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    P. S. I'm friends with an actual monk (beard, robes, praying seven times a day including at night. In case…
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    • To be clear, we're talking about living like monks with a $268,000 annual salary and 3 months vacation every summer.…
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    • "A lot could go wrong." Scarily, it's not even that a lot has to go wrong. If, as Christina Romer…
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    • Adding: for years now "cultural conservatives" like Rod Dreher have been bewailing the advance of equal rights for LGBTQ people…
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    • Thanks for your comment. You're absolutely right that the US has its own fascist and racist-based political history. In addition…
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    • Good analysis. I'll just put a marker down on the likelihood that Dominion and Fox settle out of court. It's…
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    • I've heard community organizers talk about the distinction between "organizing for" and "organizing against". Like all such binaries, it breaks…
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    • Yep, exactly. Adding: Trying to pry away a politician's "base" is a fool's errand. Trump's "base" (like Barry Goldwater's base,…
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    • History doesn't repeat but sometimes it rhymes. This post brought to mind (again) Jimmy Breslin's "How the Good Guys Finally…
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    • Yes, all of this. Different generations have different responsibilities. It looks like our generation will have the responsibility to keep…
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    • Good, solid contrarian analysis. I'll just lay the following marker down now so I can say "I told you so"…
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    • Biden's bipartisanship at the beginning of his speech---welcoming McCarthy, highlighting the bipartisan bills he's already signed into law and the…
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    • If memory serves, there were periodic roars of disapproval from the Right about episodes, themes, and guests on Sesame Street…
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    • Hopefully there are enough Democrats who've learned that the best strategy is situations like this is simply to draw a…
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    • Good, solid, sober-minded analysis. One minor addition: though raised Sikh, Haley converted to Christianity in her 20s and attends a…
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    • Additional bit of (likely) relevant history: all the grandparents in Czechia remember the crushing of the Prague Spring and the…
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    • Perhaps if you're naming your special anti-crime policing unit SCORPION, there's reason to rethink your entire approach to policing?
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    • Good point. More broadly, Republicans are, generally speaking, against *any* effective action by the federal government especially if it's undertaken…
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    • This story is a great example of how dealing with Trump (and people like him) is, at its core, really…
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    • Charlie Baker is in a similar position in Massachusetts. (He's stepping down after two terms and taking over the NCAA...which…
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