Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres tied the knot in a small home ceremony Saturday. The ceremony was attended by 19 guests, including DeGeneres' mom, Betty, and de Rossi's mother, Margaret Rogers, who had flown in from Australia, … [Read more...]
Archives for August 17, 2008
Mass. League of Environmental Voters Senate Endorsements
For senate, they endorsed: Douglas Belanger, Second Worcester Ken Donnelly, Fourth Middlesex Rep. James Eldridge, First Middlesex Senator Susan Fargo, Third Middlesex Rep. Jennifer Flanagan, First Worcester Senator James Timilty, First … [Read more...]
McCain’s Legislative Record On the Environment
First, what does his fellow Republicans say? Check out the video, it might surprise even the staunchest McCain supporter. Even Republicans don't know of anything he's done to help the environment or the energy situation in the … [Read more...]
The Great Opening and Denver
An interesting piece this week in the Colorado Springs Gazette commented on what I call The Great Opening: the effect of improved communications, especially the Internet and blogs, to reduce the insularity of our political discourse. In … [Read more...]
Saying what WE want
Al Gore's WE campaign has been pretty vague so far, a call for pan-ideological Kum-Ba-Yah against climate change. The problem has been that it's been 90% Kum-Ba-Yah, 10% about the climate crisis. This ad is better:Yes, … [Read more...]
The Underdog: Orozco v. Brown
The two candidates are, like the two parts of their district, ideologically split on almost every issue. With such a clear-cut distinction, in one of the few competitive races in the state, you might imagine that Democrats and progressive … [Read more...]
Got questions for John Kerry? He’ll be in Boston on Monday! (Update: Event Postponed)
John Kerry is campaigning around the state, known as "Kerry on your Corner" stops and will be stopping by Boston on Monday (possibly in the evening....to be confirmed and updated tomorrow morning with time and place hopefully). However, the … [Read more...]