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Monthly Archives: April 2009

This should not be an option

Sunday, April 12, 2009

According to the Times the big banks are suffering from a brain drain as the best and the brightest, their work done at the failed banks, go on to other things: Top bankers have been leaving Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and others in rising numbers to join banks that do not face tighter regulation, […]

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Easter Pictures

Sunday, April 12, 2009

This is a holiday, and though it’s decidedly low key, I’m taking the day off from thinking, so I’m posting a few pictures documenting the ever approaching (but perhaps never arising) dawn of real Spring. You know, with reasonably warm weather, birds, flowers and sunshine. Here along the coast we suffer through many years when […]

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An Easter Homily

Saturday, April 11, 2009

I have to finish my blogging early today to leave time for one of my two annual Easter traditions. I will be viewing the Life of Brian tonight, and I’ll listen to The Messiah (What can I say, it’s beautiful music) at some point before the weekend ends. Before I commence watching the heretical movie, […]

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The sancity of contracts, revisited

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Remember how we were told that AIG just had to pay those bonuses, because contracts are sacred? Some of us had some questions, since union contracts didn’t seem to be so sacred, but then, these days, we are all supposed to join in the general disdain for unions. Why are those people always demanding pay […]

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History Lesson

Friday, April 10, 2009

Apparently the Fox folks and other right wingers are attacking Obama for saying that America is not a Christian nation. I think I’ve mentioned this before, but it’s worth repeating. Here is Article 11 of the 1796 Treaty of Peace and Friendship with Tripoli, negotiated by Connecticut’s own, and too much neglected Joel Barlow: As […]

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Friday Night Music-Devil in a Blue Dress

Friday, April 10, 2009

Just returned from NYC, where we celebrated Good Friday by visiting our son. This is by way of explaining the fact that this is being posted fairly late. This is one of my wife’s favorite songs, if not her favorite. There are no old videos of Mitch Ryder that I could find, but in this […]

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A reasonable request

Thursday, April 9, 2009

My intellectual batteries, or at least the cells that are capable of writing, are pretty tapped out today. I spent six hours doing a rush job writing a brief, and to be frank, I’m just not that into it tonight. But I thought I would pass this on (via Huffington Post)to anyone who might have […]

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Two sides to every story

Thursday, April 9, 2009

The big news this morning was the fact that the crew of a U.S. flagged ship fought off a group of pirates off the coast of Somalia. It still seems jarring that there should be such a thing as pirates in this day and age. As with so many things, this is not what it […]

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Contrasts

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

My wife has been urging me to post this video, which she saw on My Left Nutmeg. Here’s SE Connecticut’s own (can we disown him somehow?) Rob Simmons, gladly joining Sean Hannity in the muck, in contrast to Sam Caliguri, who refuses to wallow. This type of behavior is no surprise to those of us […]

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Obama out-Bushes Bush

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Yet another demonstration of how important it is for those of us on the rational side of the spectrum to avoid the cult of personality that we endured for eight years during the Bush era. The Obama administration has taken an even more extreme position regarding government wiretaps than that taken by the Bushies. Not […]

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