Dirigo, I am from Mass, too, and am familiar with Conn, so yup, I know what you mean.

ondelette,

So this is what got me going in the first place. The notion that one dare not say the least thing, enforce the least regulation, demand the least accountability against these absolute thieves and greedy felons unless one has every i dotted, every t crossed, has never jay walked, never worked on Sundays, always said sir, ma'am, face washed teeth brushed, hair and coat all brushed and neat, otherwise, gee what a disappointment you are! How we wish you could have had the character!

Blumenthal is squeaky clean so we have a shot? Is that the way the rule of law is supposed to work? Is that what probable cause is all about? Is that how warrants are given out, how SAR's are used, how the government decides on prosecutions?

It is indeed unbelievable that it has come to this. When Glenn wrote about Spitzer's downfall here, even we had some posters who didn't seem to have any sense of proportion about the "crime" of Spitzer and the crimes of the corporations, and were going on about the wife, the sleaziness, etc., of Spitzer, and leaving the criminals he was after, and the huge repercussions of their actions, out of the argument.

So yeah, here we all are, hoping that Blumenthal is a completely undersexed dude, whose favorite TV show is Mythbusters, who spends all of his spare time helping out at a soup kitchen with his wife, and who, since puberty, has never, never ever, been alone in any room with any woman or man of questionable reputation, any nonrelated child, or any animal large enough to have sex with.

And Battlestar Galactica is no Prisoner.

Please.

You ANGRY filthy unserious hippy Salonistas had better listen. You and the traitor Brickley Paiste.

This is "Complain," from his best-selling album, Free Wheelin' Bob Roberts.

Some people will work.
Some simply will not.
But they'll complain and complain and complain and complain and compla - ain.

Some people must have.
Some never will !
But they'll complain and complain and complain and complain and compla - ain.

Like this: "It's society's fault I don't have a job.
It's society's fault I am a slob.
I have potential no one can see.
Give me welfare. Let me be me!"

Hey, Bud, you're livin' in the Land of the Free.
No one's gonna hand you opportunity!

"I don't have a house. I don't have a car.
I spend all my money getting' drunk in a bar.
I wanna be rich. I don't have a brain.
Just give me a handout while I compla - ain."

Or this: "I wanna stay in bed and watch TV.
Go out weekends in a limousine
And dance all night takin' lots of drugs
And wake up when I wanna."

Hey, Bud, you're livin' in the Land of the Free.
No one's gonna hand you opportunity!

Some people will learn.
Some never do.
But they'll complain and complain and complain and complain and compla - ain.
Yeah, they'll complain and complain and complain and complain and complain.

the "reader of this blog who has been regularly bombarding the Public Editor over these anonymity issues." Those of us who read this blog and ask what kinds of things we can do to effect change might follow this person's lead in making his or her voice heard.

Dirigo, thanks for the updates on Blumenthal's probe of AIG.

Thanks for the Walken Twitter link, Glenn--it had me roaring. That guy always seems to be on a slightly different trajectory than the people he is with, and he may be the only person in the world that can make perfect use of the Twitter format. Btw, these tweets of his seemed apropos:

A nice young man pointed out that I misspelled "World" in my last post. I'm amused that he noticed; sad that he was moved to action by it.

I've only just now found the "Replies" area here in Twitter. Some of you people are bat shit nuts. Most of you aren't though. I prefer that.