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Friday Night Music

Friday, December 2, 2011

Well, this is something completely different. Glenn Hardy is a local guy, who many years ago had the misfortune of trying to teach our kids to play the piano. Alas, he had no success in inspiring them to fall in love with the instrument, though they can both play tolerably and both went on to […]

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Friday Night Music-Veteran’s Day Concert

Friday, November 11, 2011

Okay, so it’s Veteran’s Day. To celebrate the holiday, I thought I’d root around for some songs about soldiers, and I’ve come up with four, so this is a bit of a concert. First, Donovan, singing Universal Soldier: A Doors Gem, a pretty good live version of Unknown Soldier: This next song was written in […]

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Marie Antoinette would feel right at home here

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

I would urge everyone to read these two posts (here and here) at Hullabaloo. The first about the fact that what the occupy movement is all about is a pervasive sense of injustice: that the mass of people is being treated unfairly by financial and governmental elites. The second illustrates the utter cluelessness of those […]

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Where do these people come from?

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

I know that Newt and his wife have long since become mere caricatures, but I can’t resist piling on. I ask you, of the two entities depicted here, which looks more like it’s not quite real. Barbie looks more lifelike than Callista. From TPM.

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Lazing away in Maine

Friday, September 9, 2011

I am writing this from a motel in Maine called the Norseman. Architecturally undistinguished it may be, but you can’t beat it for location; right on the beach in Ogunquit; where I spent the evening watching the moon go up. The only downside is the “free” internet is only randomly available. You can lose a […]

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Ramblings from Vermont

Monday, August 15, 2011

We have had only intermittent opportunity to connect to the Internet this week, and have not bothered to watch the idiot box, so we have some blessed relief from the dismal news, though we have some intimations of stock market crashes, still crazy Republicans, and revolution in Britain. Since my knowledge of the latest events […]

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Say it ain’t so, Joe

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

I began to suspect that my Congressman, Joe Courtney, voted for the Reward Republican Extortion Act of 2001 when I searched my email inbox and found nothing from his office, an unusual occurrence to say the least. Chris Murphy’s email explaining (trumpeting, really) his no vote was there, but no missives were there from Joe. […]

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Judge Thomas’s generous friends

Sunday, June 19, 2011

I’ll have to admit that I didn’t make it all the way through the article in the Times to which this post refers. It’s yet another story about the ethical blindness of Clarence Thomas. The story concerns the largesse shown by right wing millionaire Harlan Crow to Thomas. My overall impression is that his friend […]

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Greetings from Charleston

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Paul Simon was wrong. Nashville is not the cradle of the civil war. This is the place. Charleston, SC. We are staying at the Vendue Hotel, which is a stone’s throw from the water. They give you free wine and cheese at 4:00 PM. We were talking to the lady who was serving the wine […]

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Spaceman

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Keith Olbermann posts a picture of himself with the great Bill Lee. I recognized him right away, “though years have rolled over [his] head” and pounds have descended into his belly. It has always been my firm belief that Bucky Dent would never have had a chance to earn his eternal infamy had Don Zimmer […]

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