Author Archives: oddmanout215

Thanks for not coming to dinner

Posted on November 29, 2019 by oddmanout215

This week the media cranked out stories about how to peacefully coexist with jerks who end up eating Thanksgiving dinner at the same table with you. The sort of stories that are especially relevant if there are Trump fans among … Continue reading →

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GOP strategy — see, hear, speak no truth

Posted on November 22, 2019 by oddmanout215

We were on the way to a job upstate on Wednesday, listening to the impeachment hearings on the radio, waiting to hear what Trump’s foreign-service boy Gordon Sondland would say now that it was clear he hadn’t been forthright in … Continue reading →

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Stand by your monster

Posted on November 15, 2019 by oddmanout215

“Check it out,” Victor Cortez said, changing channels on the old Zenith I’d pulled out of a trash dump for Swamp Rabbit. The subject on MSNBC was the impeachment hearings. Same thing on CNN. But the big story on Fox … Continue reading →

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A wall can’t keep the future out

Posted on November 8, 2019 by oddmanout215

“So you’re telling me part of the multibillion-dollar wall Trump is having built on the Mexican border can be breached with a hundred-dollar saw? You’re not making this up?” Swamp Rabbit wasn’t making it up. He was reading from a … Continue reading →

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The ‘biggest’ impeachment ever?

Posted on October 31, 2019 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit’s parole officer, Victor Cortez, dropped by a few days ago and quickly started jabbering about current events. He was upset because Donald Trump had claimed the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by U.S. forces was a … Continue reading →

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Zuckerberg unbound

Posted on October 25, 2019 by oddmanout215

"So, you won't take down lies or you will take down lies? I think that's just a pretty simple yes or no." Complete exchange between @RepAOC @AOC and Mark Zuckerberg at today's House Financial Services Cmte hearing. Full video here: … Continue reading →

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If your bottom line is big money…

Posted on October 18, 2019 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit was desolate. His favorite basketball player, LeBron James, had let him down by criticizing Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey for tweeting something supportive of anti-China protesters in Hong Kong: Yes, we do have freedom of speech, but … Continue reading →

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Isn’t it obvious? He’s become a god

Posted on October 9, 2019 by oddmanout215

As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!). … Continue reading →

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How about a moat? And toss in some alligators

Posted on October 3, 2019 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit and I were drinking coffee from tin cups, listening to a Jimmie Rodgers album and reading a surreal story in Guardian UK: Donald Trump discussed shooting migrants in the legs to slow them down, after ordering advisers to … Continue reading →

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Thunberg’s warning to Earthlings

Posted on September 24, 2019 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit couldn’t get over it. First the 16-year-old, internationally famous environmental activist Greta Thunberg delivered her save-the-planet message to tens of thousands of protesters in Battery Park. Then she went to the United Nations and made a similar speech, … Continue reading →

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