The Inside Poop

A survey of current political issues and opinions out there,
on the web and elsewhere.

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Response to Missing Quite a Lot

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Missing Quite a Lot ) If you, as I do, are tempted to ask how it is that all these newbie candidates keep bringi...
Friday, January 29, 2016

Response to Dying in Iowa

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Dying in Iowa ) And now, for your amusement, another topical Iowa reference : Q : "Is this Hell?"  ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Response to Trumping the Press

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Trumping the Press ) I don't get it! As far as I can tell, nobody anywhere, in any media, has used what, to ...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Response to Should Have Seen This Coming

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Should Have Seen This Coming ) It occurs to me, now that we're seeing a return to the old days -- the return...
Monday, January 11, 2016

Response to Unbearable Whiteness

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Unbearable Whiteness ) About W. Kamau Bell's “White people, come get your boy" : “Donald Trump isn’t...
Thursday, December 31, 2015

Response to Sexual Politics

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Sexual Politics ) Here's Donald Trump, justifying his retort to Hillary Clinton after she accused him of se...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Response to Exactly Revenge

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Exacting Revenge ) Eugene Robinson, of the Washington Post, makes a good point about Donald Trump : What Tr...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Response to Policing America

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Policing America ) I just want to introduce one possible complication to what seems like an otherwise very tho...
Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Response to Nothing to Fear

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Nothing to Fear ) It's a rare day that I find myself disagreeing with Kevin Drum, but today is indeed one of...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

Response to Political Anomalies

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Political Anomalies ) It's fun to think Vladimir Putin endorsed Donald Trump, but the truth is, he didn...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Response to Political Indigestion

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Political Indigestion ) This was good. Yes, there was  a lot of good material to chew on in that debate t...
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Response to Angry Gloom and Doom

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Angry Gloom and Doom ) Kevin Drum, of Mother Jones, live-blogged last night's debate , and I saw he wrote thi...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

Response to No Growing Up

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(See: Just Above Sunset: No Growing Up ) Two comparisons worth a closer examination, being between Donald Trump and (a) Richard Nixon, and...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Response to Affirmative Inaction

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Affirmative Inaction ) Remember the Bakke case, back in the late 1970s? That was the beginning of what we're ...
Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Response to Reductio

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Reductio ) Try these two headlines out as examples of Reductio Ad Absurdum: TRUMP: "NO APOLOGIES" F...
Monday, December 7, 2015

Response to Longing for Cheap Talk

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Longing for Cheap Talk ) Do we have any quotes anywhere from anyone explaining why it's important to call our...
Monday, November 30, 2015

Response to The Outcome of Outrage

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(See: Just Above Sunset: The Outcome of Outrage ) So the big question on everybody's mind this morning, because it's really hard t...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Response to The Counterattack

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(See: Just Above Sunset: The Counterattack ) I have been wondering lately what odds-maker Nate Silver has to say these days, and here he i...
Monday, November 23, 2015

Response to Dark Days Returning

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Dark Days Returning ) In spite of what a lot of people think, the 1960s were indeed dark times, with all the assa...
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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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