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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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More from the great state of Vermont

Friday, August 14, 2009

I am once again writing from the Long Trail Brewery, which features great beer and free Wi-Fi. I am blissfully unaware of everything going on in the wide world, with the single exception of the fact that there is a “death panel” debate going on, which is so stupid that I confess I lack the […]

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Horticultural Question

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

A few weeks ago I posted a picture of a stunned bird, and was surprised to find that the post attracted comments from people who quite obviously knew what they were talking about. The probable cause of the little bird’s problem, as well as its species, was quickly identified. So, here’s another challenge. We were […]

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In which I attempt literary criticism

Sunday, August 2, 2009

With some trepidation, I am about to venture beyond the political pastures to which I have largely confined myself, and venture into literary criticism. I am, after all, as well suited for punditry in the former area as I am in the latter. I leave it to the reader to decide the degree of suitedness. […]

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Internet mysteries

Friday, July 24, 2009

As any regular reader of this blog knows, the average number of comments per post is zero. Recently, I posted a picture of a dazed bird, and wondered if anyone could explain the phenomenon. I got three comments (I’m not including one I put up to thank the first commenter for the helpful information) which, […]

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Bird Tale

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Maybe there’s someone out there who can explain this. As I mentioned a few days ago, we spent the weekend in Vermont. Yesterday morning, I went out onto the deck of the house where we were staying and there was this little bird, sitting on the deck, who didn’t move a muscle when I approached. […]

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