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Monthly Archives: October 2007

He can’t define torture, and doesn’t know it when he sees it

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Several Senators are now saying their vote on Mukasey depends on whether he acknowledges that waterboarding is torture. Isn’t it a bit late for that. If he admits it now, it’s only under pressure, so it’s completely meaningless. I don’t know anything about the man. Maybe he was honorable in his former life. But he’s […]

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Rock ‘N’ Roll

Thursday, October 25, 2007

A first here at CtBlue: a guest writer. I mentioned last week that my family went to see Tom Stoppard’s new (to the U.S.) play, Rock ‘N’ Roll, which is actually still in previews here after a run in London. My brother in law, Eric von Dorster, went with us and we prevailed upon him […]

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If you want respect from Democrats, become a Republican

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Does anything show the spinelessness and political stupidity of the Democrats more than the telecom immunity bill? This has almost nothing to do with helping the telecoms, though it will surely do that. Bush doesn’t care about anyone but his own crime organization. Other criminals normally have to take care of themselves. No, Bush wants […]

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Coup coming in Ecuador

Thursday, October 25, 2007

This situation will bear watching : Ecuador’s leftist President Rafael Correa said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the U.S.wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador’s Pacific coast.Correa has refused to renew Washington’s lease on the Manta air base, set to expire in 2009. U.S. officials say it […]

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Back from the Shadows, yet again

Thursday, October 25, 2007

If you have tried to access this site in the last two days you were probably unsuccessful. This may have raised hopes in your breast that I would no longer be inflicting my ravings on an already beleaguered world. Alas, I must dash your hopes. The problem was not with me, but with the server, […]

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I never lost faith-well, hardly ever

Monday, October 22, 2007

Now that the Red Sox have won the pennant, I just want to say that despite what I may have said in the past, which might have led some to believe the contrary, I never for a moment lost faith in them. I may have said I expected them to fold, I may even have […]

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Bush’s Imperial Ambitions-there from the start

Monday, October 22, 2007

Atrios notes that this article in the American Prospect by John Judis represents a breakthrough of sorts-a recognition by a beltway media type that Bush’s foreign policy is essentially imperialistic. It’s well worth a read, since it summarizes well the arguments for that characterization and the reasons why imperialism is a failed strategy in foreign […]

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Yet another strained baseball metaphor

Sunday, October 21, 2007

The New York Times asks: Are the Red Sox Ready to Become the New Yankees?“. In a bit of sports writing that sounds, in places, like those articles we see so often in which Republicans like David Brooks give “well meant” advice to Democrats, William Rhoden of the Times warns of the dangers to the […]

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Off to NY

Friday, October 19, 2007

We’ve got a busy weekend ahead, so most likely I won’t be inflicting anything on the net for a while. Tomorrow we’re going to the Big Apple to see a preview of Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘N’ Roll and Sunday we’re going to a Courtney Fund Raiser in Essex. I am still disappointed with Joe over […]

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Friday Night music-Jimi Hendrix

Friday, October 19, 2007

Gotta go with the classic-Purple Haze. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF0o4xCqPgU[/youtube]

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