“On one side of the scales you’ve got a ticket made up of two people with troubling attitudes towards the financial sector. On the other side, you’ve got maybe fascism. They are not even remotely of the same weight.” The Democratic … [Read more...]
Archives for July 23, 2016
W. Roxbury pipeline protests: Six chain themselves to pipes
This thing is not going away ... First, take note of Karenna Gore's op-Ed today on the Globe. She was arrested a couple of weeks ago protesting the West Roxbury Lateral pipeline, and gives a very nifty précis of the community, regulatory, … [Read more...]
PESSIMISM VS. OPTIMISM
In accepting Hillary's Clinton's call to serve as Vice President today at a Miami rally, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine shone a moving light onto his soul that was anything but boring. Growing up as a Jesuit educated social justice Catholic … [Read more...]
“Donald Trump: the madman in his castle”
An entertaining opinion piece in The Guardian by Ben Fountain ("Isolated from power, the Republican party has turned inward and driven itself insane on a toxic mix of fear and rage. Trump is its natural figurehead") features this from … [Read more...]
Clinton chooses Kaine
Wisely? NYT's most relevant para: Ultimately, Mrs. Clinton, who told PBS that she was “afflicted with the responsibility gene,” avoided taking a chance with a less experienced vice-presidential candidate and declined to push the … [Read more...]