Blogs
Read the Bill
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 01/17/2006 - 12:44Today, in Branford, Rafael DeGennaro launched ReadtheBill.org.
Read the Bill is a new organization which advocates that all federal legislation should be posted online 72 hours before coming to the floor of Congress. I've been helping Rafael a little with the website and I'm very excited about its launch.
In my discussions with him, I've also suggested that we should be advocating for this not only on the Federal level, but also on the State level, and perhaps even on the Municipal level for large municipalities.
I hope that everyone stops by and reads a little bit about ReadtheBill.org.
Random Stuff
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 01/16/2006 - 14:36It has been nearly a week since I’ve put anything up on the blog, and a lot has gone on. It has been pretty busy. So, let me talk a little bit about the blog posts and other stuff I didn’t get written that I wanted to, and may yet show up in some format or another.
“Driving my eldest daughter to college” As many of you know, my eldest daughter is a sophomore at Mary Baldwin College. She is fifteen and participating in their Program for the Exceptionally Gifted. I wanted to talk with her advisors and professors to see that we set things up so that she can get the most out of the experience. One of the problems is that she looks at the college catalog and says, “I want to take all the courses”. So, we may juggle things so she can stay an extra year and do something like a double major and a triple minor, or something like that and fit in more of the courses she wants.
Happy Epiphany!
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 01/10/2006 - 14:53I don’t remember exactly when I learned that word, but it was a real epiphany to me. I remember reading “Chekhov on the West Heath” by Denise Levertov. She writes about young girls during World War II:
The war is simply
how the world is, to which they were born.
They share
the epiphanies of their solitudes,
I remember reading Helen Keller’s The Story of My Life where she talks about the epiphany of language, coming to understand that the touches of her teacher on her hand meant something.
CT BloggerCon 1
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 01/06/2006 - 16:18Last night, various bloggers from around Connecticut gathered at Drescher’s in Waterbury. It was a small gathering that got off to a late start due to some ceremony for Waterbury Police Cadets. One blogger even joined in briefly via cellphone IM. The gathering was dominated by liberal leaning political bloggers from along the coast, so much of the discussion centered around the Governor’s race, and the possibilities of a U.S. Senate race.
There was a discussion about the upcoming Democratic Town Committee Caucuses. Greenwich, Torrington, and Canterbury have news of their Caucuses up on the web. Stratford also supposedly does, but their website seems to be down right now.
Competition and Cooperation
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 01/04/2006 - 16:18Recently aspects of competition and cooperation as it exists in our media, in our politics and in our daily lives keep recurring in discussions I’m in. I think this is a very important part of the political dynamic that should be explored.
At a holiday party, we got into a discussion about television shows years ago and today. Do any of you remember “Then came Bronson”? IMDB describes the pilot this way: “Jim Bronson is a young newspaperman who quits his job following the suicide of his best friend, and sets out on a cross-country trip on his motorcycle in his quest for the meaning of life in which he befriends a runway bride, another searching soul, in this pilot for the TV series of the same name.”
