Monthly Archives: September 2011

Excuse the (now edited)  language, but this woman is actually running for President? I don’t really care whether a candidate thinks cavemen rode dinosaurs – seems silly to me, but what does it really matter? When Bachmann spreads her fear and … Continue reading →

Glenn Reynolds: when the country trusts its military more than its politicians, it’s probably not good. Frankly, I’m with the majority – can you pols please get your act together while I’m away?

I’m planning on checking out for a month on Friday and leaving this blog in the care of my brother Gideon and my boss, Frank Farricker. The results should be hilarious. I’m hopeful that they’ll mostly write about real estate … Continue reading →

TSA officials arrested in Stamford, UPDATE: More here.  

Mariners who saved many, many lives on 9/11.

Don’t know what any of this means, but  UConn Law provided an excellent edukasion and I’m told (not that they would have had me) that the undergraduate school has an honors tract (track? A special program, anyway)  that is absolutely … Continue reading →

$150 million Medicaid fraud exposed.

Governor Malloy is calling for a more aggressive program by CL&P while Greenwich has the most restrictive policy in the state. I’m not sure that we need to follow the Malloy plan, which none of us has seen (well, he … Continue reading →

People who can’t afford medical care die. Well hell, we all die – what right do I have to rob your pocket to  linger a few more years?

Come on, doesn’t this more accurately reflect what we have coming to us?

No CEO , stock’s down 44% this year.

Oddly enough, I believe this was the first record album I ever owned. Never, ever did I think it would prove the perfect dirge 45 years later.

No pictures of people jumping from the WTC, no happy Palestinians dancing in the street, but we do have the NYT’s Paul Krugman saying it’s all our fault.

Way down the creek from me there’s a house under construction that I made fun of it awhile ago, claiming that it looked like a collection of flying saucers and barn silos, or something like that. The architect’s vision is … Continue reading →

NPR is broadcasting live from the World Trade Center and is now moving to the Pentagon. UPDATE: I missed President Obama, but I’m positive that he did the same thing other politicians did: brief readings: Ex-Prez Bush read a lamentation … Continue reading →

The NYT writes today on an upcoming Supreme Court case on this issue. The lower federal courts have split on the issue but my two favorite conservative judges, Kozinski from the Ninth Circuit and Posner from Chicago (as well as Douglas … Continue reading →

I try very hard to believe in a benevolent, forgiving God, and I have many personal reasons for that faith, particularly the parable of the Prodigal Son, but I will never understand, in this lifetime, 9/11. UPDATE: Yesterday, I wrote … Continue reading →

14,000 rounds of M-16 ammo missing. I know what a box of 100 rounds of  .22 ammunition looks like, so I figure I’d notice 14,000 large-caliber cartridges if they showed up at home but with Cobra, who knows? Isn’t the Army … Continue reading →