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Because I Am Not A Nice Person Anymore*

by Tom Levenson|  November 6, 202012:30 pm| 360 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, Proud to Be A Democrat

Time for more thread, I think. In the continuing celebration, here’s a little nugget that is giving me an unreasonable satisfaction. With Mark Kelly’s victory in the AZ senate race, Martha McSally has a truly distinctive achievement to call her own. She is a sitting senator who has lost two consecutive election. Let us savor. …

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Billionaires, Republicans, and the Assault on Society

by Tom Levenson|  November 5, 20205:43 pm| 53 Comments

This post is in: Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Open Threads

While we’re waiting for…oh, I dunno, something or other, an article I chanced upon today about wine and income inequality triggered a thought about what we are really up against in the ongoing fight for our country. Eric Asimov, the New York Times wine critic, published this about a week ago: Among the many ways …

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Trump, the GOP, and Cosplay Masculinity

by Tom Levenson|  November 3, 20207:20 pm| 34 Comments

This post is in: Election 2011, Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Politics

ETA: The posts are coming fast and furious, aren’t they. Well, heck. This is a full service blog. Graze and munch as you like. While we wait for consequential news, this is a good time to point y’all to an article that ran in the Gray Lady a few days ago by a friend of mine, …

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They Promised Me There Would Be No Math…

by Tom Levenson|  November 2, 20201:41 pm| 232 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, Vive La Resistance

This data update from the Gray Lady’s Upshot team (one of the good silos there) gives me hope–not (just) on the election, but for America as well. It says Trump’s problem isn’t simply, or even mostly the gender gap. Rather: The more meaningful story in this race is the 2016-to-2020 election gap. Polls suggests that …

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Yes. They Really Are Assholes.

by Tom Levenson|  October 31, 20208:20 pm| 166 Comments

This post is in: Biden-Harris 2020, Crazification Factor, GOP Death Cult, Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Politics, Vive La Resistance

Did what amounts to a symbolic bit of electioneering today–a lit drop in Salem, NH. I haven’t been nearly as active-on-the-streets as I usually am, for a variety of reasons; it’s been money and a bit of post-carding for me. So this was my first real on-the-ground experience outside the Brookline, MA bubble–which really is …

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You Never Know When You’ll Need That…

by Tom Levenson|  October 30, 20202:53 pm| 104 Comments

This post is in: Humorous, Not Politics, Open Threads, Sports

I’ll give our English cousins this: they don’t throw stuff out, and they know where to find it when the occasion demands it. In case you thought Cambridge ceremonies were just for the tourists: the porters in my college have been delivering food to self-isolating students & announcing their arrival with an actual plague bell …

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It’s Getting So Hard To Tell The Crazies From The Understandably Deranged

by Tom Levenson|  October 28, 20204:09 pm| 65 Comments

This post is in: 2020 Elections, Crazification Factor, GOP Death Cult, Open Threads

Dear FSM make it stop… It’s a measure of my bewilderment and, perhaps, the effects of having spent the last four days with my head under a blanket, sucking down pureed suppers through a straw insinuated into the bedclothes, that it took me a very long time to realize this was parody: Woman stranded at …

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