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Sometimes simple makes sense

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

An interesting post at Hullabaloo. Digby links to a commentary arguing that the unfortunate number of glitches affecting the Obamacare website are proof of, rather than proof against, the superiority of classic twentieth century liberalism over the weird mix of federal government, state governments, and rent-seekers that it has become trendy to think deliver services […]

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Words fail me

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

It's been a while since I've posted; primarily, it's true, because I've been away, but at least secondarily because-I admit it, I'm incapable of performing my job as a blogger. I could cheat, of course, and use a Thesaurus, but absent that expedient, I'm simply not up to the task. I can't come up with […]

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Musings from the Green Mountain State

Sunday, August 4, 2013

First off, an apology to any miserable creature out there who needs a daily fix of CTBlue, should any such creature there be. Friday we made our annual pilgrimage to the beautiful state of Vermont, and blogging will be sparse, sporadic and, perhaps, non-political for the duration of our vacation. Speaking of blogging, I have […]

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No downer news, first edition

Friday, July 19, 2013

So, as promised, today’s blogging will all be about good things. My picks might be quirky, and you might argue that they don’t qualify as news in some cases, but this is my blog and I get to set the rules. Anyway, first up is good news of the heartwarming variety, which you will have […]

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A promise

Thursday, July 18, 2013

I’m informed by a regular reader (yes, I have some) that this blog is too depressing lately, a charge to which I plead guilty. There are many reasons for this, chief among them being the fact that it looks like this time we really are on the Eve of Destruction (you aging hippies know what […]

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A Thought Experiment

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Digby notes that at least one protestor, an asshole openly carrying a gun in order to assert his “second amendment rights” and his rights under a crazy open carry law, gets an inordinate amount of respect from the cops that confront him . I’ve seen the video before, but if you haven’t, you can view […]

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My fashion sense appreciated

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

We all get emails and all of us get spam, which may be a good thing, as it might make it harder for the NSA to get at the interesting stuff. And then there’s the stuff that’s betwixt and between. I mean I really hoped, as I began reading a recent email, that I had […]

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Go Bears! (We’re Number 1!)

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Many of my readers may not instantly realize who the Bears might be. Some local readers may think I refer to a Stonington High athletic team, and some may think I’m referring to the denizens of Jellystone Park. But the cognizanti will know that I can only be referring to Bowdoin College (and bears of […]

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Something completely different

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Sometimes, a bloggers life is not a happy one. On those days, becoming more frequent of late, that I have trouble bestirring myself to comment on the sad state of the world, I feel a vague sense of guilt, as if I have some obligation to satisfy the reading requirements of what is a largely […]

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Report card and predictions

Monday, December 31, 2012

Well, this is going to be an extended post. At first, I thought of splitting it in two, but it’s really one subject, and really, if you have nothing better to do on New Year’s Eve than to read this (as I have nothing better to do than to write it), then you probably need […]

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