Exploring Connecticut College’s crime stats for 2011
Just as I did last year, I thought it would be interesting to take a critical look at this year’s anual security report. For those who don’t know, after the passage of the 1990 Clery Act, all schools receiving federal aid are required to record and release information concerning crime in and around their respective campuses. Connecticut College falls [...]
David Brooks’ Weak Criticism
Sometimes, reading David Brooks is like banging my head against a wall. In today’s New York Times, Brooks has an Op-Ed titled “That Other Obama.” The essay is his response to President Obama’s attack on Paul Ryan’s budget. In classic Brooks style, he first stakes out what he believes is a moderate position; in this [...]
Family Institute of Connecticut outlines disgusting 2012 agenda
When the Family Institute of Connecticut takes a break from making bathroom jokes or mocking dead transgender people, one can find them causing all sorts of unnecessary hoopla. They released a rough outline of their 2012 agenda to their email supporters yesterday and, it basically keeps of their age-old tradition of making socially progressive legislation sound over 9,000 times worse than it [...]
No, welfare recipients should not be drug tested
It’s an election year, so I guess that it makes sense that right-wing nonsense is going viral: “URINALYSIS Shouldn’t you have to pass a urine test to collect a welfare check, since I have to pass one to earn it for you?” My answer to the question? No. To begin with, is there any evidence whatsoever that [...]
Republicans versus innocent Chinese citizens
Republican Pete Hokestra is running against Democrat Debbie Stabenow in Minnesota for senate. Despite both voting for the original $700 Bush bailout and trillions of dollars of deficit spending, the Hokestra campaign released this unbelievable advertisement: While Hokestra has the right to spend absurd amounts of money on racist ads that run during the Super Bowl, he’s hardly the only [...]
M.I.A. raises a good point – censorship is unnecessary
Alyssa Rosenberg got it right last night: People apparently want to know if I have thoughts on M.I.A. flipping the bird at the end of her verse. So here they are: I think it’s exactly the kind of bland, predictable, wannabe-controversial-but-utterly-predictable-and-meaning-free thing she would do, and as such, essentially unworthy of notice or comment. She expounded on this [...]
Watching the Tea Party Fall to Pieces
It’s been about three years since the Tea Party first emerged on the scene, and the air of invincibility the far right has had in the last few years is finally starting to show some cracks. Now, before any conservatives have a stroke over that sentence, let’s look at the current political climate. Mitt Romney [...]
Gov. Dan Malloy announces plan to legalize selling alcohol on Sundays!
WTIC-TV: BREAKING: Governor #Malloy officially announces proposal to allow liquor to be sold seven days a week. CT Mirror: Aside from the convenience of being able to shop on Sunday or as late as 10 p.m., consumers could see lower prices for alcohol, one of the products for which Connecticut long has had a “minimum [...]
Political red herrings and GPA redistribution
Every now and then, a Republican friend of mine will post some ridiculous shit on Facebook, prompting me to debate whether I should respond to it. I decided against it for the following video, but it did raise an excellent point about political analogies: I was going to write a gigantic rebuttal, but YouTube useroriginalindigodingo already [...]
The Continued Trampling of Civil Liberties
In the absurdly prolonged run up to the 2012 elections, the media has been chock full of stories about the continuing Great Recession and who has the best plan to reverse the frightening downward spiral of the American economy. As often happens in such a tense domestic political landscape, less attention has been paid to [...]
Obama is NOT going to purchase Kate Hepburn’s house – but he should
I spend roughly half of the year in Old Saybrook, CT. It’s quiet, relatively safe, and I have few problem about the town. (My biggest complaint is the intrusive, rude, and unprofessional police department. But, I digress.) In this small community, rumors of Barack Obama purchasing property in the borough of Fenwick. However, theseare unfounded: [...]
Connecticut Primary Season Information
While Connecticut’s primary season gets less press than, well, most other states, it is still important for voters within the state to have as much information as possible. Taken right from the Hartford Courant, here are all of the important dates for voters within the Nutmeg State. Source. I have bolded the critical dates. Also remember [...]
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