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Monthly Archives: December 2007

Backlogs at social security

Monday, December 10, 2007

Every once in a while I get to write about something I actually know about, and today is one of those rare days. This morning’s Times reports on the growing backlog of Social Security Disability cases. (The article was reprinted in the Day). In terms of the time I spend on my legal cases, 50% […]

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Annals of Etymology

Monday, December 10, 2007

I just hope to [insert agnostic’s analogue of God here] that I used the word “etymology” correctly above. Here I toil away, sometimes posting three or four political posts a day with nary a comment, and I use a word wrong and I get in the middle of two English majors discussing the meaning, spelling […]

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Imagine

Saturday, December 8, 2007

John Lennon, 1940 to 1980. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7_6Vzj7Rng[/youtube]

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Hung by their own petard

Saturday, December 8, 2007

One of the things about the pesky Constitution is that, no matter how much one warps one part of it, some other part seems to get in the way of those who seek to pervert it. Case in point: The religious groups that wanted to use public fora to display their creches had to accept […]

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Sheldon Whitehouse speaks out on Bush criminality

Friday, December 7, 2007

Rhode Island traded a mediocrity for a first rate Senator when it threw out Lincoln Chafee last year. Senator Whitehouse scores the Bush criminal enterprise in a Senate speech. (Full story here). Let’s start with number one. Bear in mind that the so-called Protect America Act that was stampeded through this great body in August […]

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A Mormon story

Friday, December 7, 2007

Since Mormons are in the news lately, I share herewith a story about my own pilgrimage to the Mormon Tabernacle back in 1971. The school year ended early as a result of the post Cambodian invasion student strikes. Four Bowdoin students, including me, decided to take the archetypal road trip, so we took off in an […]

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JFK versus Willard Romney

Friday, December 7, 2007

There have been a number of comparisons between Willard Romney’s speech yesterday and John Kennedy’s speech in 1960 to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association. It really boils down to this: JFK was trying to extinguish the flames of religious bigotry, Romney was trying to fan the flames while changing the direction of the wind.   […]

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Pants on fire

Thursday, December 6, 2007

A short course from TPM on NIE lies [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=iMzJRMmQ7WM[/youtube] That was yesterday. Today, poor Dana tries to explain it all: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBDTb-PvLsk[/youtube]

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Bad Behavior redux (briefly)

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Looks like my problems yesterday were not unique. Susie at Suburban Guerilla was also banned from her own site: Apparently every IP on earth has been flagged by Bad Behavior as a spam IP address, so nobody, including Susie, has been able to create posts or make comments. I just visited the Bad Behavior site, […]

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A political forecast

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Let me be the first to predict that Mike Huckabee will not suffer as much from freeing a dangerous rapist who went on to murder two women than will Giuliani for using New York taxpayer dollars on maintaining his mistress.Most of the press is still in the first stages of love with Huckabee as the […]

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