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Nothing new here

Saturday, September 28, 2024

This article in the New London Day brought back memories. The Day reports that Old Lyme Democrats are using tracking technology to find the folks that are stealing their signs. There’s no indication that Republican signs are being stolen. Back in 1980 I was actually planning on voting for Barry Commoner, but with a few […]

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There’s a primary tomorrow

Monday, August 12, 2024

I haven’t posted for a while. I can explain. We spent last week in Vermont and my time was filled with family events. Well, not completely, but enough to keep me away from blogging. Also, it’s getting harder and harder to come up with anything that hasn’t already been beaten to death by the blogs […]

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Please sign our petition

Friday, March 8, 2024

This is a bit different type of post, as I won’t be dissing on any stable geniuses, talking about grifters, or bemoaning the failure of Democrats to get together on effective messaging. Besides being a now sporadic blogger, I am the chairman of the board of SEC-TV, the public access station that serves most of […]

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A sure bet

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

I wrote a few weeks ago about the church in New London that god chose to strike down. It was a former Congregational Church, but they sold the historic structure to the Engaging Heaven Ministries back in 2015 for $250,000.00. We learn today that the City of New London has put a $244,646.00 lien on […]

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There’s something happening here (maybe)

Monday, October 16, 2023

What it is, ain’t exactly clear, but let me go on. I’m the treasurer for our local town committee, and recently our town chair asked me to prepare spreadsheets to tally the results on election night. She sent me a ballot containing the names of each candidate running for each office. These are local elections, […]

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Politics is a funny business

Sunday, February 21, 2021

My wife and I get three newspapers every morning, the execrable New London Day, which I rarely read, the New York Times, because I need my dose of Paul Krugman, and the Boston Globe. As a result I’m somewhat up on Massachusetts politics. The tendency of the folks in Massachusetts to elect Republican governors has […]

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Republicans lament: no fair calling us Republicans

Saturday, January 23, 2021

Pity the poor blogger, when fate deals him a hand that he cannot win. This article in the New London Day presents a challenge that requires a Mark Twain, or, at the very least, a Driftglass to come up with just the right nouns, verbs and especially adjectives to properly mock the Republicans of the […]

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John Scott knows the playbook

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

This morning’s New London Day has an article about local Republicans, many of whom are blaming Antifa for the insurrection on the 6th. John Scott, chair or the Groton Republicans, whose name has frequently appeared on this blog, was among those quoted. In a Jan. 6 Facebook post, John Scott, the Groton RTC chairman, wrote, […]

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John Scott: Trump voters aren’t racists, they just vote for one

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Today, the New London Day, exercising its usual bad judgment, gave front page prominence to this article, in which we are told that an outraged John Scott, speaking out in his role as the chair of the Groton Republican Town Committee (now dominated by right wing loonies), has demanded the resignation of Democratic Town Councilor […]

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A helpful writing tip to a man in blue

Sunday, July 26, 2020

This morning’s New London Day has an article about two complaints filed by Groton Town Council candidates against the police last year. One Republican and one Democrat, so this is an instance in which both sides do it. I won’t say much about the substance of the Republican’s complaint, though his observation that: “If you […]

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