How can we even begin to speculate on why State Rep John Ryan R- Darien is retiring from the House this year, or why Marilyn Robinson has filed papers to run against Larry Cafero R-Norwalk when the “poop story” hit the national wires on a slow news day. Slow news it is though, but here’s something mildly interesting, apparently there’s an issue this year about whether old political lawn signs can be used in new campaigns. From the blog o’ Ken Dixon:
Not much else in the news today, so today’s musical guest is Garbage, and today’s video clip from youtube. The comments as always are yours for the commenting, unless its about crime. Today I will delete any reference to crime in this thread.
Okay, yesterday was Earthday, and today is warm and sunny. Much too much stuff to do and soak in some sun to be blogging all day. So you are all on your own here to talk abotu whatever else is going on that you need a thread for. Post if you want a single topic thread and I’ll start one up.
Only yesterday I was musing on how long things to accomplish in government. Time be a relative thing. So when I read about the Blockbuster Circuit City proposed merger, I couldn’t help but put that in the perspective of convergence time.
This is a video clip of about an hour, about the middle class. It’s riveting in part because most of the time when economic studies are done, they typically focus on the answering policy solutions to some of the more intractable problems in society. Think the decades long war on poverty, and all the social programs it spawned.
Elizabeth Warren chose to focus on the two parent, two child household, and compared (adjusted for inflation) the economic reality of a typical 1970 family versus the same family demographic in 2002. This is a single generation, your parents versus you essentially.
Ha, it seems I’m not the only one who favors messing with those automated pollsters:
According to results of a survey by the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute in Fairfield, people aren’t always honest when it comes to the subject of polls. The results, culled from interviews with 800 people nationwide, asked participants their thoughts on polls.
Election polls about candidates in particular drive me bonkers, for those I reserve special answers, especially when they all call within a one hour period on my mobile phone and block out their caller ID. The annoying exchange typically goes like this:
Tired of the same old donkey and elephant political party symbol? Then pick another animal. Or ice cream flavor. Good design meets “I can’t get no satisfaction,” which reminds me that the Norwalk Maritime Aquarium IMAX theater is running the Scorsese Rolling Stones concert movie.
I kinda like the penguin, it’s that whole open source thing, but jelly fish just looks cool.
