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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Readers of this blog may want to know that I've joined the staff at Daily411. Come on over and join the fray. Monday, October 24, 2005
From today's Altercation: Right about the war, but um, “second–rate.”Although I certainly have no place in the aforementioned illustrious group, I nevertheless would like to take credit for having the kind of "second rate mind" they possess. For those who've depended on this blog to acquire the latest Connecticut opinions, I encourage you to bookmark Colin McEnroe's new blog. He says many of the things I'd be commenting on—only he says them appreciably better. More echoes of Vietnam. Eager to demonstrate success in Iraq, the U.S. military has abandoned its previous refusal to publicize enemy body counts and now cites such numbers periodically to show the impact of some counterinsurgency operations ...Now that the Iraq fiasco is evident, the Bushies will grasp at any straw to demonstrate that some progress is being made. Surely, the conviction that there's a light at the end of the tunnel cannot be far behind. (I realize that this post kind of gives the lie to the previous post, but the similarities between Iraq and Vietnam in this story are so palpable that I couldn't resist.) Sunday, October 23, 2005
This blog, which really began as a cry in the dark against a foolish and unjustified war, has usually been fun to write. Lately, though, it's become a bit of a chore as I find myself saying the same things over and over again. It seems to me that the mainstream media and/or previously cowardly politicians have finally gotten a little gumption and come to reasonable conclusions regarding topics I've blogged about—specifically:
Since this is the case, I'm going to be taking a break from the blog. I assume I'll chime in every so often with "a slightly skewed view of the world," but I'm finding that with the big news of the day—Plamegate, the Miers nomination, the DeLay arrest, etc.—being discussed so much better by Digby, Marshall, Legum, et al, that my two cents really are worth just about that. I have to admit, though, that blogging has been a heck of a lot of fun and really has allowed me to keep up with the news of the day in a much more detailed fashion than I have in more than thirty years. Friday, October 21, 2005
I know that he hasn't been inappropriate with his players, and I know that an investigator has just cleared him, but Jack Cochran is still a scumbag. An investigator for the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference reported Thursday she found no evidence that New London High School football coach Jack Cochran recruited players.The last paragraph is probably the least surprising. Cochran has always placed himself above the law or policy, and eventually it'll spell the end for him. He's still being investigated by various entities—including the state attorney general. It may well turn out that recruiting players will be the least of his problems. Thursday, October 20, 2005
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
The entire blogosphere is atwitter over the published story that Dear Leader knew of his brain's involvement in the Plame leak in 2003. If this is true, then our president would be shown to be—horrors!—a liar. Not surprsingly, Josh Marshall has the best early take on the ramifications of the story. Tuesday, October 18, 2005
In case anyone had any doubt, here's the smoking gun: Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers pledged support in 1989 for a constitutional amendment banning abortions except when necessary to save the life of the mother, according to material given to the Senate on Tuesday.This surely is no surprise, is it? It's with a heavy heart that I note that General Motors Corp. reached a tentative pact Monday with the United Auto Workers union to reduce its healthcare costs by about $3 billion annually as the automaker unveiled plans to sell control of its profitable financing arm to raise cash ...I know it's simplistic to yearn for the old days when labor unions had some clout and a giveback such as this one would never have even been imagined, much less countenanced. Nevertheless, while this agreement may be what's good for General Motors, it's certainly not good for the country's workers. Meanwhile, more servitude is evident as [a]lmost a quarter of the state's National Guard troops - about 1,000 in all - will be deployed in the next few months, most of them heading to Afghanistan, state Guard officials say.Of course, we're assured that while "1,000 is a pretty formidable number," [according to] Maj. Gen. Thaddeus Martin, leader of the state's Guard ... "We'll be OK with regard to being able to cover our state missions."Are we to understand, then, that the state's National Guard is overstaffed? This seems hard to believe. At any rate, given these two stories, it certainly seems as if the oligarchs have won. |