Category Archives: history

The ‘cold civil war’ is warming up

Posted on December 13, 2019 by oddmanout215

Brrr! America is shivering through a cold civil war. The longer it persists, the more likely it is to end not with a whimper but with a bang. So says my friend Swamp Rabbit, a formerly apolitical drifter transformed into … Continue reading →

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Little Caesar’s bid to buy the presidency

Posted on December 5, 2019 by oddmanout215

This video is remarkable, asked about US a greenhouse gas emissions compared to China, Michael Bloomberg goes into a full throated defence of the regime in Beijing on the environment, on their lack of democracy. I can’t believe how bad … 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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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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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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Out with the old knave, in with the new

Posted on September 13, 2019 by oddmanout215

“John Bolton’s ouster makes the world safer,” according to a headline in The Nation, but the analysis that followed was unpersuasive. Yes, the mustachioed loony is gone but not his boss, who has launched a misguided trade war against China, … Continue reading →

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One step forward, ten steps back

Posted on September 6, 2019 by oddmanout215

Swamp Rabbit and I were wondering why some people still think progress is inevitable despite evidence that it’s being blocked on all fronts by the hog monster in the White House and his Republican enablers. A case in point: The … Continue reading →

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Oh, Baltimore!

Posted on August 2, 2019 by oddmanout215

I was trying to convince Swamp Rabbit that there was nothing new about Donald Trump’s style of racism, that Randy Newman sang about it long before Trump became president. I told him that Republican Richard Nixon, running for president in … Continue reading →

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