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Monthly Archives: July 2009

The argument in a nutshell

Friday, July 17, 2009

Stephen Colbert and/or his staff of writers is brilliant. Here he precisely summarizes the anti-Sotomayor argument from the right.

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Lost Rivers

Friday, July 17, 2009

Today’s Times reports that there’s a world wide movement to liberate the rivers that flow through many of the world’s cities. Over the course of the last century many were covered with concrete. When I was a kid there were sections of the Park (or Hog, depending on your taste) River that were still running […]

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Do not get a Blackberry

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

A product review. This is by way of venting, so feel free to ignore. Last month I mentioned that I got a Blackberry, through my place of employment and “free” to me. Having had the device for a month I think I have enough experience to ask this question: What is wrong with all those […]

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Art on Groton Bank Saturday

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Just a reminder. Once again Art on Groton Bank will hold an event in the shadow of the Groton Monument, right next to the Bill Library at 240 Monument Street. If you’re in the market for some good original art at reasonable prices, stop on by. Even if you are not interested in buying, it’s […]

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Heads Simmons Wins, Tails Dodd Loses

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Numerous bloggers on the left have remarked about the fact that the media’s propensity to find that any development, no matter how superficially negative for the Republicans, is actually good news for them. It’s mainly a national media phenomenon, but it does tend to infect local media as well. Consider this from this morning’s Day, […]

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Afraid of empathy

Monday, July 13, 2009

Charles Grassley, who has somehow been elected a United States Senator,quakes in fear at the prospect of a judge who is able to feel empathy: President Obama said that he would nominate judges based on their ability to “empathize” in general and with certain groups in particular. This “empathy” standard is troubling to me. In […]

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How much would you pay?

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Editor and Publisher reports that the New York Times is doing a survey to determine how much its readers would pay for access to its website. As one who is still paying for three print newspapers and several magazines, I think I can make a credible claim that I am not reluctant to pay for […]

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Groton Odyssey

Saturday, July 11, 2009

For reasons of no interest to anyone but us, we couldn’t stray far from home today, so we took the chance to take in a few of Groton’s many attractions. Few people outside of Groton know that Mystic is not all there is to our fair town. This is the view from Fin’s Cafe, which […]

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Student loan companies demand access to guaranteed profits

Saturday, July 11, 2009

There is a sort of replay of the health care debate, writ much smaller, going on now in Congress. The Obama administration wants to go to a single payer system-in the student loan business. This runs counter to the long tradition in this country that mandates that some private company or individual should always be […]

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Friday Night Music-The Dead

Friday, July 10, 2009

The consensus at our last Drinking Liberally was that I had never posted any videos of The Grateful Dead, a grievous oversight which I shall try to rectify today. In truth, for reasons I cannot explain, I never listened to the Dead when I was young. I never owned one of their albums, never went […]

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