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As posted on the legacy site a few moments ago: Dear philo, Yes, I know you were banished from this bandwidth long ago, but just in case, a quick note from way back here in January 2025, just hours before Trump 2.0 takes off and… believe it or not, things are exactly the same as they …
Continue reading A Brief Note to my Future Self (Do Not Open Until January 2029)
I will admit that, in my earlier ramblings on the subject (even when I said things like “complex products relying on sound engineering and science that pose any kind of potential safety issue in your life will become suspect in the not-so-distant future” and “it will become more obvious piece by piece in specific tragic …
As posted over at the legacy site a few minutes ago... Just for New Year’s Day entertainment value, I decided to follow up on my comment from a couple of days ago where I noted that someday I would like to get a peek at the Never Trump Ouija Board that instills so much cocksurety into all …
Continue reading Highlight Reel – (Some of) The Best of the Never Trump Ouija Board
As posted over at the legacy site back on December 10: Have I mentioned that Second-Term Trump is going to be a whole lot of fun? Not being a lawyer, and the fact that I have not really bothered to read the whole thing, I openly admit that there may be a whole lot in this …
(As posted over at the legacy site earlier this evening. Apologies, several of the links may not be accessible to non-members over there. Most of the material is here too...I just haven't taken the time to redirect the links.) To those who were paying attention throughout the four-year ordeal, the first pass at a succinct …
I started this a few days ago…it wasn’t very focused from the start and only went downhill from there. But, because I still want to document the Transition Agreement story in my posting history (along with several other pokes at the intellectually unserious along the way), here it is anyway… While many like to pretend …
I will start by pointing out the intended specificity related to the “soft” modifier used above to limit the target of this post to a sub-section of those who occupy a broader section of the American political spectrum. I will leave to the reader to decide if he (in the universal sense) is included or …
Continue reading (Faux) Fear and (Self) Loathing of the Soft Center Right
As posted this morning at the legacy site: A search of the term shows that I am certainly not the first and/or only Member to touch on the subject, but I have touched on it several times in pushing my own agenda around here…like this example from January 13 of this year: So many years …
Continue reading The True Maverick We Have – A Creation of the System?
Around this time on the eve of Election Eve four years ago I posted about the competing realities surrounding the perceived state of the race. That post is recreated in its entirety below. Looking back at that moment, it is chilling to see that the “optimists” were still looking to filter the polling data for …
A few days before this year’s officially-cited-but-not-really-observed election "day" provides a good opportunity to return to this series…it being a (very imperfect but sometimes informative) touchstone into the ever-shrinking world of the moderately intellectually honest Democrat. In this episode Madam Althouse appears to come out from behind the usual forced neutrality with a brief but …
Continue reading The Althouse Files: The ‘President? What President? We have a President?’ Edition
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