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I am a reader of Duffleblog, and in today’s topsy turvy world, while they are supposed to be satire – they approach the truth to a much closer degree than they care to admit. You should know I am talking about the story in The Atlantic where Jeffery Goldberg reminded
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Donald Trump once said that he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th avenue in New York, and it would not affect his support one bit. The last four years have proved that assertion depressingly true – which is a tribute to the overall stupidity of the American people
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Donald Trump murdered Herman Cain yesterday. “No, he didn’t!!” you say. “He died of COVID-19. He was not murdered.“ Really? Who browbeat people into supporting the extraordinary level of ignorance regarding this disease that Trump has fostered for over six months? Who decided to hold a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
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From time to time, I love to use this quote from the movie, I Robot: In my Facebook memories, today came a post from 2016, which I posted during the Republican National Convention. In it I shared, some words from my favorite political writer Charles Pierce, who recognized what so
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We’re on the train to BangkokAboard the Thailand ExpressWe’ll hit the stops along the wayWe only stop for the best We are not boarding that train anytime soon. Of that, I am pretty sure. You can thank the orange monster for his colossal incompetence for that. And even though Soi
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This has been one hell of a week. We veered from 1918 to 1968 with a dash of 1881 thrown in for good measure. At this point, I am so disgusted with my own country. I cannot stand it. The country needs a 9.9 scale earthquake in the Gulf of
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This one picture pretty much sums up the state of America today. And it’s more than just a touch ironic coming as it does on Memorial Day weekend when we are supposed to be honoring the sacrifice of those who died to make America “free”. In case you were asleep
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In the movie, Thank You for Smoking, the lead character (Nick Naylor) takes his son (Joey Naylor) with him on a business trip to Los Angeles. Out for a night in Santa Monica, Joey asks his dad about his job as a lobbyist for Big Tobacco. In the course of
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The new wingnut narrative is coalescing. Since the “let them drink Lysol” narrative did not work, they are going to a new multi-pronged attack: 1) The governors are stifling pent up demand. The economy is ready to come back if it were not for this pesky emphasis on saving lives
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In zombie movies, the zombies somehow rise up out of the graves and go menacing the population turning them into zombies. I never watched too many zombie movies truth be told. Until now that is: Of course, the difference between zombie movies and real life is, the zombie movies did
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