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Needs, wants, and habituated illusions
I need a car. Well, no, I don’t need a car. What I need is a way to travel locally, farther and faster than I can walk, while carrying passengers and goods. I can unpack that even more: I need goods (like groceries) that I choose, stockpiled in small quantities in my home, with the Continue reading
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It’s all distraction
The orange baby knows the Epstein files have its name all over the place. All it cares about is itself. All it’s worried about is the Epstein files. It’s willing to do anything to change the story, because changing the story is how it has managed to survive for decades. It won’t work forever, but Continue reading
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Oh great, another year of this
The orange baby seems to enjoy starting off its calendar years by presenting new evidence of how subhuman and despicable it is. It attempted a coup a few years back, on January 6. The US turned out to be a little bit too resilient for it, so the 2026 subhuman atrocity was aimed elsewhere. Like Continue reading
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This explains a lot
I’ve often been baffled by economists, who comport themselves as super-smart academics who have everything figured out, but in practice make claims that are absurd, predictions that are incredibly, obviously stupid and wrong, and analyses built on unreasonable, imagined bases. In today’s post, Paul Krugman (an economist with the distinction of having won the fake Continue reading
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156 Years Ago
“I submit that this question [of immigration] should be settled upon higher principles than those of a cold and selfish expediency. There are such things in the world as human rights. They rest upon no conventional foundation, but are eternal, universal and indestructible. “Among these is the right of locomotion; the right of migration; the Continue reading
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Oh, right, “AI”
“…the world’s shadiest art dealer… is pretty sure that if we keep shoveling words into the word-guessing program it will wake up and become intelligent. Which is just, you know, stupid. It’s like thinking that if we just keep breeding our horses to run faster, one of our mares will eventually give birth to a locomotive.“ Continue reading
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Sometimes it speaks the truth
“…a wrong Leader can only bring catastrophic results to a country, no matter which country it is.” –the orange baby Continue reading
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Remember Sarah Beckstrom
Sarah Beckstrom was a National Guard member from Summersville, West Virginia. She died from bullet wounds while deployed to Washington, D.C. “She swore an oath to defend the Constitution. Donald Trump violated it to put her there. She should never have been deployed at all. A federal judge ruled last week that Trump’s activation of the National Continue reading
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Thatcher and Reagan
You can trace a lot of the mess the world is in today back to two supervillains decades ago: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Calling them both supervillains may be slightly overstating things. In Reagan’s case, it’s quite possible that he just continued his acting career, as a politician, by repeating lines scripted for him. Continue reading
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Think about this
The orange baby’s administration is zeroing out the ability of the US government to compete with the rest of the world — including actual enemies — in cybersecurity. To the extent this is explained at all, it’s attributed to commercial vendors wanting no oversight, and “MAGA loyalists don’t care because they aren’t interested in leadership Continue reading
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I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate Bossypaws. I shouldn’t be surprised, but she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.
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