Archive - Feb 2006
February 6th
The Super Bowl Beer Primary
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 02/06/2006 - 10:27(Cross posted at My Left Nutmeg)
Kim is doing scheduling for the Lamont campaign and I'm going to be very involved with the online part of the game, so we ended up having a weekend talking with people about Ned's campaign around the state.
In particular, I want to highlight a Super Bowl party we went to Saturday in Greenwich. I know a lot of people think of Greenwich and think of the palatial estates in the back country, but there is another side of Greenwich too. The party we went to was in a small apartment in downtown Greenwich.
February 5th
The rebirth of Democratic Politics
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 12:04Are we seeing a rebirth of Democratic politics in the United States? I think so, I believe so, and I will do all I can to help make this happen. I’ve been reading Robert Putnam’s, Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community. His portrayal of the collapse of American community, especially as it relates to the political process is disheartening.
Yet more recently, The Pew Internet & American Life report on The Strength of Internet Ties provides a more promising outlook. “The internet and email aid users in maintaining their social networks and provide pathways to help when people face big decisions”. One such big decision can be deciding to become involved in the American political process.
February 3rd
Ned Lamont at Norwalk DFA Meetup
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 02/03/2006 - 12:03
Thanks to David Stevenson, here is one of the pictures from Ned Lamont's visit to the Norwalk DFA Meetup
February 2nd
The Lamont Local
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 02/02/2006 - 10:25(Cross posted at My Left Nutmeg)
Yesterday, I had the honor of being Ned Lamont’s driver as he went to the Greenwich and Norwalk DFA Meetups. It helps that my wife is helping out in Ned’s campaign office and that she is also helping run the Greenwich Meetup.
Greenwich hasn’t had a Meetup in quite a while, and various people wanted to get the Meetup going again. There were probably about fifteen people that showed up, and Ned gave his proto-stump speech. He spoke about being a newspaper reporter up in Vermont when he was young, and learning to ask the hard questions. He spoke about building his own business and how he had to use those same questioning skills in building the company and he spoke about how our elected officials have not been asking the sort of questions that needed to be asked at the start up of the Iraq war or during confirmation debates in the Senate. He was well received, but I needed to whisk him off to the Norwalk Meetup so there wasn’t a lot of time for discussion.
February 1st
The Dream Dozen
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 02/01/2006 - 16:44Last night, I tried to keep Alito’s confirmation, the death of Coretta Scott King and the impending State of the Union address in perspective. So, Kim and I watched an episode of West Wing from the DVD set I got her for Christmas.
It got me thinking, what will everyone do when the final season of West Wing is over. Commander in Chief never caught my attention, and I’m told it is going off the air anyway. What to watch?
Well, it seems to me that we need a new series, “The Dream Dozen”. It could pick up where The West Wing leaves off. It could mix in a little bit of the reality TV shows, whether you are thinking American Idol or The Apprentice. It could add in a touch of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Desperate Housewives, and maybe even a touch of House for flavor.
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