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A mystery solved

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Four years ago Al Franken won a Senate seat after a six month court battle. One of the more bizarre sidelights to the battle was the revelation that someone had voted for the “lizard people”. Here’s the ballot: At the time I had no idea what the motivation for this was, and I don’t believe […]

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Power back on

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Came back a few hours ago. We’re astounded, as we’re normally pretty much last in getting our power back, being on one of the most rural roads in Groton. However, for us personally, it could disappear in a minute, as a fallen tree limb is leaning against the wires running into our house. But right […]

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Book Review

Sunday, October 14, 2012

At the moment I’m rereading the Hitchhiker’s Guide series, sandwiching each silly installment between works of non-fiction. This post is about the latest slice of, shall we say, literary meat between the tasty bread baked by Douglas Adams. Despite the title, this is not really a book review, as I’ll content myself to pointing to […]

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Required Reading

Sunday, August 26, 2012

I just finished reading Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz's The Price of Inequality. It really should be required reading for everyone, but at least for every Democratic politician, starting with the guy living on Pennsylvania Avenue. Oddly enough, there's nothing in the book that any progressive minded individual wouldn't know, but it's packaged persuasively […]

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Vermont Ramblings

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Pleasant times here in Vermont, blessedly removed from almost any exposure to what is happening out there in the world, though I do get the impression that the richest man to ever run for president, a guy who quite probably has paid taxes at a lower rate than I, has decided to attack the poorest […]

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Back from the wet North

Monday, June 4, 2012

I haven’t blogged for a few days, as my wife and I were up in Maine at my XXth College reunion. There is no need to go into further numerical details here, though it is safe to say that I am, to put it kindly, on the brink of geezerdom, or perhaps, already in the […]

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Friday Night-No Music

Friday, March 23, 2012

Just got back from the JJB dinner, and my mind is not working well enough to come up with anything worth putting up. Next week all should be back to normal.   Instead I’ll content myself with putting up a picture of the Drinking Liberally contingent and add that the featured speaker, Maryland governor O’Malley […]

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Very warm out there

Thursday, March 22, 2012

I had to go to court in Hartford this afternoon. When I left the thermometer in my car read 86 degrees. It was very pleasant, but extremely unnatural. I’m assuming the folks on Fox and Friends will be acknowledging that an anomalous warm day proves Al Gore was right.

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Reflections on 2012

Monday, January 2, 2012

  After much (well, some) reflection I’ve decided not to write a list of predictions this year, at least not like I did last year. I could easily just re-print my predictions from last year, except the one about the iPad, which I’d have to change from iPad 2 to iPad 3. Sure, that would […]

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Report card

Monday, December 26, 2011

If one aspires to be a pundit, one should, in my own humble opinion, be prepared to be judged. Unlike David Brooks or Tom Friedman, I feel it my duty to revisit my prognostications, to see how they hold up in the light of reality. Last year, I made some predictions about the coming year, […]

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