishment felt pretty good about its prospects, crowed about the outstanding group of people who were running for president, and acted confident about the party’s chances...
View ArticleFurlough Journal: Lunatics, yes…fringe, not so much
Happy Columbus Day, which is the last day I can sit home doing nothing and still get paid during our partial government shutdown, now about to begin its third exciting week! I used some of the time...
View ArticleLife imitates art that makes people laugh; Life nearly as funny
I ran across this short post today calling attention to a new site that’s tracking real newspaper headlines that read like the front page of The Onion. When you’ve got folks going with headlines like...
View ArticleFurlough Journal: Lunatics, yes…fringe, not so much
Happy Columbus Day, which is the last day I can sit home doing nothing and still get paid during our partial government shutdown, now about to begin its third exciting week! I used some of the time...
View ArticleLife imitates art that makes people laugh; Life nearly as funny
I ran across this short post today calling attention to a new site that’s tracking real newspaper headlines that read like the front page of The Onion. When you’ve got folks going with headlines like...
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