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Monthly Archives: September 2009

Dodd on the comeback trail

Monday, September 14, 2009

The Daily Kos poll has Chris Dodd within four of Simmons and ahead of Foley, both of whom are largely undefined to most Connecticut voters. Three of the four Republican candidates are raising big bucks, so we can expect some bloodletting to take place on that side before the big show takes place. Gabe Rosenberg […]

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I’m beginning to see a pattern here

Monday, September 14, 2009

FromBloomberg news: Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize- winning economist, said the U.S. has failed to fix the underlying problems of its banking system after the credit crunch and the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. … “It’s an outrage,” especially “in the U.S. where we poured so much money into the banks,” Stiglitz said. “The […]

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Funny video

Monday, September 14, 2009

This video has been around for more than a week, and I guess it took off over the last couple of days, so by now, just about anyone not living in a cave has seen it. I just emerged from my cave today, and should any of you still be dwelling in such a habitation, […]

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The Times They are Changin’

Sunday, September 13, 2009

One salutary by-product of all the hate and vitriol spilling out of the right is that Maureen Dowd appears to have woken up to the fact that there are more important things than Maureen Dowd. She actually wrote a reasonably good column today, in which she deals seriously with a serious subject-the racial animus behind […]

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Today’s Comics

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Dedicated to my brother-in-law, he of the terrible puns.

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Environmental outrages

Sunday, September 13, 2009

The Times has begun a major new series on water pollution, detailing the degradation of our water’s quality by the usual suspects, and the attendant health consequences. This looks to be a great piece of journalism, and is further proof that despite print journalism’s many failings, we need outlets like the Times to survive in […]

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Groton Opens Local Headquarters

Saturday, September 12, 2009

The Groton Democratic Town Committee formally opened its new Headquarters today. We had a reasonably good turnout, including two people who are exploring the idea of running for governor. You sort of get the impression that they are constantly tripping over each other, since they must be going to functions like this all the time. […]

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Cave of the week

Saturday, September 12, 2009

This is happening with depressing regularity: FOX’s Glenn Beck, whose criticism got a top Obama aide fired this week, has also been agitating about ACORN and its involvement with the 2010 census. The Obama administration has just announced that it is severing its ties with ACORN, and they admitted that they made the move because […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, September 11, 2009

Tracy Chapman. You can’t beat the video and audio quality on this one. Fast Car

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With friends like these

Friday, September 11, 2009

Max Baucus and Kent Conrad are nominal Democrats, extremely nominal. Baucus, especially, has been trying the patience of every knowledgeable Democrat in the country as he pursues his Holy Grail-a reasonable Republican. That animal is extinct. Baucus has made himself look like a fool for the past several weeks as he let himself get played […]

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