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Monthly Archives: May 2013

Friday Night Music-Nostalgia edition

Friday, May 17, 2013

These are songs that, at least for me, pre-date my first transistor radio. They have absolutely nothing to do with anything going on in the world today, and have only a cheery optimism in common. It’s funny the things that stick in your head. When I was a kid I liked this song, and this […]

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Old Man Rant

Friday, May 17, 2013

One of the advantages of being a near-geezer (still can’t accept it totally) is that you get to complain about trivial things. Or you think you do. So, thats what I’m going to to now-complain about the New London Day. But before I do, let me observe that the Republicans and the media are all […]

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Fuzzy logic

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Much like fuzzy math, except this time it’s really fuzzy, not fake fuzzy like Bush’s. In this morning’s Times, writing on behalf of the usually superb ProPublica, Jesse Eisenger defends the hedge fund guys that have been attacking the Fed and takes to task the economic bloggers that have been having a field day making […]

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Inoculated

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Well, [according to the Beltway pundits](http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-villagers-will-not-be-ignored.html), Obama has himself three scandals. Amazingly enough, one of them, about which the Republicans will take the least umbrage, actually does involve an abuse of power by people for whose actions Obama is responsible. I refer to his Nixon like pursuit of information about members of the press. Charlie […]

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A little more on the IRS “scandal”

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

I’m beginning to feel like I’m cheating, as I’ve linked so often to Pam Martens and her excellent blog, Wall Street on Parade. Today she has another excellent piece, exposing the extent to which the Koch Brothers have funded the tea party movement for the sole purpose of influencing elections. Yesterday, I said this about […]

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The IRS “scandals”

Monday, May 13, 2013

The scandal de jour revolves around the fact that one office in the IRS, under a Bush appointed commissioner, used terms such as “tea party” and “9/12” to help pick and choose the 501©(4) applications to review. I don’t have much to add to what’s written here at the American Prospect. The real scandal, of […]

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Outrage in Texas

Saturday, May 11, 2013

It would be no surprise to hear that Amendments 1 and 3 through 10, possibly 13 and certainly 14 and 15 were being ignored in Texas, but I was stunned to see that the Lone Star State is trampling on Second Amendment rights, the most absolute rights of them all, with nary a word of […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, May 10, 2013

Breaking some rules here, but this song seemed like the perfect follow up to my previous post about the man who used to be a Senator from this great state. No concert videos available, so this will have to do. This was one of those songs that I heard on my first transistor (6 transistors!) […]

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Hey Joe, Shut up and mind your own stupid business

Friday, May 10, 2013

The Boston Police say that they have no way of knowing if they’d have done anything different than the FBI had it passed along information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The FBI did not initially share with Boston police the warnings it had received from Russia about one suspect in last month’s marathon bombings, despite the work […]

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The Hispanic “Race” and other thoughts

Friday, May 10, 2013

Jim DeMint’s Heritage Foundation is catching flack for publishing the ravings of a white supremacist, though why that should be a surprise, I do not know. Prominent Republican lawmakers such as Marco Rubio has questioned the accuracy of the $6.3 trillion price tag. Then there are the revelations that the co-author of the study, Jason […]

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