Category Archives: Politics and history

Voter ID and Marriage Inequality

Posted on May 14, 2014 by

I just completed a three-year term as an election official in Pennsylvania (and good riddance, by the way – it’s exhausting, getting there at 6, getting out at 9 that night, sitting on those hard chairs as people with colds … Continue reading →

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Jon Stewart versus Fox News (again)

Posted on May 9, 2014 by

We met a woman on vacation a year or so ago who seemed quite reasonable (especially since she was from Manhattan) until one day she said the only people who know the truth about Benghazi are the ones who watch … Continue reading →

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ZunZuneo

Posted on April 9, 2014 by

Imagine if you suddenly found out Twitter was secretly designed, sponsored, and paid for by the Chinese or, maybe even worse, by Vladimir Putin. Would you shrug it off, and just conclude they were trying to enhance our social communication? … Continue reading →

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“All the Way” (with LBJ)

Posted on April 4, 2014 by

Thanks to Bryan Cranston, and with the help of my friend Tina, who was also there, I can now confirm the truth of my recovered memory: in August, 1964, we went to the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. It … Continue reading →

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Poor Chris Christie

Posted on March 30, 2014 by

If only David Wildstein (who, in a previous life, was executive director of the New Jersey Legislature’s Legislative Caucus on Israel) had been there, he could have told Christie that speaking the truth to the Republican Jewish Coalition isn’t quite … Continue reading →

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Just don’t listen

Posted on March 4, 2014 by

I have a hard time listening to critics of Obama, as I wrote when I criticized his drone policy the other day, and so all the stuff about he’s weak he needs to respond to Putin etc. has been driving … Continue reading →

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What to do?

Posted on March 2, 2014 by

I can’t imagine what Obama had to say to Putin that took 90 minutes. There’s not much he could say, except platitudes about respecting national sovereignty and democracy and Gee, maybe we’ll have to come up with some sanctions. Did … Continue reading →

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In which I come around to George W., kind of

Posted on February 26, 2014 by

I knew I shouldn’t have written critically about Obama yesterday. First of all, it brought me a comment I immediately had to trash; one of those half-crazed vitriolic things you find if you unwisely venture into the comments section of … Continue reading →

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Obama’s drones

Posted on February 25, 2014 by

When Bush was President, I thought the people who said, “He’s our President and so we need to support him,” were idiots. Now Obama is President, and although I certainly would never subscribe to that idiotic point of view, I … Continue reading →

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Standing their ground

Posted on February 20, 2014 by
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