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Category Archives: Good News

Everything is the opposite of what it is, isn’t it?

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Only the American media can turn good news into bad, and it comes as no surprise that in doing so they are carrying water for Republicans. The CBO says that as a result of the Affordable Care Act, some ordinary Americans will have the opportunity to work less and still have health insurance, to the […]

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You can always judge a person by the company they keep

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

I am among those who believe Chris Christie is now toast, so, as my good news post of the week, I pass on for your consideration a few thoughts about what we may have avoided. Via naked capitalism, I came across this article, which gives us chapter and verse on the Christie threat. We are […]

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Another major surprise: Government works!

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

I'm currently making my way through Doris Kearns Goodwin's latest, The Bully Pulpit, a sort of dual political biography of Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Without getting explicit, she's making a lot of points about our current situation. Among other things, she claims, and I think I agree, that one of Teddy's greatest accomplishments […]

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Good News, Local Edition

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

The Groton Open Spaces Association has, over the years, been responsible for preserving a vast amount of open space here in Groton. I am especially indebted to the Association, as I live a short walk away from Haley Farm State Park, which would have become a site for tract housing had it not been for […]

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Zero brain policies being abandoned

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Just to show I keep my promises, I now present yet another installment of good news. The New York Times reports that school boards across the nation are re-thinking their zero tolerance policies. “Zero tolerance” is another way of saying that the adopting school boards have abandoned their obligation to use considered judgment in matters […]

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Good news for the week

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Each of our political parties is under attack. The Republicans are besieged by ever growing numbers of voters of all hues, but most frighteningly, for them, those of a brownish hue. They have responded to the attack in a most simple and direct fashion: by depriving those voters of the right to vote. They have […]

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It’s about time!

Thursday, November 21, 2013

At long last, the Democrats in the Senate have ended the filibuster abuse by the Republicans. This is truly good news, making it easy to meet my weekly obligation to recount such things, and this time I doubt that I'll be limning the good news with cynicism, though first by way of aside: “Shame on […]

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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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More Good News

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Our local paper, The New London Day is really not a bad rag, but the editors there seem to be obsessed with placating a small but vocal number of local right wingers, who continually accuse it of bias, no matter how much it bends over backward to appease them. This recently led me to pen […]

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If the election were held today, and if wishes were horses

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

It occurs to me that it's been a while since I posted some good news, which I obligated myself to do weekly awhile back. It seems I just can't stop slipping into my pessimistic mode. So here's some good news, though it has to be taken with a pillar of salt. If the election were […]

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