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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Context? We don’t need no stinkin’ context!

Sunday, May 23, 2010

This piece from the New York Daily News admirably illustrates the sloppiness of the press these days There was a special election in Hawaii yesterday, and the Republican won-with 39.4% of the vote; the balance split between two Democrats, neither one of whom had the grace to withdraw and give the other a clear field. […]

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Convention, final chapter

Saturday, May 22, 2010

We are now back, weary to the bone, from the 2010 Connecticut Democratic Convention, a convention that will surely go down in history because-well, because it just will, that’s why. I am still somewhat piqued at the fact that I did not have access to wireless at the convention hall. I could have pecked stuff […]

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Friday Night Music-Mr. Bojangles

Friday, May 21, 2010

I always loved this song, which has been covered by quite a few people, but it was written by this fellow, Jerry Jeff Walker: I’m not crazy about this performance, but it’s the best of his I could find on youtube. Here, by the way, is the real Mr. Bojangles, a fellow named Bill Robinson, […]

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From the convention, Part 1

Friday, May 21, 2010

Well, my hopes that I could “live blog” the convention have been dashed. The convention was held at the Expo Center in Hartford. That would be the poor man’s convention center; the Republicans having scored the good one. In any event, my Ipad detected at least three wireless networks in the area, to which I […]

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Off to the convention

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Well, my wife and I are off to the convention tomorrow, along with our good friend Ruby. Now, if I were a twitterer, I would tweet from the convention. I actually do have a a twitter account, which I never use. Consequently, other than my wife and one local Democrat, my only “followers” are random […]

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Disparate treatment

Thursday, May 20, 2010

A few days ago I pointed out that Blumenthal had done something only Republicans are allowed to do. I noted a few examples of Republican malfeasance without discernible consequence, but it turns out that there’s an example much closer to the situation, featuring Lindsey Graham, John McCain’s soon to be successor as the media’s darling […]

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Bysiewicz decision

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Susan got beat badly. It’s a shame that this happened to her. From any point of view she’s qualified both intellectually and professionally to be Attorney General, but as I’ve said before, the legal questions were serious. Since the court ruled against her, it stands to reason that the court rejected both her claims-that she […]

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The dust begins to settle

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Excellent piece by Colin McEnroe about the Blumenthal kerfuffle. Is Raymond Hernandez the new Judith Miller?

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Blumenthal’s brilliant move

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

There are only two ways to explain Blumenthal’s political brilliance in claiming to have been in Vietnam, when he wasn’t, since this should certainly attract a lot of Republican voters that would otherwise have voted for McMahon. First, he may have a rich fantasy life, and actually believe he was in Vietnam. In this respect, […]

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I don’t control those Bishops, says the Pope

Monday, May 17, 2010

A couple of days ago I expressed a bit of amazement about the fact that the Cardinal of Boston didn’t just order a Catholic school district in his jurisdiction to reverse a decision to discriminate against a child whose parents are lesbians, despite the fact that the Cardinal said he disagreed with the decision. This […]

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