A week ago, <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/12/23/will_foy_save_the_t/">Charles Chieppo had an op-ed in the Globe criticizing plans for MBTA rail expansion to Medford, Newburyport, … [Read more...]
Archives for December 30, 2005
Health Care hilarity
Ezra Klein points us to this take on our crap American health care system from a Canadian; it's damn funny -- honest......which then links to this, which is also damn funny: "Panexa -- ask your doctor for a reason to take it." … [Read more...]
Illegal wiretap forum on Jan 4
Rep. Ed Markey has just annnounced an "Emergency Town Meeting on the Bush Administration's Program on Domestic Surveillance," otherwise known as "Bush's Illegal Spying program."The forum will be held In Lexington on Wednesday night, Jan. 4 … [Read more...]
A tale of two leaks
(Got a new verse, or an improvement on what's here? Drop it in the comments.)There once was an agent named Plamewho Karl Rove considered "fair game."So Bob Novak, our hero,showed integrity zeroby shamelessly outing her name.Once … [Read more...]
Simon Schama Looks Back at the Noughties
Columbia University historian, and Brit, Simon Schama has offered a provocative early history of the 00s for The Guardian. He writes in part: "But if, for the hell of it, we can imagine an oracular, though fully digitised, historian a … [Read more...]