Per The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times, filthy sodomites are engaging in bestial marriage acts in the satanic state of Connecticut, aided and abetted by Jesus-hating judges.

Quick, somebody call the Mormons! Can't you just see the hate for Jesus dripping from these fiends?

Back in reality, congratulations to the State of Connecticut, and there specifically to my friends Richard and Ed and Ann and Jemetta, whose enduring partnerships put most straight marriages I'm familiar with - 50% divorce rate, my friends - to shame.

"Hillary Clinton can't win a national general election". This is conventional wisdom among people who know about these things. As is so often the case with the conventional wisdom, this assessment is based on a very rich and consistent amount of data, collected and analyzed over years.

It stands to reason, however, that she also has loyalists; given that New York is her present base of operations, they're rather thick on the ground here. These loyalists rather recently were giddy over polling results showing her able to just break over the 50% hurdle in a national election. I said at the time that this was an announcement bounce, in a very customary and well-known pattern.

And so it was. Polling data released earlier this week and month shows Hillary losing New Jersey, and barely holding New York and Connecticut. Read on.  read more »

The 'Connecticut for Lieberman' party has been taken over by outside activsts, reports The New Haven Independent.

Lest one think that this is just as meaningless as would be loose talk of the integrity of Senator LieberSchmuck, note that CfL has a guaranteed ballot line in the 2012 elections, because the party prevailed over Democrat Ned Lamont in November.

The occasion was the second organizational meeting of the Connecticut for Lieberman Party, the vehicle created to propel Connecticut's junior senator to a general election win in 2006 after he lost the Democratic primary to anti-war challenger Ned Lamont. Lieberman created the "party" to have a line on the November ballot. Then he forgot about it.

John Orman, a political science professor at Fairfield University and a longtime outspoken Lieberman critic, contacted the Secretary of the State's office to legally join and then take over the abandoned party, which has a guaranteed ballot line in the next Senate election. Orman came to a Milford Howard Johnson hotel Thursday night with a tall agenda to make the party a soapbox for political theater and Lieberman criticism.

Snip. There's more.  read more »

Torrington, Connecticut

For normal people, Christmas is a one or maybe two-day holiday. For me, by virtue of having married into a vast Italian-Irish family, it is a weeklong, inescapable frenzy, and I am beginning to buckle under the strain.

Again, normalcy, the way things should be. You have dinner on Christmas Eve, unwrap presents that night or the next day, get drunk on eggnog, done. Finished. Move on.

We, that is hubby and myself, don't do that. We set out, this year, on Friday. We are still here, midway in our peregrinations to visit, it seems, every single individual in North America with whom hubby shares even the tiniest sliver of DNA. And at every stop along the route, the ritual continues: god-awful music - I am ready to exhume Bing Crosby and burn the remains - too much food, too much drink, too much too much too much. We do this death march by rental car; at last checking, the damned thing had recorded over five hundred miles of travel. This is not, emphatically, the way things should be.

And we're not done yet. The agony continues.

Torrington, Connecticut

Hallelujah. I have WiFi, coffee, cigarettes, and a hangover - in short, life on the road is beginning to take on the familiar trappings of home.

So how is the War on Christmas developing?

Interestingly, flags in Connecticut today are at half mast; this because, presumably, the state has again had casualties in the real war, the one that republicans started in Iraq. Local television coverage this morning announced another such death; a young Marine was killed in Afghanistan, where we're losing as well, it seems.

Also on television, and elsewhere: there's a new war going on in Africa, and since it involves Islamic extremists, needless to say, we'll be involved in some way.

There's another war going on here: the Wal-Mart war on American prosperity. Torrington used to be a thriving, prosperous mill town. You can see just how rich this town used to be when you see their magnificent municipal library, an elegant sandstone jewelbox from the nineteenth century. Now, of course, the industry that nourished this prosperity has withered away, and hasn't been replaced.  read more »