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Category Archives: Ramblings

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

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 […]

The Order of the Universe has been restored

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

Book review

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 […]

Wildlife sighting

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 […]

Batting .250

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.

Science Friday

I just have to pass this along, from Pharyngula: A rather bizarre study carried out by German researchers suggests that staring at women’s breasts is good for men’s health and increases their life expectancy. According to Dr. Karen Weatherby, a gerontologist and author of the study, gawking at women’s breasts is a healthy practice, almost […]

Two crystal balls

The following post has a bit of history to it. A person quite near and dear to me has suggested that I have, of late, become somewhat negative in my attitude toward just about everything. I insist that I am merely stating the facts and responding to reality, but she insists that I am far […]

Bad Blogger!

That’s as in, or similar to, “bad dog!”, for I have been very bad indeed. I did not watch the Blumenthal debate. I did not watch the Malloy debate. A Bad Blogger, indeed. I actually have an excuse for part of the Blumenthal debate. I watched the first several minutes and couldn’t take it anymore. […]

Greetings from Vermont

Just keeping my hand in here. While the folks at home are worrying about the primary, we’ve put all that behind us. I’m writing this using WordPress for the Ipad, which is quite primitive. I’ve inserted three pictures (the maximum allowed) but I have no way of previewing to see how they look. Anyway, we’re […]

My week so far

There has been very little written from this quarter lately, and that rather rambling, because I have been-not to put too fine a point on it-sick. This is a strange set of affairs for me, because I am so rarely ill that I can’t really recognize the condition. Typically I doubt my own motives-am I […]