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Daily Archives: June 11th, 2007

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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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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