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Monthly Archives: April 2012

Friday NIght Music, Double Feature

Friday, April 6, 2012

It appears that this week was really, truly, finally the week that Mitt Romney became inevitable. So this is the song Republicans are singing. They didn’t get what they wanted, so now they’re desperately hoping-desperately trying to convince themselves-that they got what they needed. Well, this isn’t any old Friday, this is Good Friday, and […]

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Joe Courtney visits Drinking Liberally

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Joe Courtney joined the regulars at the SE CT Drinking Liberally get together in New London tonight. Mayor Finizio put in an appearance as well. That’s Matt Shafner on the right.    

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Google dumps independent booksellers

Thursday, April 5, 2012

A few months ago I was delighted to learn that I could buy e-books through my local bookstore, meaning I could funnel at least part of my money to someone local, instead of handing it to Apple or Amazon. Bank Square Books, of Mystic, sold books through an e-book distributor named Blio, which, to my […]

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Let them eat shit

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Even Marie Antoinette might have qualms about this one, but in this day and age, it’s merely par for the course. According to the good folks at the Daily Kos (via Grist), shit is pretty much what we’ll be eating, if the Department of Agriculture gets its way. It is proposing that we allow poultry […]

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Obama takes the gloves off-finally

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Sounds like Obama did a great job unloading on the Republicans today, and, quite predictably, the whiner’s chorus has commenced. This kind of thing just gave Paul Ryan the vapors: “Our entire financial system was nearly destroyed. So we’ve tried this theory out. And you’d think that with the results of this experiment of trickledown […]

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Taxing the rich

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Anyone who has read this blog faithfully, and there may be one or more people who have, know that I’m a big fan of high tax rates on the rich. So it was with much satisfaction that I read this post by Paul Krugman, in which he explains, using math I cannot understand, that the […]

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Bipartisanship at last!

Monday, April 2, 2012

Democrats and Republicans alike rally around pink slime.

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Big Brother wants to protect us

Sunday, April 1, 2012

It’s probably fair to assume that Orwell was hoping his predictions would be wrong, but probably not like this. Even he could not envision the extent to which Big Brother would be watching out for we little brothers and sisters. How could he, as he had no conception of the type of technology that would […]

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Curveball admits he threw a curve

Sunday, April 1, 2012

What a surprise: A man whose lies helped to make the case for invading Iraq – starting a nine-year war costing more than 100,000 lives and hundreds of billions of pounds – will come clean in his first British television interview tomorrow.   “Curveball”, the Iraqi defector who fabricated claims about Iraq’s weapons of mass […]

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