Brian Lockhart of Hearst Newspapers catches up with Richard Blumenthal's good friend, Chris Shays, who says he never told the New York Times that he heard Blumenthal specifically say he served in Vietnam.
Courant colleague Rick Green also weighs in on the Shays-Blumenthal brouhaha.
And speaking of interesting reading, check out Colin McEnroe on the wide gulf between what the D.C. chattering class is saying and what Connecticut voters think.