This and that

Random thoughts from a random thinker

REASONS FOR OPTIMISM

January 29, 2021
I was talking to a friend the other day about racism.  He is pessimistic and discouraged.  He understands now how deeply embedded racism is in our culture and how difficult it will ...
Continue Reading

Trump Brought Out the Anti-Racist in Many of Us

January 22, 2021
By way of background, I read Mark’s blog on white supremacy and then wrote him an email suggesting that while he was correct, he was missing an important piece of the larger ...
Continue Reading

THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN

January 15, 2021
For weeks, over and over, people said the election was stolen. Many of us have been baffled by such assertions.  How can so many people honestly believe the election was stolen when ...
Continue Reading

STEFANOWSKI

January 8, 2021
Give Bob Stefanowski credit for getting one thing right:  Connecticut’s cities have major problems.  Other than that, this guy who seems to still want to be Governor of Connecticut is clueless or ...
Continue Reading

THE NEXT NEW WORLD

December 18, 2020
Our country was founded on a simple but profound principle:  That free people will build a new world, a better world.  There was no way that the Founding Fathers could have known ...
Continue Reading

RACISM ISN’T A POLITICAL PROBLEM

December 11, 2020
We should get one thing straight: Racism is a cultural problem, not a political problem.  Racism isn’t about Democrat and Rebublican, and it isn’t about passing laws to fix racism. Racism is ...
Continue Reading

IT’S TIME TO LISTEN

December 4, 2020
I find I keep having the same conversation with people.  It’s a conversation about the great divide in the United States, the gulf between right and left, the seeming impossibility of agreeing ...
Continue Reading

IF YOU WANT TO END RACISM AND STUFF YOU GOT TO SING LOUD

November 20, 2020
And that's what it is, the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacree Movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar With feeling. ...
Continue Reading

Get The Latest News From Hartford Today and Tomorrow

Share your email address to get the latest stories delivered straight to your inbox.

Browse Historical Archives

2025: Archives

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

Author: Mark Korber

Mark Korber is a semi-retired curmudgeon who can’t quite stop practicing law. He is known to his friends to have an opinion on most anything and to express it, in detail, to anyone who shows the slightest interest. He writes about regionalism, Hartford, family and the Buffalo Bills.

Start typing and press enter to search...

Scroll to Top