It took nine years but finally, a buyer has appeared for this Sherwood Farm home

14 Sherwood Farm Lane, recently asking $3.145 million, reports a contract. It started off in 2009 at $4.875. It’s a great house, custom built by one of the town’s best builders, but it was designed for a couple with grown children, and their needs dictated a layout that isn’t particularly family-friendly. The original price didn’t help its prospects, due to this development’s falling values, and the combination of wrong price and idiosyncratic layout kept this house on the market far longer than I’d have expected.

Nothing that can’t be corrected, and the buyers will have a solid base to modify to their taste.

Bidding war on Maher Avenue

No. 6 Maher, asked $2.295 million, got $2.345. Not much (decent) inventory in that price rage.

Just one of many of these stories

Twitter shuts down James Woods, 1.7 million followers, because “it might affect the election”. Gone unsaid is that Twitter’s concerned that it might affect the election of Democrats.

Riverside contract

122 Cedar Cliff Road, last asking price $3.995 million. One of brother Gideon’s listings, but, like Gideon, I knew the owners well, and spent months here house sitting during my bachelor days, while the (late) owners toured Europe and other parts of the globe, and many nights playing nickel-ante poker games on its deck overlooking the Cove when our host was home. Truly a spectacular site.

My guess is that the house itself will not survive: though it’s a wonderful home to live in, the price of the land it sits on far exceeds the structure’s value, and that doesn’t bode well for its future. But someone is getting a wonderful place to build new.

The NYT sinks further into the abyss

Judge Kavanaugh coached his girls’ basketball teams, and you now what that means.

I didn’t leave the New York Times, the New York Times left me; several decades ago

Democrats move to disqualify every single future Republican candidate for office

Announce intention to disqualify Kavanaugh for drinking and partying in high school. I suppose there are some future candidates out there who didn’t party in high school, but I probably wouldn’t want them to represent me. It’s been rumored that a few Democrats are known to have misbehaved in high school too, but, they’re Democrats.

My advise to young teenagers: if you must drink or attend rowdy parties, register as a Democrat just as soon as you turn eighteen.

Hey, it worked for Obama and his high school band of pot smokers, “The Choom Gang”.

Another Hawaiian high school student

Co-Chairman of the Democrat Party: women can make up claims of sexual abuse

So says Keith Elison, responding to two separate allegations of sexual abuse.

The fact that the Congressman is a black muslim surely has nothing to do with his fellow Democrats’ deafening silence on this matter. “You just can’t trust women”, Senator Dianne Feinstein told FWIW.

Bill Clinton was unavailable for comment.

"No problem", says Grassley, "we'll come to you".

Dr. Ford’s latest excuse for not appearing before Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday: she has a fear of flying, and would have to drive across the country to get there.

I hitchhiked from Greenwich to California in three days in 1970 when I was 16, but I suspect Judge Kavanaugh’s accuser thinks it will take from today until at least a day or two past November’s election before she can arrive in Washington.

The Republicans should just end this bullshit and vote to confirm tomorrow, but Grassley has taken a more politically-savvy approach, and says the Judicial Committee will fly west to accommodate the liar.

Well of course she was — besides being named "Snochia" at birth, she was a woman who thought she was a man

Snowman, chia pet, no weenie — the result was inevitable

Maryland woman who killed three, wound three others was mentally ill, cops say.

Gender dysphoria is a clear sign of mental illness, and this lady had it.

““I just started talking about [being transgender],” Moseley wrote in a Facebook message from December 2016, according to The Baltimore Sun. “My sister is totally supportive, my brothers already had an idea, my mom I haven’t gotten around to admitting it to yet. but she’s heard about it somehow.”

She also chatted with Coley about starting hormone treatment.”

Initiated in 2009, this foreclosure case may finally be drawing to a close

1 Widgeon reports that a short sale is “pending”. That should mean that the lender has agreed to a proposed purchase price (last ask, $1.and because short sales are subject to no contingencies, this long, drawn-out drama will, probably, conclude soon.

I have complete sympathy for homeowners who run into financial disaster, and were I in such a situation I would fight tooth and claw to keep my family in our home. That said, there should probably be a better way to handle foreclosures than the one Connecticut has devised.

Foreclosures in California and Florida take about six months to complete. That speed certainly inflicts great hardship on defaulting borrowers, but it also clears up the housing market: those states with speedy foreclosure processes recovered from the 2008 debacle quickly, those who don’t, didn’t.

This particular foreclosure began in 2009. Two-hundred-plus motions later, judgements of foreclosure entered and reopened, the house is finally being sold off, allowing the lender’s assignee to recover part of the money due. I don’t hold any particular sympathy for the plaintiff here: it probably paid pennies on the dollar to whatever entity first extended the loan, but still and all, nine years to complete a pretty simple matter: money loaned, secured by a mortgage, loan defaulted on. Our civil court docket is clogged with cases strung out by both plaintiffs and defendants, depending, with the result that litigants with legitimate grievances must wait years to have them addressed. “Justice decayed is justice denied:”, some wise man once declared, and I agree.