CT Blue

So Stephen Breyer is leaving. Perhaps he finally realized that his belief in an “above all that” Supreme Court was a fantasy. I understand Biden intends to pick a black woman as the next justice, which is fine, but there’s another qualification that’s equally urgent. She should be young, say in her early forties. We […]

I’ve mentioned before that my wife and I helped found a chapter of Drinking Liberally which has (hopefully) survived to this day, as we are very much hoping to leave the confines of Zoom and meet in person soon, and actually drink, albeit not all that liberally. One of the regulars has been faithfully attending […]

Toward the end of last year I posted my predictions about the coming year. Those that can be tested against reality have stood up fairly well, though I obviously did not predict the plague, and my prediction about Justice Ginsburg was negated by her death. But right now I’m thinking about this part of the […]

I was not a Biden fan during primary season, and I continue to believe that several of the other candidates would make better presidents than him, inasmuch as I think they are more aware of what this country needs to recover from not just four years of fascism, but years and years of Republican misrule, […]

It’s not hard to detect this pattern. When Justice Thurgood Marshall, a giant of the civil rights movement died, the Republicans went out and found themselves a black person who could be counted on to help undo all of his achievements. They found him in Clarence Thomas. Now, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died. She was […]