Congratulations to the Boston Police for identifying and arresting Philip Markoff, a second-year medical student at Boston University who tomorrow will be charged with the murder of Julissa Brisman. He appears to be the same psycho … [Read more...]
Archives for April 20, 2009
So Much for One Country, Indivisible
This is for anyone who thinks the Ron Paulists of the world are sane. The country elects a fairly moderate, black President and Ron Paul's talking about succession and how "American" it would be to divide the union. Hmm... … [Read more...]
What the Internet Was Made For
Singer for sure. Dare one speculate, future political blogger? Dream a dream. … [Read more...]
Obama plans credit-card push
Word out is Obama is going to do something about the "credit card abuses" as part of looking out for the little guy while rebuilding the nation's financial system." It's about time and is something I wished Bush and Clinton had done during … [Read more...]
Excellent debunking on homosexual marriage
Just caught this youtube video and thought it excellent: (h/t Ed Brayton) … [Read more...]
Story In Todays’ Globe Has Life Lessons
Kudos to Globe correspondent J M lawrence for this awsome story. So many themes can be found in this slice of life playing out in Quincy over the last 63 years. What makes it great is that it is not all that unusual. Especially in a country … [Read more...]
Civilian Flaggers
The audit found the Executive Office of Transportation relied on a "one-week snapshot summary period" during peak construction season to conclude that replacing police details with flaggers would save between $5.7 million and $7.2 million … [Read more...]
Sunday’s Blog Gathering Notes and Thanks
We talked about a huge number of issues, ranging from the netroots workshop at the state convention to future BlogLeft activism and events. In terms of the convention, we spoke about having an intro that was slightly shorter than last … [Read more...]