h/t Dana Chandler, Jr. … [Read more...]
Archives for May 21, 2012
Why 47th in the Nation is not OK and What I Will Do About It.
In years past, as a member of the Commonwealth’s Executive Branch, I worked with the Governor’s Office of Administration and Finance while it created more than a dozen state budgets. It is a complex process. If you are not familiar with it, … [Read more...]
Political Genius: Obama assigns Romney the 1%
More evidence that Obama is the most gifted politician of our generation. Here he neatly transitions the entire Romney campaign, using their own claims, into an effort for the 1%, with him representing the remaining 99% of the … [Read more...]
Quick Guide to Proposed New Billboard Regulations (or Rather, Complete Deregulation)
As promised, here's a thumbnail of my epic post on the proposed new billboard regulations and how Massachusetts will soon go from having among the strongest billboard regulations in the country to among the worst. Enjoy! 1. We’re … [Read more...]
Does Scott Brown Actually Write Anything Himself?
[Cross-posted from the ProgressMass blog. Like ProgressMass on Facebook and follow on Twitter.] Republican Scott Brown holds what he frequently refers to as “the People’s Seat,” despite the fact that he refuses to meet with “the People” … [Read more...]
Obama minus filibuster
Dear lefty Obama haters/skeptics, or those convinced that the Democrats are worthless: Please consider this alternative scenario. Had the filibuster not applied, the United States would have a market-based system to control carbon … [Read more...]
Why we don’t have enough money for schools
More from the picture worth more than 1,000 words department. This graph is from the Sentencing Project with the red annotation added by the Transform Drug Policy Foundation. … [Read more...]
Reason vs. emotion: our divided brain
I've noticed some complaining about the dumb voters and how to appeal to them. I thought this would be a good time to introduce this lecture from TVO's Big Ideas show about the divided brain. Although it's more interesting than politics, … [Read more...]
Republicans approve $3.7 billion more for arms than Pentagon requests
Republicans in the House have approved a budget that allocates $3.7 billion more than the Pentagon is seeking. This just underlines the fatuousness of GOP claims that they are concerned with deficit spending and that the federal government … [Read more...]
Saving the Glavin Center comes down to one man
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) In many of the photographs that Rosemary Dumont has of her son Stephen, a red vertical wound can be seen at the top of his forehead, almost seeming to divide his forehead in two. That wound is the … [Read more...]