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Category Archives: Ramblings

A surprising fact

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day, and as all the world knows, motherhood, along with baseball and apple pie, is a peculiarly American value. For reasons that are unclear, the rest of the world is apparently hostile to motherhood, particularly, as it turns out, the Italians, who are producing fewer mothers than any other country on earth, […]

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Best comment ever?

Friday, April 2, 2010

Yesterday, for reasons both too complicated and boring to explain, one of my posts, without my knowledge, ended up being posted twice. The subject of the post was Obama’s repetition on the energy front of the search for “bi-partisanship” that worked out so well (snark) on the health care front. So the post was repetitive […]

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Hey, what happened to my tax increase?

Sunday, March 28, 2010

I spent most of my day at the keyboard, punching numbers into Turbo Tax. Last year we ended up paying both state and federal, so my wife and I increased our withholding, by about enough where we figured we would get a modest refund. Well, it’s higher than we thought, thanks in part to Obama […]

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The Downside of Blogging

Thursday, March 18, 2010

I just spent about an hour writing a post which started out as a brilliant idea, but slowly ripened, or should I say decayed, into a piece of crap. Into the draft heap it went, probably never to be resurrected. Political punditry is just no fun these days. I am hoping that the eventual passage […]

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Easy for you to say

Friday, February 12, 2010

As least several times a week I get spam comments, which I must consign to perdition. I don’t know how they are generated, whether by live person or by computer. I normally just delete them, but this one I have to promote, since it appears, to the best of my ability to understand it, to […]

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A silver lining?

Monday, January 25, 2010

Considering the Supreme court’s decision equating corporate spending to free speech, and considering the court’s holding that a corporation is a legal person in the eyes of the law, bearing in mind Justice Roberts corporate bias and his desire to strike down laws regulating corporations, including those regulating corporate mergers, remembering that people have other […]

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Happy New Year and some resolutions

Thursday, December 31, 2009

I have taken the period between Christmas and New Years off from my legal labors, at least I took off from the office, though I put in a few hours a day of legal work. I have discovered anew that age old truth-the more time you have to do things, the less you do. But […]

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A question of semantics

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Max Baucus has a girlfriend. John Ensign has a mistress. This engendered some lively discussion around our breakfast table this morning. I took the position that the usages are correct. A mistress, to my way of thinking, is the paramour of a married man. “Married” in the sense that the other person in that marriage […]

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Happy Thanksgiving

Thursday, November 26, 2009

I’m tempted to say that anyone who is reading blogs on Thanksgiving should be ashamed of him/herself. This is my favorite holiday, since it has resisted all attempts to commercialize it, unless you count the retailers opening on this sacred day to steal a March on Christmas. This year we decided to have an as […]

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Another Vermont mystery.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Just about every summer my wife and I make a point of going to Pawlet Vermont, to see whose picture adorns the home of an artist that lives by the dam there. Judging by my pictures, we didn’t make it last year, so I don’t know who was up there, but I was betting Barack […]

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