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Friday Night Music, Early Edition

Friday, January 15, 2010

My wife and I are going to Keene, NH today, and may very well be without meaningful internet access tonight. At this stage in my life, that’s a little like saying that an alcoholic will be without his bottle, but I think I’ll make it. We’re going to a Little Feat concert. In truth and […]

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Time for someone to spend more time with his family

Thursday, January 14, 2010

The new Quinnipiac Poll shows Bluementhal crushing his potential Republican opponents. But the word crush is far too mild for what he is doing to Merrick Alpert. He’s beating Merrick 82 to 4. Given the 4.6% margin of error, Merrick could theoretically get -.6% of the vote. Okay, I know that’s not possible. On the […]

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Horrible Democrat to take on mediocre Democrat?

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Harold Ford, former head of the DLC, is thinking of running against Kirsten Gillibrand for the Democratic Senate nomination in New York Progressive types have been lukewarm about Gillibrand, but if anyone can turn their grudging acceptance into passionate ardor, it’s Harold Ford. Today’s front page NY Times article, whether intentionally or not, outs this […]

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Important stuff

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Front page article in the New York Times today on an earth shaking development. Conan O’Brien is refusing to move his show to 11:30 because of his deep and abiding respect for the institution of the Tonight Show. Once you’ve devoured the front page article, you can turn to the op-ed page and read an […]

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Random notes

Monday, January 11, 2010

A few observations, with the only common thread being that they involve our media. I have largely ignored the “underwear bomber” because I don’t think much of the faked controversy that’s kept the pundits busy for weeks. So long as we continue to invade Middle Eastern countries we can expect to be targeted by terrorists. […]

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Democrats opt to tax their base

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Firedoglake has engaged in a sometimes hostile opposition from the left to the Obama Administration. At times it has been a bit over the top, but sometimes they get things exactly right. We are all, perhaps, getting a bit weary about even thinking about health care, which is just what the lobbyists want, so they […]

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Krugman speaks

Saturday, January 9, 2010

I am always smugly satisfied when Paul Krugman agrees with me. Of course “agrees” is somewhat of a stretch, implying as it does that he has read anything I’ve ever written; rather let us say that our minds have run along parallel tracks, and sometimes mine pulls into the station ahead of his (at least […]

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Friday Night Music-Jackson Browne

Friday, January 8, 2010

It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve posted music, the holidays having gotten in the way. Today’s selection was inspired by a bittersweet event that I attended earlier today. I attended a memorial service for Bill Hescock, former North Stonington first selectman, chairman of the North Stonington Democratic Town Committee, loyal Democrat and enthusiastic […]

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Second Anniversary

Friday, January 8, 2010

Despite problems with our reminder emails, we had a nearly full house last night for our Drinking Liberally “meeting”. This was our second anniversary, a milestone I had my doubts we’d ever meet. Here’s our merry band, after most of the liberal drinking had already taken place. I should mention here that the folks at […]

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25% man

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Joe Lieberman’s approval rating in Connecticut is at 25%. He has managed to alienate voters across the board, losing points with Democrats, Independents and Republicans. Quite a feat. I made the point a few months ago that his machinations on health care have been motivated by pure spite, and I think these poll results support […]

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