Capitalist dogs at the Yankee Institute are soiling the beautiful tapestry of the worker’s revolution. Isn’t this what Still Revolutionary is all about?
Too dark and creepy for me, but I still like the idea.
Don’t be fooled by our snow-less winter. Fifth graders at Duffy School in West Hartford have a project for you: adopt your neighborhood fire hydrant. Sydney Anderson and Grace Faenza report:
We would like to continue to mark hydrants and recruit people to clear hydrants
next winter and beyond. “Helping the community is one of your biggest
jobs in your life,” said Grace Faenza a Duffy student who is excited
about going to Aiken on the 31st. If you would like to adopt a fire
hydrant and clear it of snow in the winter contact you local
elementary school and they will send you a certificate. For more information contact
Clare_Taylor@whps.org
These kids want you to stand up for fire hydrants!
Yale grad Marina Keegan, who died in a car crash on the Cape over the weekend, wrote this for graduation:
We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life. What I’m grateful and thankful to have found at Yale, and what I’m scared of losing when we wake up tomorrow and leave this place.
1. Will Dan Malloy make an endorsement in the volatile 5th District? I doubt the gov would risk this one, though it offers the sort of sweet political payback that Dannel Malloy might not be able to resist.
2. Interesting that the two Republicans with the best chance at knocking off a Democrat — Chris Shays in the senate race and Andy Roraback in the 5th — both agree to limited tax increases in return for substantial budget cuts.
3. Dan Roberti is making a good case for the 2012 vanity-run-for-Congress award. A nice, genuine young man, but running a homeless shelter in New Orleans doesn’t quite make you qualified for Congress.
4. Is it time for Chris Murphy to retire my mother-grew-up-in-public-housing-in-New-Britain line? What does this tell us about Murph’s qualifications for U.S. Senate?
5. Now that WWE has decided to make a Big Deal out of whether WWE Classic was porn or raunch or a little of both, Linda McMahon is going to have to respond to the topic. What kind of political numbskull is advising this woman? Her campaign for the U.S. Senate was looking pretty savvy until this trainwreck.
7. Among the four Democrats destined to cruise to victory in the state’s Congressional races, give Joe Courtney credit for pushing an issue that actually affects his constituents — the cost of college loans. Proposing a stamp that you can’t even use on a letter isn’t political leadership, Mr. Larson.
8. Somebody needs to tell John Rowland that the busway CTfastrak is actually going to happen, no matter how much you try to use it to attract listeners for your radio show.
9. Is there a more transparently phony grab for votes than Chris Donovan’s push for special session action to increase to the minimum wage? Connecticut already has nearly the highest minimum wage in the land. Shameful.
10. Score one for Malloy: the governor will be joined by U.S. Education Sec. Arne Duncan and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten in a school reform lovefest today.
This one is easy for you politicos …
The Linda McMahon/WWE campagin still can’t shake those old images, like pictures of a raunchy college party forever preseved on Facebook. They’re not the McMahon/WWE of today. But they’re part of the history that we’re supposed to be evaluating, aren’t they?
In a miscalculation of astounding proportions, Team Linda/WWE has decided to pick a fight with the media over exactly what all that wrestling playacting really was. The company says that was the old and the new WWE is 100 percent TV-PG. Maybe so, but that doesn’t make the raunch off limits.
In the wake of new threats of legal reprisal against Journal Inquirer editor Chris Powell, I asked Republican Chris Shays, McMahon’s opponent in the August GOP primary, what he thought the old WWE was. He urged me to decided for myself.
So decide for yourselves.
Stan Simpson tells me that Stefan Pryor joined him for his show this week:
Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor talks on “The Stan Simpson Show” about Connecticut’s new reform bill — and whether he has the autonomy to fix the state’s lowest performing schools. He is later joined in the program by educator/author Armand Fusco, a longtime critic of Connecticut’s past reform efforts, which he has deemed fraudulent. You can watch the interview at ctnow.com/stan
An editor told me I’d better check out the revival of the Surf Hotel. It’s a good story.
BLOCK ISLAND, R.I. —The green rocking chairs will be back on the front porch.
Then there’s the rhubarb sauce that must be a part of breakfast, like the board games and the Victorian furniture in the lobby. And yes, Room No. 13 — the one in the corner that looks out on the harbor — will be ready for the requests that are certain to come.
Unexpectedly, the creaky old Surf Hotel, with its folksy habits and sacred customs, has come back to life.
In the wake of a WWE executive threatening legal action against Journal Inquirer editor Chris Powell, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate Susan Bysiewicz jumped into the fray over what Linda McMahon’s family business sells, repeating a comment she made during a debate this week:
I’ll be darned if I let someone who sells sex and violence and pornography for a living be our next United States senator.
