Update: I'll be vlogging the Edwards gig back in Portsmouth tomorrow so look for my vlog on the Town Hall event here in the next couple of days if you can't get up to see it. And as far as reposting, I won't be doing that here at BMG, this … [Read more...]
Archives for December 28, 2006
Romney vs. Tutu
Derrick Z. Jackson has an excellent column on the selectivity of homophobia among some evangelicals and politicians, including an anti-homophobia rebuke by some notable people of faith:The tone of affirmation in South Africa had been set … [Read more...]
I was on NECN tonight.
... on NewsNight with Jim Braude, opposite conservative lawyer Dan Kelly. We talked SJC/legislature/SSM, John Edwards, Deval Patrick's budget restorations. After I watch it myself, I may have further comment. I hope I didn't mis-paraphrase … [Read more...]
Agricultural Policy Can Make Farms Economic Engines
In Massachusetts, meetings of ag leaders must begin to include the mantra of economic development in the discussion. Farmers desparately need central and satellite Ag Innovation Centers to provide business planning, source very … [Read more...]
Sen. Wyden’s Proposed Healthcare Reform: another gap between theory & real world
The Healthy Americans Act is a bill being introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon.Executive Summary (excerpts):The "Healthy Americans Act" (HAA) establishes a centrally financed system of private health insurance for all Americans except … [Read more...]
Bush’s Torturers
The article continues:But obscure CIA-funded behavioral experiments, outsourced to the country's leading universities, produced two key findings, both duly and dully reported in scientific journals, that contributed to the discovery of a … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas from Eternal Forces
The Fisher article continues, "The product has been selling in those [Wal-Mart] stores," according to spokeswoman Tara Raddohl. "The decision on what merchandise we offer in our stores is based on what we think our customers want the … [Read more...]
What if the SJC had decided Goodridge differently?
We would be stuck with a Constitution that denied basic human rights to many people. We would be legally powerless to change that fact. We would be told our only recourse was to vote dozens of legislators out of office -- or else to keep … [Read more...]
Why I have less respect for Ford than when he was alive.
From Bob Woodward's 2004 interview with Ford, embargoed until yesterday:Describing his own preferred policy toward Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Ford said he would not have gone to war, based on the publicly available information at the time, and … [Read more...]
Effective Metaphor for public schools?
Joseph Featherstone, a social historian, speaks about schools as society's 'theater,' the large stage on which our major cultural sagas are enacted and opportunities and casualties of social change are most visible and vivid. We look … [Read more...]