Suzanne Langlois is an architect by day, working in Connecticut. By night she is a writer. She is currently working on a collection of stories, based on field journals from Bagdad and Kossovo entitled "Midnight Football." She is a keeper of small beasts.

Blog Entries by Suzanne Langlois

While You Were Out -- A Little Pink Memo to Senator Lieberman

Posted December 15, 2009 | 01:06 AM (EST)


Senator Lieberman, since I am not able speak to you in person, I'd like to leave this little pink memo ... perhaps one of your staff would be kind enough to pass it along to you.

This week I've called Senator Lieberman's Washington office several times, to no avail. Admittedly,...

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Joe -- We Know Where You Live.

5 Comments | Posted November 19, 2009 | 11:29 AM (EST)


"If the public option is in there, as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote ..." -- Senator Joseph Lieberman
Senator Joseph Lieberman is the rarest of creatures, a political Chimera. Joe calls himself an Independent, caucuses with the Democrats...
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Miracle On Pennsylvania Avenue

2 Comments | Posted September 30, 2009 | 01:48 PM (EST)


Are we out of time? Has the health care reform, promised to us by Barack Obama in last year's campaign, died the death of a thousand paper cuts?

From where I sit, the president started the whole process with the $80 billion give back to Big Pharma. The...

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Pitchfork Toting Townsfolk Menace Fortress Aetna

Posted September 29, 2009 | 12:02 PM (EST)


Hundreds of health care reform rallies took place across the country last Tuesday, in a co-ordinated National Day of Action. I attended such an event held at the world headquarters of Aetna in Hartford Connecticut. Judging by the police presence assembled at the entrance of the grand promenade leading up...

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Game On

1 Comments | Posted September 11, 2009 | 01:27 AM (EST)


"You lie!" An economy of words, but a liberality of message.

Thank you Joseph Wilson. Last evening, your socially inappropriate phonic tic put a fine point on the bare knuckle brawl that has been raging in the public square. The representative from South Carolina acquitted himself in a style that...

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The Many Flavors of Kool-Aid®

4 Comments | Posted September 4, 2009 | 12:17 PM (EST)


Last night I went to a town hall meeting in West Hartford, Connecticut hosted by first district representative the Honorable John Larsen. I planned to sit in on the health care reform debate inside the auditorium, but the real story, from my perspective, was outside on the granite steps of...

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The Rise of the Dick Armey, the Summer's Biggest Blockbuster

8 Comments | Posted August 10, 2009 | 05:05 PM (EST)


The Democrats are in power, leaving the Republicans plenty of discretionary time to make their own special brand of mischief. The Tea Parties of last April, as silly as they seemed, were the first shot across this administration's bow.

The silver haired granny who disrupts your town hall meeting...

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Sleepy Little Connecticut: The Tip of The National Health Care Reform Spear?

4 Comments | Posted July 23, 2009 | 05:01 PM (EST)


Within walking distance of the corporate headquarters of a half dozen of the Titans of the insurance industry, on Monday afternoon the Connecticut State Legislature delivered an override of Governor Jodi Rell's veto of the landmark, comprehensive health care reform legislation, known as the Sustinet Bill.

The most...

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888 My private War with Hu Jintao

Posted April 10, 2008 | 09:50 PM (EST)


There are so many cleverly crafted, sparkly items on offer. The prices, so low they confound my internal "price to value matrix." Then I see the gnat track sized letters MADE IN CHINA and I drop the item as though it might spontaneously combust in my hands.

So it...

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