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Monthly Archives: June 2007

The Yes Men Strike

Friday, June 15, 2007

This is cool: “Without oil, at least four billion people would starve. This spiral of trouble would make the oil infrastructure utterly useless” – unless their bodies could be turned into fuel. That was the satirical message delivered by two corporate ethics activists to the Gas and Oil Exposition 2007 in Calgary, Alberta. The activists, […]

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Intended consequences

Friday, June 15, 2007

What a surprise. We’ve all heard of the law of unintended consequences, but what about all of the obvious consequences of stupid policy, such as the possibility that the United States, with ample Democratic support (see, e.g., here ) , will try to replace carbon based fuels with biofuels, which may themselves do little to […]

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Laws or men?

Friday, June 15, 2007

Now that Libby has been sent to jail by Judge Walton, we will learn whether we are a government of laws and not of men. I’m not talking about a possible pardon, which would only confirm what we all know: that Bush and his gang are a bunch of petty criminals. Libby will ask the […]

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Introducing a new product: the sequel

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Those who were paying attention were aware quite early in 2002 that some in the Bush Administration were advocating war with Iraq. I remember reading about it early on. It took me a long time to fully comprehend that the people advocating war were in control, and that they would eventually get their way. At […]

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Relaxing in Maine

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

We left Connecticut early this morning, with the temperature at 60 degrees. The temperature fell as we headed north. It’s been cold and cloudy. When we got here we took a walk to the beach, and on the way we came across a reminder of home: Not the clearest picture, but yes that’s a Joe […]

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The Republican brand of sympathy

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

I’m writing once again from the great State of Maine, where I was delighted to find that the place my sister is renting has wireless internet, so I won’t have to be visiting the good Sister Mary Catherine after all. Before I left this morning, I had a chance to briefly scan the Courant, and […]

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Random thoughts (if they can be so dignified)

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Where did the evening go? It’s quarter to ten, and this is the first opportunity I’ve had to write anything. There will be no rhyme, reason, or coherent structure to this. I had my interview for the Groton Charter Revision Commission tonight. I expected a grilling, but in fact the council had no questions. I […]

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Krugman on authenticty

Monday, June 11, 2007

Great column by Paul Krugman today. I can’t help but think that his colleague, the ever shallow Maureen Dowd, is one of his unnamed targets: Rich liberals who claim they’ll help America’s less fortunate are phonies. Let me give you one example — a Democrat who said he’d work on behalf of workers and the […]

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Blogging matters

Monday, June 11, 2007

One of the features of this new website and the WordPress software I use is that every comment someone posts is also sent to me via email. This allows me to more easily monitor the comments, get rid of spam and, should I choose, delete a particularly offensive comment. The system does have it’s downside […]

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Joe finds a filibuster he can support

Monday, June 11, 2007

Back when Lieberman was trying hard to pretend to be a Democrat he had this to say about filibusters: As you know, I did vote for cloture on Judge Alito’s nomination. As part of my agreement with the Gang of 14 I agreed to filibuster only in extraordinary circumstances. Though I strongly opposed Judge Alito’s […]

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