Posts by Robert Harrington
Don’t succumb to despair
Releasing the kraken
Go ahead, make my day
An account from the past
What’s up with Mark Meadows?
The cut-and-paste method for denialism
“Not guilty by reason of insanity”
I admit it, I am not a lawyer. Nevertheless, I think I have the key to Donald Trump’s very best plea. In fact, it’s the only plea that might actually work. But I hasten to add that I am in absolutely no danger of giving the game away, because it’s a plea that won’t happen.…
Read MoreJoe Biden’s amazing climate victory
The Trump Secret Service red herring
Much has been said and written on the topic of what to do about Donald Trump’s Secret Service detail should he be sent to prison. The narrative goes something like this: due to a provision enacted in 1965, all former US presidents are afforded their own Secret Service detail for life. Therefore, because there is…
Read MoreNevertheless, she persisted
The one thing that must happen with Donald Trump’s 1/6 criminal trial
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy
When Republicans use our money to deceive us
This is going to be the worst month of Donald Trump’s life (so far)
Here’s some irony for you
The cult of death
Winning through attrition
What will it be like to have a former president in prison?
Republican hath its privileges
What more must it take?
Coincidence?
Of all the beliefs of conspiracy theorists perhaps the most bewildering is their disavowal of coincidences. Comment sections of articles, memes and even physical posters on actual walls declare their ignorance to the world with the words, “I don’t believe in coincidences,” or, “There’s no such thing as a coincidence.” Sometimes it’s expressed with the…
Read MoreAbout that “insurrection” charge…
So much for the party of limited government
Draw the line
Those of us ethically devoted to the First Amendment and morally constrained from interfering with it have a dilemma. At what point is the MAGA message too toxic and too corrupting to repeat? Where and how should we draw the line, and is it anti-democratic or anti-free speech to draw any line at all? It…
Read MoreDefending reality
Behold the fool
I don’t know of any polite way to put this or who needs to hear it, so I’m just going to come right out and say it. There is nothing — absolutely nothing — that says temperatures on earth have to be survivable by human beings. There are no cosmic rheostats controlling maximum highs and…
Read MoreDonald Trump just unwittingly spoke the truth for once
Donald Trump, narcissist
Cognitive dissonance
Last night my wife and I watched (for the second or third time) the Steven Spielberg film “The Post” with Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks. Set in 1971, the film depicts the true story of attempts by The Washington Post to publish the notorious Pentagon Papers, a set of classified documents regarding America’s shameful 20-year…
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