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Category Archives: Ramblings

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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The Heritage Foundation does not believe in the magic of the market

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

The Heritage Foundation has issued a report which concludes, in the words of the Laura Clawson at the Daily Kos, that public school teachers are overpaid and stupid. Her analysis stands on its own, but I can’t resist adding another observation. If one applies the free market principles that the Heritage Foundation always claims to […]

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The Order of the Universe has been restored

Friday, September 23, 2011

The Red Sox are blowing another season. I feel like I’m 28 years old again.

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Book review

Sunday, August 21, 2011

We have returned from Vermont, and it is therefore incumbent upon me to return to this blog, though I’m sure there are many that would urge me to prolong my literary silence of the past two weeks. But, alas, it cannot be. I am still blissfully ignorant of recent events, except I’m aware that in […]

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Wildlife sighting

Sunday, July 17, 2011

While putting the final touches on my previous post (which I was writing out on my patio) what should come walking through my yard but a coyote. Unfortunately, by the time I was able to get the camera on my Ipad going, he had skedaddled over the road and into a neighbor’s yard, so no […]

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Batting .250

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

I’ve read at least 25 of them. A few I think I read in college, but can’t remember for sure, so I’m not counting them. Of course these lists are pretty subjective.

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