The Inside Poop

A survey of current political issues and opinions out there,
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Response to No Sufficient Second

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(See: Just Above Sunset: No Sufficient Second ) Whatever arcane rules and procedures of the Senate that Ted Cruz is wielding to get his wa...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Response to Jugglers and Comics

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Jugglers and Comics ) With money seeming to be at the center of everything we do in this country, you'd think...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Response to The Republican Revolution

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(See: Just Above Sunset: The Republican Revolution ) These are odd times we live in -- never being sure who to root for or against in a co...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

Response to The Third Story

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(See: Just Above Sunset: The Third Story ) Josh Marshall, remarking on the fact that you wouldn't see a reaction comparable to that of...
Monday, September 21, 2015

Response to What it Takes

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(See: Just Above Sunset: What it Takes ) Not to take away from that extremely helpful critique of Carly Fiorina -- the success so far of w...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

Response to Riding Humiliation to Victory

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Riding Humiliation to Victory ) Yes, this is one good theory of that exchange in New Hampshire: Those two guys...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

Response to The Night of the Shark

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(See: Just Above Sunset: The Night of the Shark ) I feel the same way about the shark. We had a neighbor over to eat dinner and watch the ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Response to Base Moves

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Base Moves ) Yeah, we always joke about the idea of the Republicans mucking up some government project, then turn...
Monday, September 14, 2015

Response to The Party of Celebrity

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(See: Just Above Sunset: The Party of Celebrity ) I've heard Fiorina explain away her business failures; she puts such a positive spin...
Saturday, September 12, 2015

Response to Making Useless Trouble

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Making Useless Trouble ) Sometimes, when struggling to understand something puzzling going on around us, it helps...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Response to The Eye of Some Tiger or Other

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(See: Just Above Sunset: The Eye of Some Tiger or Other ) I never really listened to all the words, but I always assumed "Eye of the ...
Monday, September 7, 2015

Response to The Big Wide World

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(See: Just Above Sunset: The Big Wide World ) While reading this, I was ready to jump in and remind those people who insist that all these...
Saturday, September 5, 2015

Response to Toward a Unified Theory of Trump

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Toward a Unified Theory of Trump ) I happen to disagree with Albert Camus' statement, that “There is but one ...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Response to Adaptive Christianity

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Adaptive Christianity ) And now for something completely different: A Defense of Donald Trump's Religion. N...
Friday, August 28, 2015

Response to America's Women

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(See: Just Above Sunset: America's Women ) The fact that so many women are impressed by this blatant lounge lizard makes me wish someb...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Response to Committing Journalism

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(See: Just Above Sunset:Committing Journalism ) When I first saw that video of the Donald Trump-Jorge Rojas bout, I assumed maybe I hadn...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Response to A Long Way

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(See: Just Above Sunset: A Long Time ) Reading Janell Ross's Washington Post piece on Donald Trump's defense of his use of the ter...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Response to Political Socialization

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Political Socialization ) Back in the 1980s, when I was publishing a national newsletter for the TV news industry...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

Response to Something Wicked

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Something Wicked ) As to the question of countries honoring "birthright citizenship", Trump must have h...
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Worked in and out of journalism for almost 50 years, including a stint at NBC News as a Today Show news assistant; as a photo editor at AP Photos in New York; as one of the founding employees of CNN in 1980 in Atlanta, starting and running the Satellite Desk; and as Publisher and Editor of TV News Journal, a newsletter for and about TV journalism.
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