CT Blue

Introduction. I’ve been working on this post off and on for a while now. It’s not really ready for prime time, but I decided to put it up in its immature state because the debt ceiling charade we’ve just witnessed demonstrates very conclusively that I’m right, and I want to appear somewhat prescient. Also, I’m […]

When I first read this article in the Times, it brought to mind Anatole France’s observation that “[t]he law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.” Charlie Engle (who, though not exactly poor, was definitely not rich) […]

Am I unreasonable? Don’t answer that. Rather, consider this one case. My wife and I are up here in Ogunquit, Maine, having dropped a pretty penny to stay at a glorified motel with beachfront rooms. Here, as proof, is a picture of the sun rising over the Atlantic, this very morning, taken from right in […]

For a variety of reasons I’ve had occasion recently to write a lot about the Acorn situation, both here and in a letter I recently wrote to the Day, though I really think the whole thing is sort of trivial and another right wing tempest in a teapot. Still, the recent “exposé” raise some interesting […]

My friend Bob Roth recently wrote about the fear that the teabaggers, et. al represent the beginnings of a nascent fascist movement, while Austin Cline over at Jesus General points out that the very people who are hurling this epithet at others are using the tactics that fascist movements historically use. It’s not an unreasonable […]