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Thursday, September 25, 2025

There was a time, many moons ago, when I posted to this blog on a daily basis. Back then, we thought things were going wrong, but within limits that could be rectified. You know, George Bush was an idiot,but we could look forward to replacing him with someone good, and we actually did, and things […]

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Random rant

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

I’ve been writing this blog for more than 20 years now. In the beginning it was easy, because even though there were terrible things going on at times, there was still some grounds for optimism. Times have changed, and not only are current events scary and depressing, the points to be made are so obvious […]

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What about Connecticut!

Saturday, January 11, 2025

A Canadian MP has graciously offered to take several states off of Donald Trump’s hands, pointing out that it would relieve the Orange Felon of states that vote rationally. Well, she said states that vote Democratic, but it’s pretty much the same thing. She offered to take California, Oregon, and Washington, and then upped the […]

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Yet another rant

Saturday, April 20, 2024

Sometimes I think elected Democrats are subjected to some sort of brain damage on their way to assuming office. This article at the New London Day sort of set me off: As Connecticut municipalities bear the financial load of early voting, legislative leaders and state officials are split over whether the state should help fund […]

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Rant of the Day

Friday, April 19, 2024

I don’t have a television, and even if I did I doubt that I’d spend much time watching the television “news” shows, but I think my general impression is correct. The more of a whackjob you are as a Congressperson, the more chance you have of getting yourself on television. Latest example I’ve run across […]

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One law for me, another for thee

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

This story (more here and here) hasn’t gotten much mainstream attention, so far as I know, but it presages a monumental change in the law. There will soon be, if there not already is, one set of laws for the right and another for the left, one set of laws for right wing “Christians” and […]

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Am I being nit picky?

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Very well then I’m being nit picky. (For those who don’t get the reference, I’m riffing off Walt Whitman) To get back to the nits. Crooks and Liars has a post up in which they report on an interview with Nancy Pelosi in which she ably excoriates the stable genius for his latest spewings about […]

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Biden does it again

Friday, April 5, 2024

It’s my understanding that there were two earthquakes today, both in the New Jersey area, and if the folks over at the Palmer Report are correct, the center of one was quite close to one of Trump’s golf courses. I’m hoping that I’m the first to point out where responsibility lies, though for all I […]

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Looking back on a horrible no good year!

Monday, January 1, 2024

I’m sitting here on the First of January, having spent yet another New Years Eve doing nothing, and remembering what a horrible year I had last year, all because, as they’ll tell you on Fox, of Joe Biden, who is personally responsible for anything that goes wrong. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about […]

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Today’s rant

Saturday, November 4, 2023

I know this is fairly trivial, but I’m having trouble containing my astonishment, so here goes. I’m no longer practicing law, but I do remember how things worked, and I still can’t get over the fact that Ivanka Trump actually found a lawyer willing to argue that she shouldn’t have to obey a subpoena because […]

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