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Monthly Archives: February 2009

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One disadvantage to being a reality based type of blog, is that you are under a certain obligation to admit that you are wrong. So today, I must admit that I have been wrong on a regular basis about something. I have, on a number of occasions, bemoaned the fact that Harry Reid has passively […]

Partisanship

Sunday is becoming prime rant day. Today, as so often in the past, I must take exception to a “balanced, pox on both their houses” article by Sheryl Gay Stolberg of New York Times. The current trope is that Washington has become more partisan in the past 20 years. It may very well be true […]

Jersey Boys

My wife and I, along with my sister and one of her friends, went to see Jersey Boys at the Bushnell in Hartford. Unsurprisingly, the youngest people in the theater by far were the folks on the stage. For those who don’t know, Jersey Boys is a musical based on the career of the Four […]

A Building occupied at NYU

Yesterday my wife took advantage of her weekly furlough day to visit Son #2 in New York. She met him around lunchtime. Turns out he was fresh from occupying a building at NYU, which the authorities appear to have re-taken shortly after he exited to keep his date with his Mom. The tactics were oddly […]

Friday Night Music-The Ronettes

The obvious choice this week, since Estelle Bennett, Ronnie’s sister, died this week. There are actually several versions of Be My Baby on youtube, but I had to spend a deal of time trying to find one that at least looked like it was an un-lip-synched version. If this one was lip-synched, they did such […]

Truly Tasteless

But funny.

Simmons to take on Dodd?

Rob Simmons is talking himself up as a challenger to Chris Dodd. Given the dismal state of the Republican Party in Connecticut he’s a logical choice. The idea that he could run as an ecomonic populist, which is the kind of stuff he’s spouting, strikes anyone with knowledge as absurd, but just remember, Joe Lieberman […]

Comments

If you are lucky enough to be blogless, you may be unaware that there are actually spam comments. Most of them are caught by spam-comment catching software, but some sneak through. None actually get posted unless I approve them. Lately, I’ve been impressed to see the sophistication of whatever software these folks are using to […]

“A” For Effort

I had to miss Joe Courtney’s appearance in Groton tonight. Both my wife and I were sick, and spent the day in bed. I figured I was doing a public service by keeping the germs here at home. Now I’m sitting in front of my computer, just a little worried that I may not be […]

Burris implodes

Politicians are amazing people. Roland Burris is pretty obviously a serial liar. His story has changed from day to day, gravitating ever so slowly toward an admission that there was some sort of quid pro quo for his Senate seat. Here is a guy who could have lived out a respectable life and gone on […]