Monthly Archives: June 2020

The thin blue lies

Posted on June 30, 2020 by oddmanout215

Testilying by cops is “the other side of the coin of this issue of police brutality. In the same way that we haven’t had good methods of keeping track of police brutality by particular officers, there has been even less … Continue reading →

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Regarding a (fat orange) face in the crowd

Posted on June 22, 2020 by oddmanout215

“I think he’s done. Can I stick a fork in him now?” Swamp Rabbit was reacting to Donald Trump’s rally in Tulsa, OK, where he managed to fill only 6,200 of the arena’s 19,000 seats after bragging that his campaign … Continue reading →

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‘Autocrat’ doesn’t quite say it

Posted on June 16, 2020 by oddmanout215

We were reading from Masha Gessen’s Surviving Autocracy, a book that has appeared at exactly the right time: If politicians, journalists, and even kitchen-table debaters adopted the habit of defining their terms, we would understand each other better — and … Continue reading →

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Who do you believe, police or your lying eyes?

Posted on June 8, 2020 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit wanted to know what I thought of the four Minneapolis cops who were arrested and charged in the killing of George Floyd. I told him lying with impunity used to be one of the perks of the job, … Continue reading →

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Would you like more curfew with your lockdown?

Posted on June 2, 2020 by oddmanout215

NBCPHILADELPHIA I was jawing with Swamp Rabbit when my phone started making those strange emergency alert noises. “Only essential personnel allowed outside,” the text read. WTF? We figured a tornado was coming, or maybe a nuclear attack. In fact, the … Continue reading →

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At times, history rhymes

Posted on June 2, 2020 by oddmanout215

“When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled ‘made in Germany’; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, ‘Americanism.’” Halford E. Luccock, … Continue reading →

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