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Monthly Archives: April 2010

How did these guys ever get elected in the first place?

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Why do I not find this surprising? Democrats probably didn’t expect to find themselves in this position: On the cusp of moving a big Wall Street reform bill to the Senate floor, with Republicans, as if immune from political pressure, banding together to block them. But they knew it could happen. Some even would have […]

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Is everything left-right?

Monday, April 19, 2010

This Hullabaloo post got me thinking. Digby discusses a blog post by a fellow named Dennis Praeger whining about the fact that the left has imposed anti-smoking ordinances on the good Americans on the right. There is a tendency, more pronounced (I think) on the right than the left, but general enough, to place issues […]

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This guy doesn’t like Goldman Sachs

Sunday, April 18, 2010

We have the right to free speech in this country. Some of us are dumb enough to actually try to use it, but for the most part its circumscribed within fairly narrow limits by those who have the ability to determine what goes into the discourse. Of course, we like to believe we’re number one […]

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Can you hear the people clamor? The media can.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Paul Choiniere of the Day has written a reasonably good op-ed piece about the tax situation in this state. He points out what everyone who pays attention already knows: that the tax burden in this state is regressive, and that despite the squawks of the business community the business tax burden is not especially high. […]

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I’m just a country lawyer, but…

Friday, April 16, 2010

Why is this not conspiracy to defraud? Goldman Sachs has been accused of fraud by the SEC, but its apparent partner in fraud will emerge far richer and unscathed. … Paulson & Co., made a $3.7 billion profit by betting against the housing market as it nose dived in 2006 and 2007. On Friday, the […]

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Friday Night Music-The Duke

Friday, April 16, 2010

This song was a recent oldie when I got my first transistor radio. A seminal work. Gene Chandler doing Duke of Earl. I love this video. The man loves his work.

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More whining about tea parties

Friday, April 16, 2010

Yesterday I got cranky about the outsize attention lavished on tea parties. I should have waited a day, so that I could include the New London Day, which has spent much time and energy trying to placate the local right. It has done the Day no good, since it is still constantly attacked as a […]

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Not so fast there, Benny

Thursday, April 15, 2010

The Pope, having failed to offload guilt on the press, Jews and gays (in that order) is talking about penance. This is perceived as a step forward by the pontiff, accepting responsibility for something. But hold on there. When I was just a wee lad, I learned that there’s a road to travel before one […]

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Fuzzy math

Thursday, April 15, 2010

An interesting problem in mathematics: How many left wing demonstrators does it take to equal one tea party demonstrator? Today’s Boston Globe makes Sarah Palin’s tea party appearance, before at most 6,000 people front page news. Okay, the home town paper. So how explain the front page article in today’s Times, earnestly trying to explain […]

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Some memes never die

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

They just evolve. Remember Lucky Duckies? Lucky duckies is a term that was used in Wall Street Journal editorials starting on 20 November 2002 to refer to Americans who pay no federal income tax because they are at an income level that is below the tax line (after deductions and credits). They’re back, in a […]

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