"Angry residents pelted utility crews with eggs as they tried to restore power in Bridgeport, Conn...."

"... after the mayor claimed the local power company had 'shortchanged' the state's largest city as it tries to recover fro...

The Connecticut Supreme Court finds a right to same-sex marriage.

WaPo reports.

"They think we’re a cult. People think we should be home playing 'Grand Theft Auto.'"

Kids build a Wiffle ball field on public land and — invoking the favor of adults who value old-fashioned fun — stand their ground when the ...

"Bromide Obama, filled with grand but usually evasive eloquence.... Then, in a blink, ... small and concrete... like a community organizer..."

I didn't link to this nicely written column by David Brooks a few days ago because it was behind the TimesSelect wall, but here it is r...

The view from Route 10.

The Connecticut River, which draws the line between Vermont and New Hampshire, seen from the New Hampshire side.

Last night at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Here 's what happened at my law school last night, at an event I avoided: An emotionally charged group of hundreds of students, faculty ...

A benevolent law plays out unfairly in real life. Surprised?

Here 's a story about how statutory law is forcing Old Greenwich, Connecticut to oust a family who has been operating a coffee stand for...

"The Internet is an environment. You can't be addicted to the environment."

That's one position. The other is that internet addiction is a big problem: "The Internet problem is still in its infancy," s...

Attorneys Against the Ban....

... is a new group opposing the proposed amendment to the Wisconsin constitution that would ban marriage and "substantially similar...

75% of Connecticut Republicans back Lieberman.

And even Lamont has more Republican supporters than the Republican nominee, Schlesinger. Anyway, overall, Lieberman is polling at 53%, with...

Should Joe go?

Jonathan Chait is telling Joe Lieberman to give up: In a perverse way, conservative Republicans and liberal doves have a shared interest in...

Lieberman's loss.

Congressional Democrats are backing Ned Lamont, and Republicans have a chance to say things like "It’s an unfortunate development ... ...

How to be apolitically political.

And while I'm sojourning at Throwing Things, let me note this adorable post , where, because they're a pop culture blog, they can...

"The sort of movie that plays best when you stumble across it on cable."

I'm clicking through the Rotten Tomatoes reviews of "Leonard Cohen -- I'm Your Man," and this "Short Takes" one ...

"Rape Gurney Joe."

There's some new terminology in the demonization of Joe Lieberman. I saw it first today in this post at Firedoglake, complaining about ...

"It's absolute Democratic cannibalism."

Fighting Joe Lieberman from the left. (The quote is from John F. Droney, a former Democratic state chairman in Connecticut.) A growing cast...

"I think the proudest thing I have done on the bench is not allow myself to be chased off that case."

Said Justice Scalia , referring to the demands that he recuse himself in a case that involved Dick Cheney because he had gone on a vacation ...

"By 2008, the blogs are going to be so institutionalized, it's not going to be funny."

The NYT quotes Markos Moulitsas in an article about how the political parties are trying to figure out and take advantage of blogging. Kos ...

"Splits within the party about what it means to be a Democrat."

Adam Nagourney writes about the difficulty Democrats running for Congress are having finding a coherent theme: These scattershot messages r...

Rallying against Justice Souter.

The Boston Globe reports: Activists who want U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter to pay a personal price for ruling New London, Conn., c...