If a Christian is one who turns his slapped cheek to the
slapper for more roughhouse, the American male is no Christian. We are more
like Lafcadio Wluiki, the hero of Andree Gide’s novel, “Lafcadio’s
Adventures.” Lafcadio keeps a small
knife handy, and whenever he is insulted, he stabs himself in the thigh to
memorialize the insult. Forgetting is forgiving. We are not braggarts. An
Ahmadinejad here would be laughed to scorn. But we know how to nourish
scorpions in our hearts. That we do well. And when the time is ripe, BANG goes
the stinger.
Marissa P. Gillett, the state's chief utility regulator, watches Gov. Ned Lamont field questions about a new approach to regulation in April 2023. Credit: MARK PAZNIOKAS / CTMIRROR.ORG Concerning a suit brought by Eversource and Avangrid, Connecticut’s energy delivery agents, against Connecticut’s Public Utility Regulatory Agency (PURA), Governor Ned Lamont surprised most of the state’s political watchers by affecting surprise. “Look,” Lamont told a Hartford Courant reporter shortly after the suit was filed, “I think it is incredibly unhelpful,” Lamont said. “Everyone is getting mad at the umpires. Eversource is not getting everything they want and they are bringing suit. It was a surprise to me. Nobody notified me. I think we have to do a better job of working together.” Lamont’s claim is far less plausible than the legal claim made by Eversource and Avangrid. The contretemps between Connecticut’s energy distributors and Marissa Gillett , Gov. Ned Lamont’s ...
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