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Wonko the Sane

But you can call me W. Or WTS. Or Sane. My name is Raymond J. Johnson Jr. Now you can call me Ray, or you can call me J, or you can call me Johnny, or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me Junie, or you can call me Junior. Now you …

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If The Glove Don’t Fit- Fake Forensic Science

So once I was on a jury in a civil case. The plaintiff contended he was in a parked car that was struck by another vehicle and suffered debilitating injuries that resulted in disability for which he should be compensated. The defendant was the insurance company of the vehicle that struck him. That his car …

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What Elsa Means To Me

It’s kind of disturbing to hear people who, when talking about the great news that LeFou in the live action Beauty and the Beast is going to be openly Gay (Huzzah!), conflate that with Elsa of Frozen as a repressed Lesbian because I think they fundamentally misunderstand the Elsa character. Look, there is nothing wrong …

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Not The Party Of Everyday People

DNC Chooses Not to Be the Party of Everyday People Joining us from Cleveland to discuss all of this is Nina Turner. She’s a former Ohio State Senator. She’s a college professor, a public speaker, a frequent media commentator and author and was a national surrogate for Senator Bernie Sanders during the 2016 Democratic presidential …

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The Sanders Response

Notes From The DTC

DTC stands for Democratic Town Committee and I found out in the last meeting I am a “guest” not a “member” which is really ok because unless I’m dedicated to a full scale hostile takeover (which I could easily achieve because I am without ruth and heart when it comes to local politics, and they …

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What Happened?

Be clear about what happened to Keith Ellison by Matt Bruenig, Medium 2/26/17 The Obama people did not rally around an existing candidate in the field that they thought was better. They went out and recruited someone. The point of this recruitment was to beat back the left faction that Ellison represented. They considered many …

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Elite Failure And The Anti-Democratic Equation

(T)he Anti-Life Equation is a formula for total control over the minds of sentient beings… (A) common interpretation is that the equation is a mathematical proof of the futility of living. I highlight this a lot, but I’m not the only one and they keep failing. The thing abou being in the 99th percentile is …

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Not A Cartnoon

A weird thing about me is that I had a chance to play with the synthesizer The Who used during their early experiments with repetitive noise at Michigan State University. It wasn’t much, just a box of patch cords and a wooden case like an old time telephone switchboard. I was never able to coerce …

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A Rant

Good News (If True)

It’s not much of a secret that I think a major reason fo the Democrats’ lack of electoral success is their embrace of Neo Liberal Republican-lite policies. Not only are Left positions more popular, but they are failing to provide any differentiation that distinguishes them from Republicans except in the areas of Cultural Tolerance and …

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We Need That Pipeline Why Again?

So a guy from a brokerage came by to pitch my Dad, Richard, on pipeline bonds the other day. To his credit he was dead against it on environmental grounds, but as I told him flat out- even if they’re paying 11% today they’re nothing but a Ponzi scheme because we don’t need them. Exxon …

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