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Monthly Archives: May 2009

Mother’s Day Excursion

Sunday, May 10, 2009

This year my wife and I decided to celebrate Mother’s Day by taking a little trip, so Saturday Morning (this is written Saturday night, but the wireless connection in our bed and breakfast went out, so it likely won’t be posted until Sunday) we set out for the Berkshires, slowly wending our way through Northwestern […]

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Friday Night Music-Peter Seeger at 90

Friday, May 8, 2009

I’ve put Pete up before, but how can you ignore a legend’s 90th birthday. Here’s Bruce Springsteen (this is all talking, so skip it if you just want music) talking about Pete at the recent birthday bash. As Springsteen says, Pete did outlast the bastards, or at least generations of them, including the crop that […]

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Crazy and/or stupid in Georgia

Friday, May 8, 2009

Wow. If you ever needed proof that the people of these states, particularly those in the South, have a habit of electing truly stupid and/or crazy people, check this out. Hendrik Hertzbert reports (I got to him via the Washington Monthly) on a Georgia State Senate Resolution that adopts whole hog the reasoning of the […]

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Call for Artists

Friday, May 8, 2009

I told Audrey Heard that my roster of readers, being limited, probably contains few artists, but one never knows. Audrey is looking for artists to display and sell their wares at Art on Groton Bank, which will be held this year on July 18th, as you can see below. The picture is sort of tiny, […]

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Drinking Liberally tomorrow

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

There can’t be good living where there is not good drinking. Benjamin Franklin If Ben were alive today, as a good liberal and enthusiastic (if moderate) drinker, he’d be making plans to attend Drinking Liberally tomorrow. As always, 6:30 PM, the Bulkeley House, 111 Bank Street, New London. Don’t miss it!

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Not a favorable comparison

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Steven Benen, at the Washington Monthly, takes exception to the fact that the UK is banning political extremists from entering that country: I can vaguely understand why these measures might be tempting, but it’s developments like these that remind me why U.S. civil liberties are worth appreciating. I agree with his position that these bans […]

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The circle closes

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Seldom are the victims (if only the secondary victims) of a conspiracy privileged to watch that conspiracy play out before there very eyes. The entire American people have now been so privileged, as we see the Bush torture conspiracy come to a successful end. It can truly be said that at no time has the […]

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Dodd speaks on torture

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Okay, I give up. I normally spend my lunch time at work cruising the net, and often send links home that I think it would be good to write about. Often, unfortunately, I forget to send them. I just spent about an hour searching for a story I read about Obama’s tax haven proposal. I […]

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A Good Witch

Sunday, May 3, 2009

When my kids were little my wife and I read most, if not all, of the Oz books to them, both those by the original author, L. Frank Baum, and by his successor, Ruth Plumly Thompson. So I was interested when I saw Finding Oz in my local bookstore. It’s a biography of Baum by […]

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The Republican Philosophy in a Nutshell

Sunday, May 3, 2009

The folks at ThinkProgress have done an admirable job of exposing Karl Rove’s latest bit of hypocrisy here. Seems Karl no longer feels that the President’s choice for the Supreme Court deserves absolute deference. No surprise there, and in any event, exposing Rovian hypocrisy makes shooting fish in a barrel look like rocket science. But […]

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