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Monthly Archives: June 2007

Girding for (possible) battle

Monday, June 11, 2007

I have remarked before that the Town of Groton, where I reside, has a governmental system quite a bit more complex than that outlined in the Constitution of the United States. We have a Town Manager, a Town Council, a Representative Town Meeting, and a Board of Education, not to mention seven fire districts, the […]

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A short poem

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Senator Andy Maynard shared this with me yesterday at the Groton Federation of Democratic Women’s fundraiser, and I’m passing it along. Does this sound like anyone you know: A Dead Statesman I could not dig, I dared not rob and so I lied to please the mob Now all my lies are proved untrue and […]

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Groton Federation of Democratic Women event

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Yesterday the Groton Federation of Democratic Women, over which my wife presides, hosted a “tea”. The object was to raise money, which they did, to as great an extent as we can ever do in Groton. The usual suspects were there, including State Comptroller Nancy Wyman and Attorney General Dick Blumenthal. The event took place […]

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Blackwater sues families of dead mercenaries

Saturday, June 9, 2007

Talk about ambivalence. Blackwater has sued the families of the mercenaries (I try to keep this a no-euphemism zone) killed in Fallujah in what may be the ultimate SLAPP suit : Blackwater has now lifted this atrocity to a whole new level by going on the offensive and suing the families for $10 million. The […]

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People with scruples need not apply

Saturday, June 9, 2007

Does there come a point when death qualification deprives a defendant of a jury of his or her peers. In Today’s Times we learn that 60% of the people in this country may now be effectively disqualified from sitting on death penalty juries. All a prosecuter has to do to disqualify someone with the slightest […]

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A confession of error

Thursday, June 7, 2007

I owe Mark Colella an apology. Colella, as you probably recall, is the guy that Lou Deluca accused of beating his granddaughter. I said something in a post yesterday about Deluca sending two thugs to beat up one thug, thus implicitly buying Deluca’s story that Colella really was beating his wife. I don’t know what […]

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Breaking away

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

The Vermont Secession movement is alive and well. I think it’s terribly selfish of them to not invite the rest of New England along. We could detach Fairfield County if they wanted, so our sole Republican Congressperson would feel more at home. The folks in Vermont have it right: “The argument for secession is that […]

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Consequences, or the lack thereof

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

It’s not that I disagree with the Day’s call for Lou Deluca to resign. I just find it hard to understand why our crusading local newspaper finds it so easy to see that consensual blowjobs or mafia hits merit removal from office, while premeditated wars of choice apparently don’t. What kind of country do we […]

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A modest suggestion from Tbogg

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Tbogg politely discusses the contributions of Bill Kristol and his ilk, Libby apologists all, to the national discourse. His conclusion sums it up: If there was a shred of decency or an ounce of courage in any one of them, take your pick, they would each be making an appointment with Mr. Heavy Rope and […]

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They write letters

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

I’ve been spending a little quality time reading the Libby Letters. You can download the full text here at the Smoking Gun, where they’ve also posted them in order of despicableness, starting with Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger, and Paul Wolfowitz and John Bolton. With friends like those… I loved Wolfowitz’s opening: I am currently serving, […]

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