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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Human Nature

Monday, June 22, 2009

According to Thinkprogress, Joe Scarborough has taken John McCain and Lindsay Graham to task for criticizing Obama’s hands off approach to the Iranian situation: SCARBOROUGH: All we would do is undermine those people in the street, who the second that they are attached to the United States of America, the country after all that’s been […]

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A silver lining to every cloud

Monday, June 22, 2009

Thanks to my sister for sending me this.

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Sunday Book Review

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Be warned. This is long and I’m not sure it’s worth the reading, but I enjoyed writing it, so what the heck. Most of the books I read concern events that happened a long long time ago, if not far away. Thus, they are not really appropriate for comment on this blog. The book I […]

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Stating the obvious, take 2

Saturday, June 20, 2009

It is inconceivable to me that there is anyone out there who disagrees with Obama’s response to the Iranian election and the subsequent unrest. It seems so obvious that the folks in power there would just love to tar the opposition as American pawns.In fact, they are already forcing people to confess to being agents […]

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Friday Night Music-Marvin Gaye

Friday, June 19, 2009

As best as I can determine, I haven’t posted Marvin before. I can’t imagine why.

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A loss for Groton

Friday, June 19, 2009

Over the course of the last 40 years or so great chunks of Groton have been preserved for posterity as Open Space. Lots of folks were involved in the various efforts to preserve the many parcels that have been saved, but one person was central to them all. Groton owes a huge debt of gratitude […]

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Putting things in perspective

Thursday, June 18, 2009

I hadn’t heard about Congressman Pete Hoekstra (R) comparing he and his fellow Republican twitters with the folks storming the battlements in Iran, but he did. And here’s a blog with some great editorial comment about it.

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Stating the obvious

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

It is common for the obvious to be overlooked in political debate. Buzzwords are allowed to fly around without, it seems, anyone slowing things down and examining the reality that is allegedly being discussed. Double and triple kudos, therefore, to David Leonhardt of the New York Times, who penned a great column this morning about […]

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New Toy

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Recently the folks who manage my office (I am not a management type) discovered that we could consolidate our mobile phone plans and save enough money to get “free” blackberrys (is that the correct plural in this context?) all around (or at least around all the partners). So, today, I became the semi-proud possessor of […]

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Ari Fleischer: Still Spinnin’ after all these years

Monday, June 15, 2009

Are Republicans deluded, liars or both? Today’s example is Ari Fleischer, who says that George Bush deserves credit for the reformist surge in Iran. On one level these kinds of claims are untestable, but what we know about human nature argues strongly against Ari’s position. Both Bush and Ahmadinejad were deeply unpopular in their own […]