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Monthly Archives: February 2008

McCain and Bloomberg: centrists both, if you disregard their positions on the issues

Saturday, February 9, 2008

I am horribly confused. Michael Bloomberg’s fantasy of running for president as a “centrist” candidate has officially foundered, according to Chuck Hagel, now that John McCain has locked up the Republican nomination. Why? Well, apparently, according to the Times, Bloomberg is a moderate and a centrist, and so is McCain. These adjectives, in McCain’s case, […]

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Friday Night Music: Jimmy Cliff

Friday, February 8, 2008

Many Rivers to Cross. The group singing with him is The Sounds of Blackness. This one starts a bit slow, so you have to be patient. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HWAIWsP5OM[/youtube]

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Drinking Liberally: A report

Friday, February 8, 2008

Our second Drinking Liberally went well last night. It was held at the Bulkeley House in New London, in the “Ice House”, which we liberals had all to ourselves. A few pictures, starting with a look at the facilities prior to the start of the festivities: A couple of crowd shots: A not so crowded […]

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Outrage of the week

Friday, February 8, 2008

This week the Attorney General of the United States declared that the law does not apply to members of the executive branch. He did it twice. First he told the Judiciary Committee that torture is legal as long as the Justice Department clears it in advance. By extension, anything is legal as long as the […]

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Something happening here

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

It has been much remarked in the blogosphere, though not so much in the mainstream media, that turnout among Democrats has been extra high this year. A case in point is our fair town of Groton, where the votes cast for the top candidates are as follows. (All figures courtesy of the Courant, Dems here, […]

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The Day Loves them some McCain

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

You had to go beneath the fold of this morning’s Day to see a mention of a Democrat. The headline was all Rs, and the meanest, biggest, bestest R of them all was big John McCain, the maverick Republican from Arizona.Y ou know, he’s such a maverick that he complains a little before doing what […]

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Reminder: Drinking Liberally Thursday night

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Light blogging tonight. I am watching/listening to the returns on Brave New Films, where they do the heavy lifting of watching CNN for me, report the results, and reinforce all my preconceptions. What more could you ask? Now’s a good time to remind everyone that Thursday night is the second meeting of the Southeastern Connecticut […]

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Pictures from the Obama rally

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Good Morning, Democrats. Time to be the Deciders. A timely reminder in this morning’s comics: Guess which party’s primary they’re voting in? Actually, the main point of this hurried post is to put up some pictures of the Obama rally that Betsy Moukawsher sent me last night. Betsy was up close, but to the rear.

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The pundit speaks

Monday, February 4, 2008

As an amateur pundit I cannot aspire to the lack of prescience endemic in the professional punditocracy. But that doesn’t mean I can’t inflict my prognostications on a helpless public. At least in my case, I’m not inflicting myself on a million living rooms. Anyway, here’s my take on tomorrow. I am predicting that Obama […]

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Round to Krugman

Monday, February 4, 2008

My mind is at war with itself. What to do when Paul Krugman and Dean Baker disagree? These are guys that normally know what they’re talking about. In this case the specific area of disagreement is about Obama’s health care plan. Unlike Hillary, it does not mandate that you purchase health insurance, but it does […]

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