Archives in Category: 2024 Election

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Comic Relief

Posted on October 5, 2024

I cannot recall a time when I didn’t read the Sunday comics. Growing up, they came with the Sunday paper my Mother bought on the way home from church; now they come via the mail as part of the weekend

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Politics Is Going to the Cats

Posted on September 13, 2024

Since this is Friday the thirteenth, I’m waiting for a black cat to cross my path, arch its back, hiss, and possibly trip me for being in its way. Failing that, I can find no end of cats  on the

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The Morning After

Posted on September 11, 2024

In the end, Earl and I watched the Harris-Trump show. He stayed for the entire thing, while I left to read the paper. So I probably missed some of the salient moments that the various media focused on this morning.

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Debate Eve

Posted on September 9, 2024

It’s not exactly Christmas Eve, but there is a certain anticipation in the air about tomorrow’s so-called debate between candidate Harris and candidate Trump (listed alphabetically).

Are they rehearsing tonight? Taking the night off? Wondering how it will go? I

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Join Together

Posted on September 2, 2024

Campaign rhetoric builds on redundancy, that use of two or more words that say the same thing. Office seekers (and others) use it for emphasis, perhaps thinking they look smart. Or they’re emphasizing a point.

Here are some examples you’ve

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Back to Normal

Posted on August 23, 2024

The DNC has folded its tent like Bedouins in the desert cameling away. And life is as normal as possible in these times.

I turn to my gardens, which didn’t turn out at all like I’d hoped this year. My

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Kamala’s Night

Posted on August 22, 2024

It’s the last night of the DNC. Kamala (or ,la) Harris will make her case, The delegates will cheer; the pundits will pund; and the opinion columnists will opine. Tomorrow Chicago will remove all its armor from the streets around

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More in Play Here

Posted on August 21, 2024

This morning’s reveals and reviews of the various rah-rah speeches at the DNC last night made me wonder if I might have wanted to see them firsthand instead of reading about them in various publications this morning. I understand they

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DNC Roster

Posted on August 20, 2024

I’ve seen the schedule for various speakers tonight, and I’m not up for it. It’s not that I don’t agree with some of them; it’s that I’m old and go to bed earlier than when the top tier people are

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Chicago, Here They Come

Posted on August 19, 2024

The Democratic National Convention arrives in Chicago today with the smell of change in the air. And I’m not talking about the seasons. I’m talking about the nominees. Instead of Joe Biden, we’ve got Kamala Harris as the nominee for

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