Hampton New Hampshire Mad Dog Democrat

"The trouble with life is the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt." --Bertrand Russell “Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.”--Christopher Hitchens

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Horses on Hampton Beach: The Straight Poop

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L ast night my wife was out to dinner and for once I had control of the TV. Ordinarily, by long established rights and privileges, she watc...

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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Downfall: Then and Now

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H orror movies have a strange fascination: part of the joy is walking out of the theater, into the light of day, safe. Of course, some, l...

Saturday, February 9, 2019

A New Liberal Deal

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O ne thing you can say about Fox News and Trump and Sean Hannity, and Ann Coulter--they are cartoons, but they are so obvious and in a sen...

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Private Health Insurance: Pros and Cons

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I f ever you have any doubts about the relative virtues of the American commercial health care system, aka private health insurance and Nat...

Carolyn Kormann and Boyan Slat: The Widening Gyre

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is lo...

Sunday, February 3, 2019

Trumped Up

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T here is no possibility I am the first to note the irony of the meaning of "trumped up." "fabricate, devise," 1690s,...

Trump, the Ravishing of White Women As a Trope

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W henever things slow down for Donald Trump, whenever he suffers a wound, he tweets MAGA or if he is particularly dyspeptic, he starts belc...

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