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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Zero

Friday, March 27, 2009

Good web-ad from the DNC

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Disconsolate

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The Norwich YMCA is closing. It’s a great loss to the Norwich community. But I come not to grieve for the town, I come to grieve for me. For the past 20 years or so, unless I’ve been in court, I have made my way at lunchtime to the Y’s excellent swimming pool to log […]

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A Short Lesson in Constitutional law

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Just before Obama’s press conference (which I thought went well) I happened to catch a snippet of Chris Matthews opining with certainty that the bill recently passed by the House, which seeks to tax those bonuses, was obviously a bill of attainder and quite obviously unconstitutional. This, along with a related meme that the bill […]

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A Lamb prepares for the slaughter

Monday, March 23, 2009

According to the Norwich Bulletin, at least one Republican is ready to take on Joe Courtney in 2010: Glastonbury Republican Matthew M. Daly has declared his candidacy for the Second Congressional District, challenging two-term incumbent Democrat Joseph Courtney. Daly said he will campaign on a platform of “bringing efficient, effective governance to Congress, restoring core […]

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Scapegoating Dodd, take 2

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Factcheck.org has weighed in on Dodd’s responsibility, or lack thereof, for the legislative language that allowed those bonuses (or, more accurately, did not stop them). Some Republicans are blaming Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut for millions in bonus payments paid by taxpayer-owned American International Group. … As it was passed in the Senate, the […]

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Half Measures

Sunday, March 22, 2009

The headlines this morning were all about Obama’s intention to rein in executive pay as part of his overall plan to impose some order on the outlaw financial markets. There isn’t much detail because at the moment there isn’t much plan, but it seems pretty clear that they’re not thinking of doing much on the […]

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The Sanctity of Contracts

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Promises made are apparently sacred only up to a point: Elizabeth and James Pham put all their savings into the deposit they made on a $956,990 two-bedroom apartment at Maxwell Place, a new development in Hoboken, N.J. They signed an agreement for the apartment in 2005, put down $93,199 and were preapproved for a mortgage […]

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Friday Night Music-The Eagles

Friday, March 20, 2009

Double feature. Take it Easy, with Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne playing along. And Silver Threads and Golden Needles, with just Linda.

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AIG: The gift (to bloggers, anyway) that keeps on giving

Friday, March 20, 2009

Every time you think you’ve reached level red on the outrage meter, AIG manages to come up with a way to out-do itself. And I’m not even talking about the fact that it recently sued the government for a tax refund it feels its owed for laundering money through a series of offshore corporations: The […]

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3 more days

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

I took this picture on Sunday. These are Snowdrops, which I believe usually come out earlier than this time of year, though I’d defer to my wife on that if she were around to ask. I’m posting this just because, with all the bad news on the political front, we can still take solace from […]

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