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Monthly Archives: February 2008

From the Onion

Sunday, February 3, 2008

I automatically download Onion video podcasts on Itunes. This is beyond doubt the funniest I’ve seen: In The Know: Is The Government Spying On Paranoid Schizophrenics Enough? Be warned, 30 second commercial at the end, but you can just stop it.

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Your point being?

Saturday, February 2, 2008

I read this article in this morning’s Day (Killer had been living in Hartford) from beginning to end this morning, my puzzlement mounting. The thrust of it is that a person was convicted of murder here in Connecticut, served his sentence, was released, successfully completed a term of probation (five years), and then legally moved […]

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Original artwork

Saturday, February 2, 2008

When I read this morning’s Zippy, I thought it would be a good one to add to my wife’s collection of bath oriented comics (including another one of Zippy) and pictures that she has-guess where? That’s right, in the bathroom. Here’s today’s comic: She didn’t remember even having an old Zippy in there, but I […]

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Friday Night Music-Brian Wilson

Friday, February 1, 2008

The musical genius of the Beach Boys. God Only Knows: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-jMKeB8qc4[/youtube] Surfin’ USA [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yMR53VcUSk&feature=related[/youtube] And here’s someone’s homemade video, a short snippet with Brian and Bruce Springsteen: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4dlmQwN64c[/youtube]

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A missive from Walter Kerr

Friday, February 1, 2008

We Grotonites fondly remember Walter Kerr, who was Joe Courtney’s field co-ordinator here in our area. Walter worked out of our Groton headquarters. He was able to extract maximum effort out of the motley crew that is the Groton Democrats. We didn’t win Groton, but we narrowed Simmons previous margins enough to be able to […]

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Blowin in the wind

Friday, February 1, 2008

I am veering back and forth between Obama and Hillary. During yesterday’s debate one of the questions from the public raised the question of dynasty. I think it’s a serious issue. We can’t allow our highest office to become a hereditary entitlement. That, along with my reluctance to see endure another 8 years of Clinton […]

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Nancy laments

Friday, February 1, 2008

What do I find in my inbox today, but a missive from Nancy DiNardo, telling me how shocked, truly shocked she is at that fact that Joe Lieberman is not a man of his word: “I continue to be disappointed beyond words with Joe Lieberman, as are a lot of Connecticut Democrats — saddened, surprised, […]

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Across the Universe

Friday, February 1, 2008

Every once in a rare while, the government does something cool: NASA will send the Beatles song “Across the Universe” across the universe on Monday, the agency said. At precisely 7 p.m., E.S.T. the song will be beamed by the agency’s Deep Space Network of antennas at the North Star, Polaris, which is 431 light […]

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