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The Rats Are Looking for Lifeboats

Just broke my self-imposed boycott of Charlie Pierce of Esquire, a very witty commentator who has shown a distressing tendency in recent years to line up along the Democratic party line. During the primary season this meant toeing pretty close to the Clinton party line, with occasional gestures toward impartiality. So, like so much other corporate media, he went in the trash bin. Today, though, I'm home getting over a cold, and wandered over to his joint. Imagine my surprise to see an entry from Friday entitled Somehow Hillary Clinton Made the E-mail Mess Even Worse Today.

Junkyard Cesspool Wars 2016: Day 1

(In British- Scrapheap Poo Pit Challenge)

I stand accused of being unfair to Brazil and mouthing the Imperialist Exceptionalist tropes that mark our Northern fully industrialized (hah!) First Worlder institutionally and systemically privileged status.

Guilty! I'm the whitest guy you'll ever meet. Nurses greet me with- "Son, the last time someone came in with numbers like that, they'd been shot." Oh, how'd they do? "They died."

I think this person doesn't understand what I find humorous.

Clinton, the banner choice?

I received a reply to a comment requesting me to repost it as a blog. My response was to a comment advocating voting for Hillary Clinton, then pressuring her to the left. I think my comment was posted late enough in the discussion that many who might have been interested, positively or negatively, did not have the opportunity to read it.

This is Why We Need Publicly Funded Presidential Debates

Once again, a lawsuit brought by the Libertarian and Green Parties against the RNC, DNC and The Commission on Presidential Debates seeking injunctive relief to allow them to participate in the upcoming Presidential debates was dismissed without any hearing on the merits of the case by a Federal District Court Judge yesterday.

Deconstructing the Nader-Spoiler Smear Tactic

If you are considering "wasting" {cough} your Vote this fall, consider this ...

Now that Hillary Clinton has wrapped up the Democratic Presidential nomination with the endorsement of Bernie Sanders, her supporters have transitioned to denigrating progressives who affirm they are “Bernie or Bust” by supporting Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein over Clinton. [...]

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