NYT on a documentary directed by Sebastian Junger, who got his start on fame at a Gloucester bar, about the longest war in our 234-year history -- Afghanistan -- that will open soon: The battle-hardened approach to depicting the current … [Read more...]
Archives for June 21, 2010
Cahill urges MA Nuke, Expanded Offshore Oil Drilling, Opposed Cape Wind
Wow. Tim Cahill is really going hard for the Tea Party "Drill, Baby, Drill!" anti-evidence based power of magical thinking team. Someone should tell the man he's running in a general election, not a Republican primary or special election. … [Read more...]
Half a Century, Under the Whip
From Alan Grayson on Daily Kos: For the past half century, the military-industrial complex has perpetuated one war after another, at enormous cost in both blood and money. In its lust for oil, it has broken country after country, and now … [Read more...]
Savannah Marine Gaybashing Protested in Boston
Cronauer and Stanzel are confined to their base as the investigations proceed. Marine Corps spokesmen have tacitly defended the assailants by parroting their "gay panic" rationale for the violence against Daly, and trivializing the … [Read more...]
Introducing the Massachusetts Corporate Political Accountability Act
Now, for-profit corporations may spend unlimited amounts to influence elections at all levels of government. The danger is real: if ExxonMobil had spent just 2 percent of its 2008 profits in the last presidential election, it would have … [Read more...]
At Black Tie Ceremony, Feith Passes Torch To Barton
Respect to your great place! and let the devil Be sometime honour'd for his burning throne. -- Duke Vincentio, from William Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure". There are probably some of you who are thinking: "That Feith name is familiar, … [Read more...]
Five Reasons for Opposing Expanded Gambling in Mass. — Reason #2
In the first post of this series (http://tiny.cc/BMG-Reason1) I suggested why expanded gambling is more appropriately described as economic cannibalism, and not economic development. In this post I want to suggests at least one … [Read more...]
Where’s the focus? Where it always has been.
Ezra says a lot of what I've been thinking:... insofar as liberals focus too much on Obama, the appropriate criticism there is not that they're too interested in the president or too bullish on government's ability to plug … [Read more...]
B.P. History Backgrounder
A useful article over the weekend about the history of BP from Lawrence S. Wittner, Professor of History at the State University of New York/Albany on the History News Network (his latest book is Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the … [Read more...]
Oily Apologies vs. Clean Energy Momentum
It is yet another big week for clean energy. The President is having a group of bipartisan senators over to discuss how to get a clean energy bill moving that addresses the source of the gulf spill. One guy who won't be attending is … [Read more...]