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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Groton Democrat to display art in Old Lyme. Other artists to appear too

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Next week, the Lyme-Old Lyme Junior Women’s Club holds its annual Art Show at the Old Lyme Art Association. The details are on the flyer reproduced below. The money goes to good causes, and the art is always very good. There will be lots of artists there, but only one of them lives down the […]

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I’m not a member of any organized political party, I’m a Democrat!

Saturday, April 19, 2008

If Will Rogers needed confirmation of his point of view, he need only have looked at the 2008 Democratic 18th Senatorial District State Central Convention, to which I had the dubious honor of being a delegate. Actually, the convention went fine. I played a sterling role, being firstest with the mostest when it came to […]

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Friday Night Music-Doo Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Doo

Friday, April 18, 2008

If you can listen to this song and not start smiling, then you need to change your meds. Mannfred Mann: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwA0NaRmyCA&feature=related[/youtube]

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More on the debate

Friday, April 18, 2008

A few more thoughts about Wednesday’s debate. First, I find it surprising that anyone finds it surprising that ABC sought out the flag pin lady. I knew it as soon as I saw her. That they left such easily followed footprints is just a sign of their arrogance, but also, I believe, of the fact […]

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Distractions on notice

Friday, April 18, 2008

Absolute best Colbert ever last night. Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama were all on. Even John McCain made a brief (taped) appearance, napping at the state of the Union. Here’s Barack: Colbert’s a true patriot. How sick is this country when the most responsible journalists on television work for the Comedy Channel?

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ABC Hits New Low

Thursday, April 17, 2008

I’m a bit late to the feast, a function of my blogging schedule, but I might as well add my voice to the chorus of folks condemning ABC for the conduct of the “debate” last night. Maybe it was a sixth sense, but I didn’t watch it in real time. I recorded it on my […]

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Secretary of torture

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Condi does not condone torture. She can say this because, according to their lawyer and their Orwellian way of thinking, it’s only torture if they say it is, and they say it isn’t. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gqaw5UnHA4[/youtube] Sign the Get Rid of Condi Petition here. Yes, I know it’s not going to happen, but that’s no excuse.

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3 trillion is a very big number

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

3 trillion dollars is the estimated cost of the Iraq war, an outlay that was totally avoidable and which could have been used for other purposes, or never borrowed in the first place. Numbers that big make your brain go numb. They are literally incomprehensible. This site tries to make them somewhat comprehensible. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgq5suMXCV8[/youtube]

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One more reason to support Obama

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

This blog seriously cuts into my reading time. My stack of Christmas books is only beginning to dwindle. I just finished Paul Krugman’s Conscience of a Liberal, which, of course, I heartily recommend. Unlike the Great Unraveling, it is not merely a collection of his columns. Krugman appears to be a Hillary supporter, primarily, I […]

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Defending John Yoo

Monday, April 14, 2008

The Dean of the School of Law at Berkeley defends his school for continuing to shelter John Yoo, who is a tenured professor at that now tainted institution. Some of his argument makes sense. There are issues of academic freedom involved, and if he just stuck to the position that he abhors John Yoo, but […]

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