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Monthly Archives: July 2011

What did we do to deserve this?

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

I now officially resent the fact that I am going to have to vote for Obama in 2012. I have tried, out of respect for some that I love, to give him the benefit of the doubt, but this tears it: President Obama announced his support Tuesday for a deficit-reduction plan drafted by a bipartisan […]

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Wildlife sighting

Sunday, July 17, 2011

While putting the final touches on my previous post (which I was writing out on my patio) what should come walking through my yard but a coyote. Unfortunately, by the time I was able to get the camera on my Ipad going, he had skedaddled over the road and into a neighbor’s yard, so no […]

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Pity the flimflammed rich

Sunday, July 17, 2011

This is one in which I have a hard time picking sides: Ray Haarstick is an engineer and businessman who founded a company that makes software for private equity firms. He has zero fear of complex financial deals. Yet the Waltham businessman said he felt duped after he bought a $1.4 million condo from insurance […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, July 15, 2011

For my little sister

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Art on Groton Bank returns

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Our friend Audrey Heard is no longer running the show, but Art on Groton Bank goes on. Besides checking out the art you can hike to the top of the newly re-opened Monument. It takes place at Fort Griswold State Park this Saturday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

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This is what we’re up against

Thursday, July 14, 2011

I’m sitting in my office around noon today, and I get a call. We operate rather democratically at my firm. My calls aren’t screened and I never know in advance who’s calling. The caller is a man who doesn’t give his name until I ask. He begins by saying something to the following effect: I’m […]

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A new meaning for centrist

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

According to the headline in today’s Day, Obama is staking out a centrist position in the ginned up “debt crisis”. Given that he is proposing Medicare cuts opposed by the vast majority of Americans, and that even Olympia Snowe can’t support them, we must conclude that the term “center”, at least in politics, has a […]

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In which I (sort of) defend Michelle Bachman

Monday, July 11, 2011

Michelle Bachmann is taking a little bit of heat for the rapidity with which she signed that Family Values oath, with its statement that black families were better off under slavery, and for her general propensity to compare everything she doesn’t like to the imposition of slavery: – Health Reform: In a 2009 speech in […]

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We’re all bozos on this bus

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Today’s theme is stupidity, the stupidity often enforced upon us by an increasingly more powerful ruling class and the propaganda which has almost totally replaced all other sources of information to which the masses in this country are exposed. The topic finds it’s way here serendipitously, being suggested by various things upon which I’ve stumbled […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, July 8, 2011

Jethro Tull

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