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Comments on Open Mic for the week of 3/10/25 by Brandon Berg in reply to Saul Degraw

There's a long history of the federal government using tax money to bribe people, organizations, and states to do things it lacks the constitutional authority to force them to do, or to do itself.

I'm all for the Courts cracking down on this, but the people who were cheerleading while Democrats did it, are only now crying foul, and will go back to cheerleading when Democrats are back in power, can die in a fire.

Oof. That just moved farther and farther down the left tail as it went on, and I'm not talking about the political spectrum.

Really long. He publicly announced his diagnosis in 2014. I wasn't a consistent reader, so after five years or so, when he kept turning up alive, I figured he had beaten it, but I guess that's not really a thing with multiple myeloma.

It's a shame. I had my political differences with him, but he was smart, and interesting, and I preferred a world and a blogosphere with him to one without him.

 

 

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