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Friday Night Music-Vermont Bound

Tomorrow we are off on our annual sojourn to Vermont, so I thought I’d post something with a Vermont theme. The only song I could think of was Moonlight in Vermont. Unfortunately, Willie Nelson’s version, which was the first I ever heard and a great rendition, is not available as a video, nor is Ray […]

Boston Pics

My wife and I went to Boston this weekend to visit our youngest, which explains the fact that I didn’t post anything, except the drivel that precedes this post. Here’s a few pics, the first from the window of our hotel. We stayed at the Westin, which was definitely not our first choice, but it […]

Joe Courtney on the “Ed Show”

Boiling Mad

It’s not easy being a member of a minority group. It’s bad enough being marginalized, but it’s even worse to be smeared. Look at this quote from Talking Points Memo: But don’t mistake DeMint for a crank. He’s actually a consummate optimist. He says “Pat Toomey, who is running in Pennsylvania, is one of the […]

First Gasp for a New Geezer

I have to pay tribute to a friend of ours, who celebrated his 60th birthday last night with a big bash at the German club in Mystic. Peter and his wife, depicted below, are good Democrats both. He and I were both committed Lamont delegates at the 2006 state convention. Music was provided by the […]

Friday Night Music-The Ronettes

The obvious choice this week, since Estelle Bennett, Ronnie’s sister, died this week. There are actually several versions of Be My Baby on youtube, but I had to spend a deal of time trying to find one that at least looked like it was an un-lip-synched version. If this one was lip-synched, they did such […]

Comments

If you are lucky enough to be blogless, you may be unaware that there are actually spam comments. Most of them are caught by spam-comment catching software, but some sneak through. None actually get posted unless I approve them. Lately, I’ve been impressed to see the sophistication of whatever software these folks are using to […]

What’s an Economy For, Anyway?

Periodically my friend Bob Roth contributes a piece of writing. As they are normally much longer than a typical post, I have usually placed them on a separate page, to be forever enshrined as a link on the upper right hand side of the blog. Recently Bob sent me another, in which I think he […]

Friday Night Inaugural Concert

Here we are in the waning days of the Bush Administration. We all have to hope that there’s truly a new day dawning. So, to celebrate, I’ve tried to find some songs that are a bit appropriate. First, while the lyrics are not precisely apt, there’s enough in here to serve as a not so […]

Happy New Year

I have a tradition of spending the week between Christmas and New Years away from my office. I still put in at least half a day of work each day, but I do it here at home, which makes it more bearable. Still, it means I have lots of free time on my hand, and […]