Eric the Blue
Mostly politics, sports, literature, arts reviews
Category: Politics
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I tracked down today an interview I heard on NPR while driving to work one day last week. The NPR host, Michel Martin, was interviewing another Michel, Goodwin of the Georgetown Law faculty, on the Supreme Court’s recent decision in a case about mifepristone, the abortifacient that women living in states that have banned abortion…
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The above is taken from the New York Times’s “An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2024 Election” and shows the outcome, at the precinct level, of the last presidential race in different neighborhoods of Memphis, Tennessee. The white strip with the dashed line is the Mississippi River, which is the border between Tennessee and Arkansas.…
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When the Secretary of Health and Human Services recently defended his boss’s innumeracy with more innumeracy, my opinion of their mental fitness for their respective jobs did not suffer–it was already too low for that. It is nevertheless an amusing episode, especially perhaps for math educators accustomed to the wayward solutions of school children. To…
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Are there countries besides ours in which eight kids, age 3 through 12, can die in a mass shooting and the story lives in the national news for around six-and-a-half seconds? I suppose if the slaughter of kindergartners at that school in Connecticut didn’t elicit much more than a ho-hum, there isn’t any reason to…
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Lots of people say we’re living in “the dumbest timeline ever” but this isn’t true for those of us who, like me, have a hard time distinguishing Donald Trump from Jesus Christ (or either one from a medical doctor). The pope seems pretty sure of his judgment so maybe you have to be trained in…
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On Sunday (Easter), our president announced: Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP. Until I transcribed…
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I suppose that, for Kool-aid drinkers, the Trump administration suspending for 30 days sanctions on Iranian oil sales is another example of Our Dear Leader “playing chess, not checkers.” To me, it looks like desperation as the midterms loom and the price of crude rises. We might be a week away from offering Iran some…
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If you read around very much in the right-wing media world–in my case, a guilty pleasure that’s yielded a metric ton of entertainment value–you soon comprehend that a leading theme, maybe the gold-medal winner, relates to the supposed liberal bias of what they sometimes call “legacy media,” which means New York Times, BBC, Reuters, NPR,…
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Now and again I’ll hear someone say something like, “Oh, yeah, The Onion is funny as hell,” which, as compliments go, seems to me a little limp: a phrase such as “national treasure” would be more apt. They’re currently running a story beneath the headline “ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In…
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I tuned into the State of the Union Address last night, because I enjoy the absurd pageantry that precedes the actual speech, and, of course, once Trump starts talking anything can happen, and you might not want to miss it. Once he started talking, however, I was quickly bored, plus over on the Big-10 Network…
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