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Monthly Archives: October 2008

More false equivalency

From the Times: With heavy voter turnout expected on Election Day, both parties are amassing thousands and thousands of lawyers to keep an eye on the polls. Senator Barack Obama’s campaign is expected to send at least 5,000 lawyers to Florida alone. The first recruitment e-mail message the campaign sent out nationally received 6,000 responses […]

Meanwhile, under the radar

The Bush Administration has entered full destructo mode. They have only two months left to complete destruction of everything. Most of us think they’ve already succeeded admirably, but there’s more to be done. For instance: At the Bush administration’s direction, the Environmental Protection Agency is working on a new rule that would weaken pollution regulations […]

Students for Courtney

Brian Farber of the Courtney campaign asked, along (probably) with every other blogger in Connecticut, to post a video of a new Courtney commercial featuring 2nd District students. Unfortunately, the embedded video plays automatically, whether you like it or not, as soon as you come to this august location. So I deleted it right after […]

I must be dreaming

Despite what seemed like the Justice Department’s best effort to screw up the case against him, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens went down today, convicted by a jury of his peers on seven counts of violating ethics laws. This is too much good news, and makes me suspect anew that I am being set up.

Patriots in Indiana

Indiana is not a very enlightened state, but it leads the nation in one respect: robocalls are illegal. If you want to spread slime, you have to hire real people to do it. The only trouble is that real people, even the poorly paid folks who really need the money they make in what must […]

A bit of detail on some right wing nonsense

Yesterday, I posted about my foray into the world of right wing radio, and my astonishment that in these critical times, the intellectual underclass is more concerned about Obama’s birth certificate than financial meltdown, imperial madness, health care, global warming, or even their own pet causes like abortion. I confess that the issue took me […]

Some thoughts for the homestretch

Frankly, I’m getting tired of reading about the election campaign. It’s actually beginning to look like opinions have hardened. Unless modern day polling techniques have gone off the rails, or the Republicans manage to steal it again, Barack Obama will be the next president. All we have to do is endure another week or so […]

Mea culpa

I want to apologize to those who check in to see Friday Night Music. I had to trek up to Logan Airport yesterday to pick someone up. I left at 4 and returned at 9, by which time I was pretty much exhausted. I wasn’t capable of writing, and I totally forgot about the music.

Still seething

The story begins Thursday evening, at the Groton Democratic Town Committee. Our esteemed chairman announced that she had been approached by Anne Buonocore, host of a weekly radio program on WXLM, out of New London. She hosts a show that is normally dedicated to “the celebrity in ordinary people” or some such thing, meaning she […]

Opie, Andy and the Fonz

How can we lose? See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die