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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Sara Silverman on how to win in Florida

Friday, September 26, 2008

Before I posted this video I sent a link to a friend, to get his opinion as to whether I should post it. I thought it was funny, but I didn’t want to offend. I won’t mention my friend’s name, since I have a sort of policy about exposing anyone else to abuse, but he […]

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Interesting

Thursday, September 25, 2008

I’m no big fan of Andrew Sullivan, though he does seem to have the intellectual honesty to be repelled by modern day Republicanism. But I was interested in this post from his blog, which my wife passed along to me. I’ve never been convinced that Sarah Palin is indeed the mother of that poor baby […]

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Debate Party Tomorrow

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Everyone’s invited to Groton Democratic Headquarters at 303 Route 12 (Geico Insurance Building) to watch Barack Obama either crush John McCain or debate an empty chair. We had pretty good turnout for the acceptance speech, and we’re hoping for good turnout tomorrow. If you want to be an extra good Democrat, drop by at around […]

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Please sign my son’s petition

Thursday, September 25, 2008

The following is adapted from an email I, along with others, received from my son today. Please sign this petition. There is a bill introduced by Ted Kennedy and co-sponsored by our buddy Obama which will allow Teaching Assistants like myself to organize a union. It’s really important to me and will only take a […]

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Thinking about bailouts

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

One reason it’s not a good idea to pass a massive bailout without thinking is, tautologically speaking, because you don’t think about what you’re doing. That’s the essence of the Paulson plan, of course, to stop us from thinking-to make us react out of fear. And, as Matt Yglesias points out, another objective is to […]

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Vote Now!

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

A good friend and loyal reader just alerted me to the fact that PBS is conducting a poll on whether Sarah Palin is qualified to be Vice President. The right wing is trying to stuff the ballot box. We must rise up in righteous anger and do the same. Vote here.

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Heads we lose, tails we lose

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

A consensus appears to be emerging among the reality based that Paulson’s plan is to pay top dollar for the junk he wants to buy, since that’s the only way the “plan” to save the banks will work. If he paid what the stuff is worth, many of them would still be underwater. In other […]

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A few echoes and a modest proposal

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

The bad thing about being an evening blogger, particularly when things are moving fast, is that all the good observations are made before you get a chance to get in front of the keyboard. This is doubly so in the case of the bailout, because of the looking-glass nature of what’s going on out there. […]

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Random notes

Monday, September 22, 2008

This is one of those days in which things happen so fast it makes your head spin. I’ll confine myself to passing on some random observations. First, a point that seems obvious, upon reflection. Dean Baker points out that there must definitely be something wrong with a bailout proposal that has corporations clamoring to be […]

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2.5 Billion in bonuses to Lehman Brothers fat cats

Sunday, September 21, 2008

You truly couldn’t make this stuff up. (Via Americablog, via Naked Capitalism, via the UK Times Online: STAFF at Lehman’s New York office who helped to cause the world’s biggest corporate bankruptcy are to share in a $2.5 billion bonanza. The bonus, which has been described by London staff as a “scandal” has been pledged […]

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