Miscellaneous takes on the day's news.
Civil unions are ten years old today. Meanwhile, the platform of the Montana Republican Party supports a legal prohibition on homosexuality. (If you follow the link you may have a hard time finding it: it's in the section on “Crime”.
Republicans' line of attack on Elena Kagan: Thurgood Marshall was a dangerous radical. Meanwhile, Kagan explains to the gentiles on the Senate Judiciary Committee what their Jewish friends are doing on Christmas.
Furthur can't play in Vermont but John Tesh can? There's something wrong with that.
GMD regular Nate Freeman has an op-ed piece for Deb Markowitz in today's Free Press.
Is this part of an anti-GMD plot?
Finally, Chittenden Bank is changing its name to PU? Is this rebranding smart or “stinky”?.
Or was Ed simply parked while intoxicated and managed to hit a moving vehicle with his stationary one?
Isn’t that where Bullwinkle went to college?
…has, in my experience, anyway, deteriorated since Peoples bought it out. I’d been planning to change banks as soon as I could scrape enough money together, but this has certainly hardened my resolve. I realize that all that was left of the old Chittenden was the name, but you have to question the business savvy of a company that acquires a quintessential “Vermont” brand name and then trashes it — IN Vermont! Poorer customer service + no interest in the advertising value of VT traditions = time for a new bank.
A while back now, First United Bank bought the naming rights to one of the big sports venues in Philadelphia, which became known as the First United Center. And the always-tasteful Phillly sports fans, of course, immediately began referring to it by its initials.