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Monthly Archives: January 2021

DC Statehood’s likely fate

Thursday, January 28, 2021

A bill has been introduced in Congress to make the District of Columbia a state. The overriding purpose, besides giving people who are subject to taxation some representation, is to increase our Senate majority by adding a fairly populated state to balance off some Senators from sparsely populated wastelands like Wyoming. I’ve read elsewhere, but […]

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New London Day: Whackjobs! We want to hear from you!

Saturday, January 23, 2021

The New London Day apparently can’t afford to send it’s reporters into diners to seek out the whackos, like the New York Times, so it’s asking the whackos to come to it. On the front page of today’s Region section there’s a little item asking whackjobs who’ve applied for pistol permits in 2020 to give […]

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Republicans lament: no fair calling us Republicans

Saturday, January 23, 2021

Pity the poor blogger, when fate deals him a hand that he cannot win. This article in the New London Day presents a challenge that requires a Mark Twain, or, at the very least, a Driftglass to come up with just the right nouns, verbs and especially adjectives to properly mock the Republicans of the […]

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Is it okay if you’re a Democrat?

Thursday, January 21, 2021

I have to admit that I was unaware of this at the time, but apparently during the administration of he who shall go unnamed, the Supreme Court ruled that legislation shielding the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from being fired was unconstitutional. They did it so the genius could replace a rational person […]

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Inaugural Playlist

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

As I write this, or begin to write this, there are 21 hours and 58 minutes to go, but the end is in sight, so here’s some music to get in the right mood. I retired that some of these have no video, but you take what you can get. First up, because it’s the […]

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Another resistance hero?

Monday, January 18, 2021

On the first day of January of the worst year in many decades (that being 2020) I wrote a piece in which I made a number of predictions. Here’s one paragraph that came to mind recently: The Republicans, in alliance with Fox News, will suddenly declare that the president is subject to the rule of […]

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Somebody better investigate soon

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

This post at Hullabaloo is well worth reading. It relates the impressions of the Capitol Hill insurrection of historian Terry Bouton, who has attended multiple Washington demonstrations as an observer. His observations about the demographic makeup of the crowd are enlightening, but most interesting are his observations about the security: There is no doubt the […]

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John Scott knows the playbook

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

This morning’s New London Day has an article about local Republicans, many of whom are blaming Antifa for the insurrection on the 6th. John Scott, chair or the Groton Republicans, whose name has frequently appeared on this blog, was among those quoted. In a Jan. 6 Facebook post, John Scott, the Groton RTC chairman, wrote, […]

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Is it time to get over it yet?

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Way back in the year 2000, when the Supreme Court probably stole an election from the Democrats, an outcome that surely accelerated the tendency toward fascism in this country (George Bush and Dick Cheney are masquerading as good guys now, but they helped lay the groundwork for the very stable genius), we Democrats were advised […]

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More libel suits, please

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Dominion has had some success in getting Fox to back down by threatening libel actions, and is threatening to sue Trump and his attorneys. This may be one way in which the spread of disinformation can be halted. Last night a group of people staged a candlelight vigil at Josh Hawley’s home, protesting his pre-announced […]

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