LESSONS TO BE LEARNED FROM THE TRIBE OF DAN What sly whisperer offered you this choice that you have chosen? Was it like finding a long lost idol made of precious metal you could not resist? Now your true treasure lies unprotected … [Read more...]
Archives for January 28, 2010
Dear Gov. Patrick – Replace Reville
Dear Governor Patrick, A mistake ignored is not a mistake corrected. I urge you to move immediately to rectify the ongoing injustice that exists as a result of the approval of the Gloucester Community Arts Charter School. Secretary Reville … [Read more...]
Barney Frank in Davos
Bloomberg today: Brian Moynihan, Oswald Gruebel and Josef Ackermann, leaders of some of the world's biggest banks, met during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to plot how to reassert their influence with regulators and … [Read more...]
Matt Taibbi body checks David Brooks into the boards
Very amusing, if you enjoy this sort of thing. Brooks in a recent attack on "populism," which he has intriguingly defined as taking umbrage at $16 billion in bonuses at Goldman Sachs (your tax dollars at work). Political populists never get … [Read more...]
Governor Patrick’s Balanced Approach to Our Structural Deficit
As one of the long time community activists organizing to strengthen our neighborhoods and our communities through the Coalition of Social Justice and the Coalition against Poverty in the various South Coast cities and towns, I can tell you … [Read more...]
Hope You Didn’t Have Dinner Plans With J.D. Salinger
Damn, my dinner parties will never be the same. The guy was a social animal. … [Read more...]
Rep. Lynch rips Geithner a new one
First BMG PAC recipient: Rep. Lori Ehrlich!
Yes, that moment is finally here to designate the first recipient of BMG PAC funds. We've had in mind several role-model legislators, the kinds of folks we'd like to support with our PAC. As our organizing document … [Read more...]
Okay, where’s all the money for the DDS community system?
Where is the rest of the promised $85 million, or at least $45 million, for the community system? All the community system gets next year, after Fernald is shut, is a measly $2.7 million increase???If I were a member of … [Read more...]
Obama’s Weak Rights Brew
Moreover, if the Prez was committed to civil rights, he would have called for states to pass same-sex marriage legislation. He would have pushed to overturn Pres. Bill Clinton's disgrace, the Defense of Marriage Act. Certainly, Obama … [Read more...]