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On drinking

Friday night in my twenties and early thirties was bar night. In Old Saybrook, Ct. we hung out at the Monkey Farm. The Farm was filled with memorable characters, including Tommy and Harry, the two owners. And, of course, there…

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A lesson or two

We underestimate the Democrats and their leaders. Over the past three years they have done quite well negotiating a difficult terrain. They engineered a major election victory in 2018. The decision to impeach Trump was impeccably timed. The hearings, presided over…

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Some fresh thinking

They were different conditions and times, but when I was in the Communist Party we made some of the same arguments in defending the Soviet Union and the other socialist countries as the authors do here in their defense of…

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Schiff shines

A superb summation of the impeachment hearings.

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If it smells …

Listening to Sondland elucidating Trump’s role at the top of the bribery-extortion food chain reminds me of the folk wisdom that has held up well across time: if it smells like s..t, it likely is.