“There doesn’t have to be bloodshed…”

One of the anti-government protesters is dead and eight others were arrested in the Oregon wildlife refuge stand-off that was into its third week. This has stopped being about doofy dudes whom people were sending sex toys to. Dave Ward, a sheriff there, says there doesn’t have to be more bloodshed. Lord, I hope not, but Cynical …

When we end homelessness in CT…

…it will be in no small part because of people like Aldene Burton, who was killed last week in Hartford. I wrote this for Mother Courant.

Maurice Eastwood, revisited

Maurice Eastwood is a CCSU senior who organized a basketball tournament in Hartford recently that was interrupted by gun fire in which a man who’d come to watch basketball, James “Jay” Headen, was killed. I wrote about it here. Now Eastwood has set up a Go Fund Me account for the family of the man, …

I cannot let the Duggars go

That benighted family owes me nothing: No. Thing. But the story of Josh Duggar’s sexual abuse of children  strikes every chord for me. That the show may have been cancelled doesn’t mean squat to me. I am listening, as I type this, to old-time gospel music on Pandora, which I never do because it makes …

Come be a part of something bigger than you

There’s a candlelight vigil from 6 to 7 p.m. today on the north side of the State Capitol (the side facing Bushnell Park) for Deah Barakat, 23, his wife, Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister, Razan Abu-Salha, 19, the three University of North Carolina students who were shot and killed last week in their home …