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Monthly Archives: May 2008

Jim Mitchell

Friday, May 9, 2008

My wife and I got an invitation to Jim Mitchell’s retirement party today. Jim, for those of you not from Groton, is our superintendent of schools, who is actually retiring. He was not fired, driven out or caught in a scandal. He did not piss people off by trying to get a free Audi (seasoned […]

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Solidifying the Second

Friday, May 9, 2008

Via Connecticut Local Politics, the Cook Report confirms what we’ve known for a long time, the Second is no longer in play: The Cook Political Report has changed its rating for Connecticut’s 2nd Congressional District from “Likely Democratic” to “Solid Democratic.” This is stunning, considering that this district saw the closest congressional race in the […]

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Sound business plan

Friday, May 9, 2008

This is in the beating a dead horse category, but even I am stunned by the monumental stupidity of the folks at General Motors. At least they’re consistent. They just couldn’t see the gas crunch coming, so they just built more and more SUVs. And who would ever have thought that they could go wrong […]

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McCain’s other pastor

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Among other things, a Through-the-Looking-Glass history lesson. But of course, when it’s a right wing cleric that just makes things up it gets no attention. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXZbIGJrDkg[/youtube] Not scary because not black. Not offensive because he backs McCain.

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Yet another modest proposal

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Hillary is pointing out that, while Obama is winning elections, he has to make do with fewer white votes than she is getting. This is a common complaint of many politicians and pundits, who often point out that an election would have turned out quite differently but not for the fact that black voters have […]

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Hiatus

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

This blog probably goes silent tomorrow. I have to go to New Jersey for work related reasons, and I don’t expect to get back until late tomorrow night. In the meantime, a few predictions: tomorrow we will learn from the Clintonites that North Carolina doesn’t count, since it is a red state, unlike Indiana which […]

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Talking about comments at the Day

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

I spent this afternoon at the New London Day. Greg Stone invited me to participate in a roundtable discussion. The subject was comments on articles on newspaper websites. Apparently, they can get wild and wooly sometimes, and issues arise about the extent to which the papers should reject offensive comments. For legal reasons they can […]

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On to Iran, helped once again by the New York Times

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

This is something I feel the need to pass on. The New York Times was instrumental in the run up to the Iraq war. It served as a both a conduit and a legitimizer of the war. The administration would feed information to Judith Miller and Michael Gordon, who would dutifully print it, and then […]

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There is some justice

Monday, May 5, 2008

In the world: The 2008 General Conference of the United Methodist Church, the governing body of Southern Methodist University, today voted to reject SMU’s bid to host the George W. Bush Presidential Library. And the vote tally? 844-20. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! That’s really too much. Out of 864 voters, only 20 — that’s 2.3%, if you’re into […]

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Counting crimes

Monday, May 5, 2008

The Washington Post reports that fiscal restraints may be leading some states to reverse the trend toward ever higher rates of incarceration. What logic and proportion cannot do, the lack of money can sometimes accomplish. It seems that it is very expensive to incarcerate people, and there does come a point at which even politicians […]

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