Question: Have you no sense of decency? Answer: Can I think about that?
It is difficult these days to mark a low ebb in politics. We stand on the shore and watch as the tide goes out and out and out, and then...
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Chuck Radda
- Jan 9
- 4 min
Business as usual; danger as usual.
Today marks a week since an NFL player from the Buffalo Bills, Damar Hamlin, died on the football field and was quickly brought back to...
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 21, 2022
- 3 min
His only desire was to right the ship, but Gerald Ford may have left a legacy we can do without.
In the 1980 film Airplane, the Lloyd Bridges character says to a concerned female passenger, "Your husband and the others are alive, but...
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 19, 2022
- 3 min
You can't go home again, but you can stop by.
This past Friday, I had the pleasure of participating in an event called Learning Adventure Day at the high school in Plainville, where I...
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 11, 2022
- 3 min
A British comedy about a flawed doctor underscores America's healthcare failings.
Doc Martin, recently concluded its decade-long, somewhat disjointed, but consistently entertaining run on various television venues. Like...
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Chuck Radda
- Dec 6, 2022
- 2 min
The Deplorables, Part 2: two million Americans can be wrong.
Ever since Hillary Clinton had to walk back her use of "deplorable" to label Trump supporters in 2016, all of us never-Trumpers have been...
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Chuck Radda
- Nov 29, 2022
- 3 min
The Deplorables have been replaced by the Delusionals, and we are no better for it.
After every mass shooting, Republicans and gun nuts (you won't need a Venn diagram to see the overlap) have complained ad nauseam about...
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Chuck Radda
- Nov 22, 2022
- 3 min
Club Q, Jeopardy, and the struggle against hatred.
I don't have much to do with the LGBTQ+ world. I'm retired, and since I'm no longer in the workforce, my interactions with people occur...
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Chuck Radda
- Nov 6, 2022
- 2 min
When political candidates are reduced to caricatures, there's no room for decorum or humanity.
Exploiting tragedies is nothing new for politicians. One can easily point to the proliferation of anti-gun sentiments on the left after...
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Chuck Radda
- Oct 30, 2022
- 3 min
The passing of two musicians—fifty years apart
My Uncle John gave me music lessons when I was a child. Piano, clarinet, he was proficient in both (and more) and worked hard at his...
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Chuck Radda
- Oct 20, 2022
- 2 min
Republican candidates can deny, disavow, and renounce Donald Trump, but they will never escape him.
If you visit fifth congressional district candidate George Logan's web page, you will find endorsements from practically every Republican...
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Chuck Radda
- Oct 12, 2022
- 2 min
Oh, Ye of little sense and less humanity!
Paris Hilton, who was at one time only "famous for being famous" (a Times reporter noted) has joined a campaign to shut down an abusive...
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Chuck Radda
- Oct 11, 2022
- 3 min
The Courant–a day late and a dollar short–and a dollar more
The words Courant and current sound the same. The similarity ends there. The Courant, which, in 2020, began printing in Springfield and...
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Chuck Radda
- Oct 5, 2022
- 3 min
Tax cuts and small government remain the bedrock of the Republican party.
The message is seductive, but historically the result is always the same: a later tax increase to resore all those "unnecessary" cuts....
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Chuck Radda
- Sep 17, 2022
- 4 min
The Animal World. In Praise of the Kangaroo Court; In Condemnation of Snakes and Weasels.
Alex Jones belongs in jail. Make it happen, judicial system. Yes, I'm talking to you, those of you educated and trained to ensure the...
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Chuck Radda
- Sep 1, 2022
- 3 min
On knowing when the game has ended: an honest surrender to my evangelical friends
Dear anonymous evangelicals who voted for Trump, You won. You don't have to vote for him anymore. __________________________ We should...
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Chuck Radda
- Aug 29, 2022
- 3 min
In Finland, March 19 is Equality Day; in America, August 26 is Women's Equality Day
Both need some retooling. If you have access to the N.Y. Times online, be sure to read yesterday's piece by Maureen Dowd. In it she...
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Chuck Radda
- Aug 27, 2022
- 4 min
There's a case to be made for making the case
Most of us have lived our entire lives without the FBI raiding our homes. It's not luck: it's just that we're not criminals. When Richard...
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Chuck Radda
- Aug 24, 2022
- 3 min
"A League of Their Own" doesn't really have one.
I shy away from entertainment reviews because I have squandered more than my share of time on TV series and movies of questionable merit....
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Chuck Radda
- Aug 20, 2022
- 3 min
The "Great America" of the MAGA herd—When was that?
You can't have a movement without a slogan, and even though MAGA sounds a little too much like maggot for my taste, apparently, Trump...
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