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Monthly Archives: August 2009

Oh goodie

Monday, August 24, 2009

Snow Leopard is coming on Friday. I can’t wait. (For those of you stuck in the world of Windows, Snow Leopard is the latest major upgrade to the Mac operating system). Prudence would dictate that I wait a while, until at least the first minor upgrade when they work the major kinks out. But I […]

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I’m with Joe on this one

Monday, August 24, 2009

There’s some folks out there that are irate with Joe Courtney for declining to hold “town halls” on health care. You know the world is getting strange when people are complaining because they have been deprived of their right to disrupt what should be a peaceful meeting. Given modern communications, it is now possible to […]

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One, two, three, what are we fighting for?

Monday, August 24, 2009

My homepage on my browser is Buzzflash. It was the first left wing site I found and, during the 2000 election theft, made me feel like I wasn’t alone-that there were other people out there who saw what was going on and shared my outrage. I admit they get a bit breathless at times, but […]

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Yet another modest proposal

Sunday, August 23, 2009

My friend Bob Roth recently wrote about the fear that the teabaggers, et. al represent the beginnings of a nascent fascist movement, while Austin Cline over at Jesus General points out that the very people who are hurling this epithet at others are using the tactics that fascist movements historically use. It’s not an unreasonable […]

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Maybe we should have taken guns

Sunday, August 23, 2009

A couple of days ago I posted about a pro-health care event that was to be held today. I was always a little dubious about this particular event. The idea was to get people to link hands across the Gold Star Bridge. Now, I have ridden my bike across that bridge (on the sidewalk/bikeway) and […]

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Ahhh Vermont!

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Where else but Vermont. There is a dirt road from Weston (of the Vermont Country Store) to Landgrove, one of the most beautiful settings in Vermont. I have tried many times, and failed each time, to take a photograph that captures the beauty of the mountain valley at Landgrove. Only a painter could do it […]

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No, we can’t

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

In deference to my wife, who retains her fierce loyalty to Obama, I confess that I’ve been somewhat detached the last few days, lacking 24 hour a day access to the internet. Nonetheless, I can’t help but feel that real health care reform is slipping away, with the Obama administration sending, at best, mixed signals […]

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Local News

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

We in Groton and its environs will have a chance to show our support for Health Care Reform on Sunday, the 23rd. There will be a Hands Across SE CT for Health Care event, involving a human chain over the Gold Star Bridge. You can sign up for the Hands Across Southeastern Connecticut for Health […]

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Another Vermont mystery.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Just about every summer my wife and I make a point of going to Pawlet Vermont, to see whose picture adorns the home of an artist that lives by the dam there. Judging by my pictures, we didn’t make it last year, so I don’t know who was up there, but I was betting Barack […]

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More from the great state of Vermont

Friday, August 14, 2009

I am once again writing from the Long Trail Brewery, which features great beer and free Wi-Fi. I am blissfully unaware of everything going on in the wide world, with the single exception of the fact that there is a “death panel” debate going on, which is so stupid that I confess I lack the […]

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