In response to jimc, I would suggest that Kevin Drum speaks wisdom: Honest to God, Republicans must all be sitting in their back rooms and just cackling like hell right now. Think about it. They developed a strategy to hamstring the … [Read more...]
Archives for August 26, 2011
A modest proposal
It would be swell if, when you get to the bottom of a long page at BMG comments full of insight and badinage, there was a handy link back to the home page like there used to be. … [Read more...]
Tangleweird?
According to the National Weather Service, Hurricane Irene will be sitting directly atop Berkshire County at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday Afternoon. We're talking about a 75 mph wind and torrential rain slamming into Tanglewood's Koussevitzky Music … [Read more...]
Stay Safe, Be Prepared! (Tips for the Not-Panicked)
[Cross-posted. Edited for less-Lowell-centricness.] I am getting a lot of Irene in my Facebook feed, and some of it is complaints that the media is overdoing it, or that "you'd think it was the end of the world" for all the warnings and … [Read more...]
Time for the Next Choice
Cross-posted locally. If you had asked me, in 2008, for a list of items that would make me stop supporting Barack Obama, it would probably look like this, not necessarily in this order. - Failure to close Guantanamo Bay and/or follow … [Read more...]
MASSterList: Irene incoming – Patrick preps supplemental budget – Perry takes aim at health reform – Brown disavows Crazy tweets
STORM: Irene's coming (MassLive/Republican). The storm is forcing our elusive governor to make an appearance at the Framingham bunker today. But wait - a Patrick siting! (Globe) SUPP: Of course I kid, since the gov has been busy this … [Read more...]
Tragedy in Texas — natural and human
The drought in Texas is huge, long, and heartbreaking. It's been going on for many months; NPR had a couple of reports this morning, describing almost biblical suffering by cattle and wild animals, and the withering of the ranching industry … [Read more...]
My New Polls – Eric Ferhnstrom – Elizabeth and Deval – Scott Harshbarger – WITH POLLS
Guess what? David sent me a link to a site that lets punks like me make make their own polls. So i have two. One is serious. One is not. The serious one concerns Elizabeth Warren and Deval Patrick. Who has the better chance to beat Brown? … [Read more...]