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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Give Nancy her due

Thursday, March 18, 2010

If Nancy Pelosi were a man, she would be hailed as one of the most effective Speakers ever. When the Health Care bill passes, it will be because of her leadership. It’s not easy to get 200 and some odd cowards to stand up to the big bad Republicans, but she’s going to get it […]

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The Downside of Blogging

Thursday, March 18, 2010

I just spent about an hour writing a post which started out as a brilliant idea, but slowly ripened, or should I say decayed, into a piece of crap. Into the draft heap it went, probably never to be resurrected. Political punditry is just no fun these days. I am hoping that the eventual passage […]

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Nothing succeeds like failure

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Here’s a type of change I could have believed in: appointing people to federal offices with a proven history of knowing something about the field in which they are chosen to operate. No more Brownies, no more Bernie Keriks. Wouldn’t it be nice. But, at least when it comes to financial regulation, such an outcome […]

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The corporate court strikes again

Monday, March 15, 2010

It is a sad fact that those things to which we pay the most attention often have the least significance. A case in point is Eric Massa, who will not even rate a footnote in history. At the same time, truly significant developments often go unnoticed. It’s only years later that we realize something has […]

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Another example of journalistic malpractice-local variety

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Unfortunately, as I mentioned before, I was unable to candidate’s forum yesterday at the LaGrua Center in Stonington. Just about every candidate for statewide office was there, as was Blumenthal and Joe Courtney. I wasn’t there, but a reporter for the Day was, one Patricia Daddona, whose article was part snark, and part flaccid stenography. […]

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Greetings from Maine

Saturday, March 13, 2010

We played hooky from politics today, missing the candidate meet and greet in Stonington to get together with some friends in Portland, Maine. As I write this I am in a hotel room in Portland, quite glad that I missed the rain down in Connecticut. This is a great town, by the way, superior to […]

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Friday Night Free Association

Friday, March 12, 2010

Well, I started out looking for Ray Charles singing Georgia on My Mind, but decided to go with this, a duet with Willie Nelson: That video led me to this one (it was on the sidebar at youtube), Ray Charles singing Ring of Fire on Johnny Cash’s television show: Which put me in mind of […]

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Hints of spring

Friday, March 12, 2010

I’m not really very good at remembering the names of the various plants, bushes and other assorted vegetation we have around the house, and at the moment my wife’s not around to lend her expertise. In any event, this is a picture of a pussy willow (is that a generic term for this sort of […]

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What’s the poor farmer to do?

Friday, March 12, 2010

The New York Times reports that the price of seed is growing like corn in July: During the depths of the economic crisis last year, the prices for many goods held steady or even dropped. But on American farms, the picture was far different, as farmers watched the price they paid for seeds skyrocket. Corn […]

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Reconciled to Democratic spinelessness

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

I just watched Lawrence O’Donnell, on the Keith Olbermann show, ask the head of the House Progressive Caucus if she feared the possibility of the Senate Parliamentarian ruling certain items of the Health Care reconciliation bill out of order, as not fitting subjects for reconciliation. She, of course, with reason did say that the House […]

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