Eric the Blue
Mostly politics, sports, literature, arts reviews
Category: Politics
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One day a few weeks ago I was dining in the school lunchroom when a kid a table over suddenly began vomiting just as a first grade teacher was striding into the room to collect her class. She veered from her original course and, as she’d already been moving, arrived at the scene of the…
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A picture of the 5-year-old Valley View student being detained by ICE Tuesday afternoon after school. According to our superintendent, the family has an open asylum case with a “no deport” order. Nevertheless, the pre-k student is “being held at a detention center in Texas.” A report by the local CBS affiliate, here. And Sahan…
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Regarding the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis, it’s clear that people are going to believe (or say that they believe) whatever it pleases them to believe. It seems a short step from there to the claim that the shooting is essentially a “Rorschach Test” and that objective truth concerning the event doesn’t exist: some…
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At first glance, I thought the phone in her right hand was a cigarette, which is about the only thing that could have made for a more indelible image: like Pam Grier contemplating the dumb white cops in Jackie Brown. Unless someone is completely cropped out, I think there are seven of them. Note that…
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Probably it would be prudent for me to stay off of social media when events in my stomping grounds are the lead story in international news reports, and not for the first time in recent memory. But being a boomer, I occasionally peruse what my kids derisively refer to as BoomerBook, and unfortunately cannot give…
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It’s a footnote to a sidelight, but watching Trump speak this morning about the events in Venezuela last night, I almost felt a little sorry for the guy. He can barely read a text that’s been prepared for him, and when, perhaps impatient with his own bumbling progress, he freelances for awhile, the result is…
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I used to think that law school must be pretty boring, but maybe not. As for the reading, it seems that sometimes even the footnotes to judicial decisions are enjoyable. For example, here is the text of a footnote to an appellate court’s opinion in U.S. v Murphy, 406 F.3d 857, 859 n.1 (7th Cir.…
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I’m memorializing yesterday’s golf round since it may prove to have been the last one of the year. It’s definitely the last one at our home course, Hidden Haven, in common parlance Hillbilly Haven, which is closing for the season today. From the “up tees” on number 17, I hit a driver into a stiff…
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