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Monthly Archives: April 2016

Someone ought to sue

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Meteor Blades and Joan McCarter at Daily Kos, are writing a series entitled The War on Voting. The latest article discusses a lawsuit against the state of North Carolina:   U.S. District Court Judge Thomas D. Schroeder, a George W. Bush appointee, ruled in favor of North Carolina’s new voting law Monday, prompting plaintiffs in […]

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A Democratic hypocrite of Republican proportions

Friday, April 29, 2016

It is a sad fact of life that, while they are indeed masters of the art, the Republicans do not have a monopoly on hypocrisy. Consider Debbie Wasserman Schultz, one of the more loathsome Democrats out there: Last week, Florida congresswoman and DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced that she was signing on as an […]

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Who says skunks stink?

Thursday, April 28, 2016

We live in funny times. I would have thought that if you see a dead skunk in the middle of the road, and something is stinkin’ to high heaven, you can conclude beyond reasonable doubt that the smell is coming from the skunk, especially if the smell gets worse the closer you examine the skunk. […]

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Another petard hoisted

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

I just heard about this, and, as a lawyer, I am mightily impressed: Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, failed on Thursday to win the dismissal of an antitrust lawsuit accusing him of scheming to drive up prices for passengers who use the popular ride-sharing service. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan said […]

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Immune from attack

Monday, April 25, 2016

I’m a Bernie guy, but I try to be rational and realistic. There are some Bernie folks out there, otherwise reasonable people, who believe that Bernie will get the nomination when Hillary is indicted because of her email server. Not only is that not going to happen, it shouldn’t happen, because she didn’t do anything […]

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This cracks me up

Saturday, April 23, 2016

Nothing even vaguely political about this, but I can’t stop laughing whenever I read about it: Ships can bear the names of former presidents, war heroes, long-lost loves, or clever puns. However, the U.K. public appears to have taken a different tact when it comes the naming of a new polar vessel from the National […]

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Rejected by the Day

Saturday, April 23, 2016

Recently I alluded to the fact that the New London Day, and in particular, its columnist, Dave Collins has been conducting a bit of a jihad against our State Senator, Andy Maynard. Andy suffered a brain injury before the last election. He now suffers from aphasia, which means he has trouble articulating his thoughts. As […]

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Trump aides: Don’t worry, he’s lying

Friday, April 22, 2016

I’m not alone in pointing out that we really have no idea what Trump would do if he were elected President. I don’t know if I’ve said it here, but I’ve often said to friends of mine that I could envision Trump, the day after his inauguration, telling the press: “You didn’t really believe all […]

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Stopped clocks, etc.

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

It’s not often that I find myself in even partial agreement with Republicans from Texas, but I have only a few minor quibbles about this: A handful of Texas Republican district or county conventions in March passed resolutions calling for a vote on secession, paving the way for a potentially awkward debate at the state […]

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John Kasich is not a moderate 

Saturday, April 16, 2016

I’m a deeply disappointed guy. Today, the New London Day endorsed John Kasich for the Connecticut Republican primary, as I expected it would. I’m not disappointed by that, it was inevitable. What I am disappointed by is the Day’s failure to apply the term “moderate” to Kasich. When I saw they’d endorsed him, I figured […]

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