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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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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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