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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Obama comes out swinging

Thursday, February 5, 2009

This post is written 90% because I like what Obama did today, and 10% to get back into the good graces of my spouse, who doesn’t like it when I criticize Obama. (See yesterday) I only do it because I want him to succeed, unlike his predecessor, who I freely admit I wanted to fail. […]

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Constitutional Law

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Grimm learns a lesson from our former president.

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Tomorrow Night-First Post Obama Drinking Liberally

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Yet another reminder. Tomorrow at 6:30 PM, at the Bulkeley House on Bank Street in New London, we’ll have our first Post-Obama Drinking Liberally. We’re looking forward to a first hand report on the inauguration from one of our regulars, who was a holder of one of those infamous purple tickets.

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Not looking good

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

It is helpful, in these days of Obama stumbles, to remember that it took Bill Clinton quite a while to get his sea legs. On the other hand, Clinton never promised, and never attempted, to deliver fundamental change. Nor did he have the opportunity to change the national conversation the way that Obama does. We […]

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Wells Fargo planned a party

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Sometimes things move too fast. A friend of mine tipped me off to this story this afternoon, and I put it aside to rail against yet another example of corporate greed. Well, it still is, and was, despite Wells Fargo’s decision to back down. It’s also yet another example of the collective blindness under which […]

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Bonuses for regulators?

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

I actually think this is something worth exploring, from the New York Times’ Andrew Sorkin: Maybe someone deserves a bonus. Like someone who sniffs out the next Bernie Madoff. Or jousts with tomorrow’s gonzo bankers. Or defuses the Next Big Crisis in whatever Next Big Thing is dreamed up by Wall Street. Someone, in short, […]

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Profile in Courage

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Headline from this morning’s New London Day: Rell stands firm in her opposition to tax hike. Let’s speak tautologically. How about, Rell refuses to make hard choices, or Rell tries to maneuver Democrats into taking political heat, or Rell stands firm in her support for local property tax increases.

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Where’s Tripp?

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Most conspiracy theories persist because they are inherently impossible to definitively disprove. Sarah Palin could defuse this one with ease, yet it persists and she does nothing to refute it, other than condemn it. I could spin out a conspiracy theory on that one. Maybe she’s waiting to debunk it at an opportune moment for […]

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A prediction

Monday, February 2, 2009

Once again Paul Krugman nails it in this morning’s Times. The Obama Administration, whether through timidity or ideological rigidity on the part of its economic team, seems poised to follow in the footprints of the Bushies. Well, not precisely. Bush spoke softly and carried no stick. Obama speaks harshly, but goes similarly unarmed. When I […]

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Ben Stein expelled from Vermont

Sunday, February 1, 2009

There has been a bit of a storm brewing in the reality based scientific community, Darwin division, since Ben Stein was named to be the commencement speaker at the University of Vermont. Stein was the front man for a film called Expelled, which was ostensibly about the victimization of Darwin doubting scientists, but which was, […]

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