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Monthly Archives: June 2008

More on FISA

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Glenn Greenwald has an excellent piece on the FISA bill, as well as the mainstream media reaction to it, which is to hail it as a compromise rather than the sell-out that it is. At times like this, mega corporations must stick together. Via that article, an honorable exception, from, who else? Keith Olbermann. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2MpyODTLnY[/youtube] […]

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Maine blogging

Saturday, June 21, 2008

My wife and I are spending the weekend in Ogunquit, Maine. I am in no shape to write anything halfway intelligible, so I’m just going to post a few pictures, which might illustrate the amazing changes of weather, or at least cloud and fog cover throughout the day. Our room has a view of the […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, June 20, 2008

I thought about posting this once before, but held back. This is a song that had a hugely profound impact when it was released, more than any single Dylan song. It’s become a bit of a cliche, I guess. The words don’t necessarily relate to today’s events, but the title does. Maybe this is just […]

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Joe Courtney does us proud, Congress sells us out

Friday, June 20, 2008

We can be justly proud that our Congressman voted against Iraq war funding and against the outrageous FISA bill, as did all our Connecticut Democrats. It is unlikely that the Congress has ever surrendered so much power to a president in this nation’s history. They have made the most unpopular and no doubt worst president […]

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Obama does a Lieberman-endorsement redux

Thursday, June 19, 2008

If further proof that Obama is not the second coming (was there a first coming?), you can find it here, at Tom Tomorrow’s site: So Barack Obama just recorded a radio ad for Rep. John Barrow (D-GA). Barrow has accused Democrats of wanting to “cut and run” in Iraq, and enthusiastically supports telcom immunity. He […]

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Sitting in Judgment

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Yesterday I took a night off from blogging because I was in Hartford, judging moot court at UConn Law School. This gives us practicing lawyers the rare opportunity to play judge. It’s a lot of fun, making the poor law students squirm. The case this year was a civil case, which made me feel more […]

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Put pressure on Steny Hoyer and his gang

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Consider giving money to put pressure on Steny Hoyer to stop trashing the constitution. You can donate here. Glenn Greenwald explains: It is now definitively clear that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is the driving force behind a bill — written by GOP Sen. Kit Bond — to vest the President with vast new warrantless […]

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A new definition of “mostly”

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

According to my Dictionary, “mostly” means “for the greatest part; mainly”. I looked it up to make sure that I hadn’t misconceived its meaning after reading this comparison of Bush and McCain in this morning’s Times. What with Bush’s second coming trying to distance himself from his soul mate, the Times provided a handy guide […]

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Open letter to Joe Courtney

Monday, June 16, 2008

Dear Joe: A few months ago you and most of the other freshmen Democrats took a courageous stand. You were among the most courageous, because it was not so clear then that the Democrat with the narrowest 2006 margin of victory would have such an easy time winning re-election. You voted to preserve the Constitution […]

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Norwich Bulletin takes on the Courant

Monday, June 16, 2008

It’s hard work, but someone has to do it. The Hartford Courant has made great strides in trivializing the news. It has its sight set on even greater depths, aiming toward a fifty-fifty mix of ads and news-lite. Today, the Norwich Bulletin proved it was up to the challenge. It’s had lots of practice, of […]

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