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Daily Archives: May 30th, 2020

It’s them outside agitators!

One of the things you can always count on with the right is that they constantly accuse others of crimes of which they have a near monopoly. I can remember, though I was not yet thirteen, hearing Southern racists complaining on TV that their (n-word here) were perfectly happy, and that it was those outside […]

Say you aren’t Joe, Matt

I’ve been writing this blog since early 2005. When I started, I was one among many Connecticut left wing bloggers, all of whom, so far as I know, have fallen by the wayside, blog wise, and confine themselves to twitter, a medium in which I have never felt particularly comfortable. Anyway, in those long ago […]

Heavy, Man!

Any long time readers surely know that I’m a big fan of Randy Newman. I have, heretofore, wholly subscribed to his theory of the origins of the Judeo-Christian religions, as set forth by the devil as he addresses god, in Randy’s largely unappreciated Faust: Some fools in the desertWith nothing else to doSo scared of […]