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Obvious Day

Monday, September 22, 2014

Today, a few observations on the obvious. First, watch this relatively short video.  [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKCvf8E7V1g&w=560&h=315] At Buzzflash they’re reporting that the folks at TED have pulled this video off their site on the grounds that his remarks were “too politically controversial”. Now, the fact is that any reasonably informed person watching this video would be convinced, because there’s […]

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A Labor Day Lament

Sunday, August 31, 2014

Labor Day approaches, a day to honor the working person, who, nowadays, increasingly labors for the sheer emotional satisfaction work can bring, considering that the fruits of his or her labor increasingly go to the capitalist or the CEO. And surely labor can be its own reward, but when, increasingly, one's labor becomes more and […]

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An artist with local roots

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

If you have a copy of this morning's Times, take a gander at the front page, where you'll see a picture of a picture of outgoing (finally) Mayor Bloomberg., the depicted picture painted by one Jon R. Friedman. The name struck a chord with my wife and me, and a little googling led us to […]

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Grade inflation at Harvard

Thursday, December 5, 2013

The Boston Globe reports: Harvard College is facing a new round of disapproval, and even ridicule, from some educators following news that the most common grade awarded is an A, more than a decade after professors pledged to combat grade inflation. Critics say that making top grades the norm cheapens the hard work of the […]

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What Price Victory?

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Now that the World Series has come to an end, regular blogging will be resuming at this location. We all have our priorities. Now, as a long time Red Sox fan I feel I can wallow in this win for a while, and even pronounce this post my obligatory, sometimes weekly dose of good news. […]

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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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