Thanksgiving

 

Jon Reisman

Bitter cynicism is a recipe for heartburn and despair. It is not a healthy state of being, and I have been struggling to find a more positive state of mind in the wake of a very disappointing election for Maine and the nation. It also makes it hard to write a Thanksgiving column, but here goes-

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Game Theory Rx: Tit for Tat

 

Jon Reisman

Elections have Consequences- Barack Obama

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Climate COP Out

 

Jon Reisman

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Stories for 2023

 

Jon Reisman

Several stories came across my laptop as 2022 wanes. They were not much mentioned by the legacy media, or they were spun as overwrought conservative conspiracy theories. 

• Governor Mills seeks to regulate and muzzle the less than obedient press. 

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Yiddish Wisdom for Augusta: Chutzpah, Mensch, Putz, Schmuck and Kochleffel

 

Jon Reisman

My maternal Grandfather was born in 1898 in Brooklyn, New York and named Abraham Lincoln Plaut by his German –Jewish immigrant parents. His father was a kosher butcher and he became an entrepreneur, author, English teacher and baseball coach. He idolized Woodrow Wilson, but nobody is perfect. He taught me pinochle, bridge, baseball and how to read a financial statement. His best gift was Yiddish, which linked me to my ethnic immigrant past and gave me a rich lexicon of expressions still serving me all these years later.

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Twas the Week Before Christmas

 

Jon Reisman

With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore and any non-cynics left

'Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the House

The lame ducks were plotting, preparing to pounce;

The earmarks were hung on the omnibus with care,

In hopes that Pelosi and Shumer would share;

Angus and Susan nestled snug on the Floor,

With visions of earmarks hung on the door;

And Chellie in her Pingree, and Jared in his flannel,

Had just settled down for a lobster regs panel.

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All a Twitter

 

Jon Reisman

“Something is rotten in the State of Denmark”- Marcellus in Hamlet, Act I, Scene IV, William Shakespeare

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Rotten to the Core

 

Jon Reisman

Last week’s column riffed off the continuing Twitter files revelations and the Hamlet quote “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” The rot and the stink runs deep. More evidence came to light on the US House floor and in revelations about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts mandated by the Biden administration that are guaranteed and designed to destroy freedom and prosperity. 

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Critical Column Theory

 

Jon Reisman

One presumably leftist Facebook commenter recently opined that I needed a real job. Apparently she/they (pronoun preferences were unstated and I do not want to be unintentionally offensive/disrespectful) were unimpressed with my post-retirement gig as a Statler and Waldorf intern.  Sitting in the gallery watching the show and making acerbic comments is a guilty pleasure, and intentionally aggravating certain Democrats and diversity divas is an added bonus.

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Governors, Education and Wokeness

 

Jon Reisman

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