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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Larson pushes for carbon tax

Saturday, March 7, 2009

John Larson is fighting a lonely, apparently hopeless fight to do something that is extremely sensible: Representative John B. Larson embarked again this week on his lonely quest to enact a national tax on carbon dioxide emissions. His idea is to set a modest price on a ton of emissions, gradually increasing it each year […]

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Friday Night Music-Smokey Robinson

Friday, March 6, 2009

You can’t say much for the video in this clip, but the sound is great, and if the person who posted this to youtube is to be believed, this performance took place in October 2008. His voice is still superb, unlike some of the geezers who are still out there.

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Jon Stewart hits the mark

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Just got back from Drinking Liberally and definitely not up to writing anything. Instead, I invite you to watch this clip from the Daily Show. It’s must viewing.

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A hard case

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

There’s an old saw in the legal biz: Hard cases make bad law. If that’s true, then the Supreme Court is about to make bad law. In 2002 a West Virginia jury awarded $50 million dollars in damages to a coal plant operator that it found was fraudulently forced into bankruptcy by a company owned […]

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Drinking Liberally

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Drinking Liberally Agenda Thursday, March 5, 2009 6:30 PM Bulkeley House 111 Bank Street New London, CT 6:30 to 7:00 PM In depth discussion of the Obama Budget, with particular emphasis on stimulative effect of tax cuts vs. spending on anything you can think of OR Drinking, Eating, and Mindless Chatter 7:00 to 7:30 PM […]

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Cramdowns

Monday, March 2, 2009

Firedoglake is sounding the alarm about the “New Democrats”, many of whom are still taking their marching orders from the banks who have brought us to the brink, if not into the vortex, of disaster. In this case, the chief villain is Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher, a former Wall Street investment banker who is carrying water […]

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Groton Reeling

Sunday, March 1, 2009

According to the Day’s headline writer (we can’t blame the reporter for this) an Open-Space Bill [has taken] Groton By Surprise. The text of the article tells a bit different story. We townsfolk are in fact going about our business in as placid a state as the impending Depression permits, unfazed by the Open Space […]

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