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Goodbye, Little Marco

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

This morning I opened up the New London Day (always a depressing way to start the day), and soon found myself brought up short when I read this: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio ended his once-promising campaign after his devastating home-state loss, so the GOP primary is now down to three candidates: Trump, Kasich and Texas […]

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Earth to Francis: Heal yourself

Monday, September 21, 2015

As regular readers know, I’m not a big Pope Francis fan. He’s better than his recent competition, but that’s not saying much. Anyway, this sort of set my head spinning in disbelief: Havana (AP) — Pope Francis met with Fidel Castro on Sunday after urging thousands of Cubans to serve one another and not an […]

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They really will never learn

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

I've made it clear that I'm not excited about the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency. It's not at all clear the country can survive four to eight years of rule by Wall Street. Since, when all is said and done, the Street owns both parties, it might even be better for the country if […]

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The End is Near

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Introduction. I’ve been working on this post off and on for a while now. It’s not really ready for prime time, but I decided to put it up in its immature state because the debt ceiling charade we’ve just witnessed demonstrates very conclusively that I’m right, and I want to appear somewhat prescient. Also, I’m […]

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Bigots anonymous

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

According to Mother Jones, the Supreme Court is about to lay the groundwork for handing corporate America yet another weapon in its continuing campaign to complete its hostile takeover of America, once again in the name of free speech. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Doe v. Reed, a case from Washington […]

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Jim Amann visits

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Well, if Groton is any indication, Amann is not much of a draw. Granted, our Town Committee attendance is often dreadful, but we pretty much hit rock bottom tonight. I believe we had about 11 people in attendance, not counting Amann and his retainers. Even I sort of felt sorry for the guy wasting his […]

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Still fun to beat this dying horse

Sunday, December 21, 2008

This morning’s Times has a post mortem on one of George Bush’s many failures: the housing crisis. The Times credits Bush with genuinely wanting to increase home ownership. I refuse to do that, since I don’t think he’s ever actually wanted to improve the lives of ordinary people. He has done what needed to be […]

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The Third Worldization of the United States

Monday, June 2, 2008

The Third Worldization of the United States Is In Process and Well Along © Robert Roth – May 7, 2008 The U.S. and its economy may be said to have been in a process of “Third Worldization” for some time, from a variety of perspectives. One of the more striking, to me, is the fact […]

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Bush: Just like Churchill, except without brains, common sense, or an understanding of history

Sunday, July 8, 2007

A word to the wise: Beware of any newspaper article in which it is asserted as fact that George Bush reads books. Case in point, a Washington Post article (Alone Yet At Peace), reprinted in the Day this morning. This is not the worst of the Bush hagiographies that have been inflicted upon us by […]

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