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Monthly Archives: April 2019

All together now

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

A few days ago my wife put this on the Local Resist Facebook page:   At this point this should be fairly non-controversial on our side of the great divide. I’m no fan of Joe Biden or Seth Moulton, and their ilk, but I’ll vote for any one of them if it’s the only way […]

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History repeats in Massachusetts

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

The Boston Globe is reportingtoday that several DAs in Massachusetts are joining a coalition of public defenders and others in a lawsuit seeking to “ halt immigration agents from making civil arrests at state courthouses”. The suit and the general response in Massachusetts to the recent indictment of a state court judge for alleged “obstruction of […]

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Blaming the victims

Sunday, April 28, 2019

Here in the United States we have a pronounced tendency to blame the victim for his or her woes. People are poor because they’re lazy, etc. This may or may not be a universal tendency. I know from my history that it was a commonplace attitude in Britain, where they not only blamed the poor […]

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Hey Joe, how about apologizing to the rest of us?

Friday, April 26, 2019

Joe Biden, rightly anticipating some folks remembering, thought it would be a good idea to call Anita Hilland express his regrets for what she went through so many years ago, but not what he put her through. Joe was merely chair of the committee, how could he possibly prevent what happened to her? She didn’t view it […]

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Heather Somers takes a principled stand

Sunday, April 21, 2019

I haven’t had much luck getting letters published by the New London Day, so I thought I’d publish this one here.  Readers of the Day might be interested to know that State Senator Heather Somers, who “represents” the people of the 18th District, in which I reside, recently cast one of only two negative votes […]

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A Good Friday tradition

Thursday, April 18, 2019

Today is Good Friday, and as I’ve done each Good Friday for the past 13 or so years (yes, I’ve been producing this drivel that long) today I pass on a Good Friday lesson. It’s a lesson that this year of all years we must take to heart. For… Some things in life are bad […]

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Something on the bright side

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Let us take a few moments to appreciate a brief ray of sunshine in our otherwise cloudy times. A few minutes ago I answered the call to come out with some other Groton Dems to support the strikers at our local Stop & Shop. I was wondering how the strike was going, and to what […]

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You can’t get much more impeachable than this

Friday, April 12, 2019

When the genius first moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue I stated my intention of making note of each impeachable offense as it occurred. This proved impossible, since at the time I was a working person and couldn’t possibly keep up. My intentions were good. The spirit was willing, etc. Anyway, it is only right and […]

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The Democrats do something right

Friday, April 12, 2019

I drafted this yesterday, but never put it up. I’ll preface it by saying that I see today that it looks like the Dems may be getting their act together on the propaganda front. Yesterday the Democrats in the House did something right. They voted to reinstitute net neutrality, which the Trump appointed telecom industries stooges at […]

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Sometimes the old words are best

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

I checked my previous posts, and much to my surprise, I have not ranted on this subject before, so here goes. Twitter is all a-twitter today because Ilhan Omar branded Stephen Miller a “white nationalist”. This is sort of like branding me a lapsed Catholic, but what Omar doesn’t seem to understand is that not only […]

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