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A short poem

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Senator Andy Maynard shared this with me yesterday at the Groton Federation of Democratic Women’s fundraiser, and I’m passing it along. Does this sound like anyone you know: A Dead Statesman I could not dig, I dared not rob and so I lied to please the mob Now all my lies are proved untrue and […]

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Blackwater sues families of dead mercenaries

Saturday, June 9, 2007

Talk about ambivalence. Blackwater has sued the families of the mercenaries (I try to keep this a no-euphemism zone) killed in Fallujah in what may be the ultimate SLAPP suit : Blackwater has now lifted this atrocity to a whole new level by going on the offensive and suing the families for $10 million. The […]

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People with scruples need not apply

Saturday, June 9, 2007

Does there come a point when death qualification deprives a defendant of a jury of his or her peers. In Today’s Times we learn that 60% of the people in this country may now be effectively disqualified from sitting on death penalty juries. All a prosecuter has to do to disqualify someone with the slightest […]

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A confession of error

Thursday, June 7, 2007

I owe Mark Colella an apology. Colella, as you probably recall, is the guy that Lou Deluca accused of beating his granddaughter. I said something in a post yesterday about Deluca sending two thugs to beat up one thug, thus implicitly buying Deluca’s story that Colella really was beating his wife. I don’t know what […]

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Breaking away

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

The Vermont Secession movement is alive and well. I think it’s terribly selfish of them to not invite the rest of New England along. We could detach Fairfield County if they wanted, so our sole Republican Congressperson would feel more at home. The folks in Vermont have it right: “The argument for secession is that […]

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Consequences, or the lack thereof

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

It’s not that I disagree with the Day’s call for Lou Deluca to resign. I just find it hard to understand why our crusading local newspaper finds it so easy to see that consensual blowjobs or mafia hits merit removal from office, while premeditated wars of choice apparently don’t. What kind of country do we […]

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Tom Allen redux

Monday, June 4, 2007

Yesterday I posted a link where you can donate to Tom Allen. It’s a perfectly good link, but for those of us who would like to take vengeance, as petty as it may be, this is a better place to go. Tom is trying to capitalize on Lieberman’s perfidy to raise money:

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Talking peace and Bush foreign policy disaster at Bowdoin

Sunday, June 3, 2007

There was a political interlude during the reunion festivities at Bowdoin, one that made me rather proud of my Alma Mater. On Saturday we attended a forum given by Tom Allen ’67, Laurence Everett Pope, ’67 and Dunbar Lockwood ’82 on Resolving Conflict: Three Approaches to Peace. Allen is presently a Congressman from Maine’s First […]

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Random pictures from Maine

Sunday, June 3, 2007

A few pictures from Brunswick, Maine. We went to an art gallery/cafe in an old mill on the former site of Fort Andross, where we saw this piece/installation, whatever: A view of the Androscoggin from Fort Andross: Finally, a lion at the art museum.

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Maine

Saturday, June 2, 2007

As promised (or threatened), a few pictures from Maine, taken on the trip up to Brunswick to attend my reunion. Our pattern is to leave home early, get to Maine as fast as we can, and then get off the highway and poke around on Route 1. Perkins Cove in Ogunquit has become one of […]

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