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Category Archives: Rants

Why we need high speed rail

Sunday, June 28, 2009

I just got back from Maine, where we had a little mini-reunion of the guys to whom I was closest in college. We had a great time, once we got there. But. The most logical route from here to Maine is up 395 in Connecticut, 290 to 495 in Massachusetts, then up 95 through New […]

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Sunday Book Review

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Be warned. This is long and I’m not sure it’s worth the reading, but I enjoyed writing it, so what the heck. Most of the books I read concern events that happened a long long time ago, if not far away. Thus, they are not really appropriate for comment on this blog. The book I […]

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Curmudgeonly Etymology

Thursday, January 15, 2009

I have been working lately on something that’s taking up a good deal of my time. Whether it will bear fruit or not, I don’t know, but I am left with little time to post, and less time to think. So I am going to mount a hobby horse that I have been riding for […]

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Nice rant

Friday, August 8, 2008

The following rant (and I don’t use that word pejoratively, good rants are valuable things) was passed on to me by a correspondent, and I eventually got permission from the author (who shall remain unnamed) to reprint it. I thought it was good. I’ve modified it slightly by adding some introductory words and embedding the […]

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Mind Boggling

Friday, March 28, 2008

According to MSNBC the nations investment banks are borrowing an average of 32.9 billion dollars a day from the Fed. I think even nowadays that’s a lot of money. The total proposed budget for the state of Connecticut for the fiscal year 2009 is about 18.4 billions, which means that the banks are borrowing a […]

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Free John Stewart!

Saturday, March 15, 2008

I have mentioned before that I watch very little TV. I tape the Daily Show and Colbert on my computer, edit out the commercials, and my wife and I watch it. That’s pretty much the extent of our TV viewing. Since I don’t watch the commercials I guess I have no standing to complain, but […]

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A Tale of Two Theatres (and a movie)

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Last night my wife and I, and another couple, decided to go to Pawcatuck to the corporate owned Regal Cinema Stonington 10 Cinemas to see Atonement. Yes, that’s right, there are 10 theatres. If we assume, conservatively, that each can hold 200 people, that means that at any given time there could be quite a […]

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