Sometimes I think America is the proverbial child-star-gone-bad of nations: we have a crippling addiction, but we still won't go to rehab. We are hooked on burning dirty fossil fuels like cavemen, and no matter how many times we … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2010
The politics of the be mean to immigrants amendments
Even those like the ever so kind Senator Barry who said as quoted in the State House News Service Sen. Berry said, A lot of people worked long and hard on this. There's a lot of people being let down here. I see no reason to rejoice. I … [Read more...]
Why I voted to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
I grew up in a military family and have a deep respect for the dedication and service of the men and women in our military. As a member of the Armed Services Committee, I believe it is unconscionable that we have a law that kicks highly … [Read more...]
Tenth Anniversary of the Democratic Dispatch
THE START: The Dispatch started as the e-mail list for people who were organizing the regional group in the Middlesex and Worcester Senate District. The group officially formed in late 2000. But according to a line in the 2004 Dispatch, the … [Read more...]
Tim Cahill: From Desperate to Despicable, Document the Atrocities
Then again, if I were Tim, I would want to turn the attention from pay to play and patronage to something else. Where's the outrage? Why is this the first post about this? And let's not forget that Charlie Baker piled on … [Read more...]
State Convention RIde Board
In order to promote car-pooling to the State Convention, I am creating a thread with the intention that it can be used as a "ride board." With the cost of gas and parking, it makes sense to share rides. Now I don't have much … [Read more...]
Deepwater Horizon: the results of G.O.P.-style laissez-faire capitalism
A trio of broader points that have struck me about the B.P. disaster: 1. This is what the Republican Party's central economic ideology -- "government is the problem" -- looks like in practice. Corporations, by law and practice, care only … [Read more...]
Senator Tisei – Contradictions abound
In the name of being absolutely sure that undocumented immigrants cannot collect unemployment benefits, Senator Tisei filed an amendment to require that everybody filing for those benefits "prove" citizenship when they apply by going to an … [Read more...]
They’re Baa-ack!
We are hosting a Phelps-A-Thon to counter Fred Phelps' hateful message. For every minute the "God Hates Fags" clan is protesting, we will be collecting donations to benefit the Boston Latin School Gay / Straight Alliance club. The … [Read more...]
Failures all around
Going forward, we need to overhaul our regulatory framework and bring an end to the era where big oil companies call the shots at our expense. We also need to ensure that BP is held accountable for this disaster and pays every dime it owes … [Read more...]
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