Skip to content

Monthly Archives: November 2008

Some promises shouldn’t be kept

Monday, November 24, 2008

There’s been a lot of speculation about whether Obama will keep all his promises, usually from the perspective of those who are afraid that Obama won’t do what he has promised to do, e.g, end torture or exit from Iraq. After all, Obama is a politician, and although he appears to be an extraordinarily honorable […]

Filed in Obama | | Comments (0)

Thanksgiving Warmup

Saturday, November 22, 2008

My brother in law is staying with us for an extended visit, and today we went to have lunch with one of his sons, who lives in upstate New York. It seemed more convenient to meet halfway, and what better place, in this season, than the site of the second most famous Thanksgiving Dinner in […]

Filed in Ramblings | | Comments (1)

Friday Night Music-Pat Benatar

Friday, November 21, 2008

A search of my past blog posts indicates I haven’t put up a Pat Benatar video, unless I did so on my old blog. One of the mysteries of youtube is the fact that some artists are well represented, while with others there’s slim pickings. There’s only one decent video of Hit Me With Your […]

Filed in Music | | Comments (0)

Crazy

Thursday, November 20, 2008

What were these judges thinking? A state appeals court has ruled that a newspaper can be sued for libel for reporting allegations from a lawsuit before any court proceedings have taken place. The ruling reversed a lower court ruling that dismissed a libel claim against The Record of Bergen County brought by Thomas John Salzano, […]

Filed in Lawyer stuff, Media | | Comments (0)

Second most important election of the year

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Henry Waxman beat John Dingell in a secret ballot among House Democrats. Waxman will now chair the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Dingell has been a pawn of the auto industry for years, and is as much responsible for Detroit’s shortsighted approach to its business as were the managers that flew their private jets to […]

Filed in Environment, Politics | | Comments (0)

Gil Shasha prevails

Thursday, November 20, 2008

This is a little different, and is of no particular political interest, but I must register my delight upon reading this story (Shasha prevails at ‘last trial’) in the New London Day. Gil is no longer practicing, for reasons that are fairly murky, as the article states, but whatever the reason, he’s gone out in […]

Filed in Local issues | | Comments (2)

Compassion for the downtrodden

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

My wife told me about this. She is an honest person, as everyone knows, but I couldn’t help think that she was delusional: The governors of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey are asking the federal government for a $48 million emergency grant to help thousands of financial industry workers who are losing their jobs.…The […]

Filed in Economics | | Comments (1)

Fool them thrice, or more

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

From the New York Times: The Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., on Tuesday rejected pleas to use money from the $700 billion bailout program to help homeowners avoid foreclosure or to stave off bankruptcy by Detroit’s Big Three automakers. Facing a barrage of complaints from Democratic lawmakers that he was ignoring the will of […]

Filed in Economics, Joe Courtney | | Comments (1)

Update

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Last night I claimed victory in the Lieberman bet I made with a friend so many months ago. (To recap: I bet that the Dems would not bounce Lieberman as committee chair even if they got 57 members in the caucus.) Last night, I invited my opposite number to concede defeat. Well, yesterday I was […]

Filed in Lieberman | | Comments (0)

I’m declaring victory

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

It is with unmixed sadness that I must claim victory in my bet with a sometime liberal drinker. Almost a year ago I bet him that the Democrats would not strip Joe Lieberman of his chairmanships, even if they won 57 seats. I even unilaterally changed the rules to exclude Lieberman from the count. It’ […]

Filed in Lieberman | | Comments (3)