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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Censorship

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Via Americablog, yet again. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZII0GjcJMus[/youtube] Librarians have been silent heroes in a lot of ways over the course of the last seven years. They resisted the Patriot Act’s Big Brother is Watching provisions requiring disclosure of library patron reading habits, and they have consistently opposed attempts at book banning of the type Palin was contemplating. […]

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Upside down

Thursday, September 11, 2008

This is not the way it’s supposed to work. Local newspeople are supposed to be in awe of presidential candidates and are supposed to toss softballs. National newspeople are supposed to be the fearsome interlocutors. Check out John McCain’s lame responses to fairly aggressive questions from a newsman on WCSH in Portland, Maine. Note, by […]

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Contrast and compare

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Over at Americablog, John Aravosis writes (I quote in full): It’s time for someone in the media to ask who this cynical liar is running for president under John McCain’s name, because he’s not John McCain. Actually, it is John McCain. He is now, and never has, been any different than any other Republican. In […]

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Upcoming events

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

My wife and I just returned from a meeting at Waterford Democratic Headquarters, where Andrew Bray, Courtney’s field co-ordinator, went over the ground rules for phone and door to door canvassing. I confess to being there under somewhat false pretenses. I have hated the phone since I was small, and I can’t stand going door […]

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Joe can’t eat with the Dems anymore

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Harry Reid may or may not have kicked Joe Lieberman out of the Democrat’s dining room. It’s a small step, but hardly gratifying enough, especially considering the fact that Reid’s spokesman is now denying it. If a similar situation occurred on the Republican side we wouldn’t be talking about dining rooms, we’d be hearing about […]

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Palin on the environment

Monday, September 8, 2008

A Groton Democrat passed this article, aptly titled Sarah Palin’s record on environment is abysmal) along to me, so I’m going to break my self imposed no-Palin policy to pass it along. There are no surprises here, but there are lots of details. The lady’s environmental policies are dreadful, but what else is new. Some […]

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Terminal dysfunction

Monday, September 8, 2008

I am going to wait a while before entering panic mode, which so many have done with the polls showing a tightening race, what with the McCain convention bounce. Odd how we get all upset when the expected happens. More problematic is the fact that the press appears to have entered the tank big time […]

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Technical Difficulties

Sunday, September 7, 2008

One of my readers said he had problems posting comments. When he tried, he got a message to the effect that comments were turned off to prevent comment spam. I never turned the comments off, but I have, since I found out about his problem, upgraded my spam filter, which I hoped solved the problem. […]

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Dragonflies

Sunday, September 7, 2008

It’s almost too good a day to think about politics. There’s nothing happening anyway, except that the mortgage crisis is going into meltdown mode, (funny how these things tend to happen on Sundays lately) but who’s thinking about that? The remnants of Hanna seem to have scoured the air and, as such storms so often […]

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Daily Show and Colbert cover the convention

Saturday, September 6, 2008

By far the most incisive coverage of the Republican convention was on the Daily Show, followed by Stephen Colbert. We’ve sometimes been a bit disappointed with Jon Stewart, who can sometimes be a little deferential to his right wing guests, but the show pulled no punches this week. Some of my favorite bits, in no […]

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