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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Truly Bad Editing

Saturday, November 7, 2009

This got my lawyer’s hackles raised. In Today’s New London Day I noticed an article titled as follows: Bankruptcy court: Lighthouse Inn filing invalid The clear implication–nay, not implication, but the explicit statement- is that the Bankruptcy Court has ruled that the Lighthouse Inn’s bankruptcy filing was invalid. It’s made even more explicit by this […]

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Friday Night Music-Another Twofer

Friday, November 6, 2009

Primarily, I wanted to do a girl group this week. I actually found a good live version of the Shirelles (one of the best of breed-girl group wise) singing Will You Still Love Me, Tomorrow? I have no idea why the sides of the video are squoshed together (and yes, I know that “squoshed” is […]

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Required reading

Friday, November 6, 2009

Last night at Drinking Liberally (back to great attendance, as various attendees licked their election day wounds), so no posts, and tonight off to see Atul Shah (one of the wound lickers) and his band at Burke’s Tavern, so not much free time. Other than putting up some music (post pending) I can do nothing […]

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Wrenching defeat from the jaws of (possible) victory-and other election day reflections

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

If there was a common theme locally yesterday, it was the victory of the crazies over-not necessarily the rational, but at least the less crazy. In New London the Democratic clowns that have run the town for some 20 odd years were replaced by a mixture of Republican and “green” uber-clowns. I have lived in […]

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Urgent Reminder!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

C’mon people, attendance was dismal at last months Drinking Liberally. Let’s not let that happen again. Thursday we’ll have the chance to celebrate or commiserate, depending on the outcome of today’s elections. Several of our members are running for office, and we’ll be there for all, winners and losers. Here’s hoping for a good turnout. […]

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You just can’t please some people

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Al Gore is being criticized for investing in green technology by the very people who tell the rest of us that conservation will lead us to economic ruin.

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Time for them to go…. to jail

Monday, November 2, 2009

No editorial comment needed: In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting. Goldman’s sales and its […]

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Tragedy Strikes

Monday, November 2, 2009

Via the Onion:

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Autumn colors

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Fading fast, but not quite gone. These are from our backyard, a Japanese Maple, with bright red leaves, and a Redbud with a variety of more muted colors.

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Dismal Science on a Dismal Sunday

Sunday, November 1, 2009

This morning, Gregory Mankiw, one of the economists who got us into this mess and a shill for conservative economic theories, pens a New York Times op-ed piece in which he laments the tax disincetives to work supposedly embedded in the Obama Health Plan. (We are supposed to ignore the fact that the Rube Goldberg […]

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