CT Blue

Normally, at this time of the year, I write a post with my predictions for the coming year. Here’s last year’s, which holds up reasonably well, considering I had no reason to predict a pandemic when I wrote it. I did have reason, given her age, to suspect that Ruth Bader Ginsburg might not make […]

I’ve mentioned before that I read the Boston Globe, primarily because my eldest works for them. They also have relatively decent comics, including Bill Griffith’s Zippy, of which I am a big fan. Griffith lives in East Haddam now, by the way, and often features local landmarks in his strip. Lately Griffith has been sharing […]

I didn’t watch last night’s debate, but then, if you read the title of this piece, you already knew that. I didn’t actually watch the Kennedy-Nixon debates, being only 10 at the time, but I did become aware, even then, that the “winner” was not the person who made the better argument, but the one […]

I was a bit struck by this from an article on Crooks & Liars about a poll that found that Trump has not had much luck painting Biden (of all people) as a dirty fucking hippie: There is at least one cause for hope for Trump in the poll: Forty-one percent of voters agreed with […]