The Inside Poop

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

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Response to To Be Perfectly Honest

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(See: Just Above Sunset: To Be Perfectly Honest ) Here's Stephanie Cegielski, writing in xojane.com about being hired for Donald Tru...
Friday, March 25, 2016

Response to Escalating Testosterone

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Escalating Testosterone ) God, this Trump guy is the Antichrist -- something which, until maybe just now, I didn...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Response to Another Winnowing

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Another Winnowing ) There's political metaphor and there's political metaphor: Yes, the Republican Pa...
Saturday, March 12, 2016

Response to A Red-Hot Friday

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(See: Just Above Sunset: A Red-Hot Friday ) During this "violence" phase of Trumpmania that we seem to be experiencing, I'v...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Response to The Other Two

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(See: Just Above Sunset: The Other Two ) I watched the Clinton/Sanders debate last night, at least half of it. I agree with Josh Marshall...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Response to In Medias Res Again

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(See: Just Above Sunset: In Medias Res Again ) This Thomas Frank guy, with his Trumpsplaining in the Guardian , sort of hits the nail on ...
Friday, March 4, 2016

Response to Political Disintegration

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(See: Just Above Sunset:  Political Disintegration ) I disagree with Josh Marshall and anybody else who thinks Mitt Romney's spiel y...
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Response to Stopping the Orange-Haired Frankenstein

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Stopping the Orange-Haired Frankenstein ) Every now and then, I feel I have to express what many of us liberal ...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Response to Getting Ugly Out There

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Getting Ugly Out There ) First, there's this scuffle between a TIME photographer and the Secret Service agen...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Response to After Nevada

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(See Just Above Sunset: After Nevada ) Once again, to all those Republicans who accuse Donald Trump of being a closet liberal, I have to ...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Response to Dead Stop

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Dead Stop ) Once again, Republicans are trying to shut down the government. They're always looking for ways ...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Response to While We Were Sleeping

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(See: Just Above Sunset: While We Were Sleeping ) I really liked reading Seth Stevenson in Slate, about hanging around the Jeb Bush campa...
Saturday, February 20, 2016

Response to Replacement Theory

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Replacement Theory ) One thing I haven't heard discussed anywhere in the recent shitstorm concerning the pro...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Response to Hillary's Hero

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Hillary's Hero ) I haven't always had a problem with Henry Kissinger. I remember the first time I be...
Monday, February 8, 2016

Response to Breaking the Spell

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(See: Just Above Sunset: Breaking the Spell ) Slate’s Elias Isquith, on Marco Rubio's age : As they once said of that cherubic whi...
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Response to After Iowa

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(See: Just Above Sunset: After Iowa ) If it's not one thing, it's another. First, you got your Republicans, and then your Democra...
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...
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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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