(note: the following does not apply to lefties) This has been irking me for sometime now. I think it is the result of a-holes visiting Europe and then thinking they're F. Scott Fitzgerald or Madonna. Add that to television's love affair … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2016
Heroin
Most Ohio and Pennsylvania counties that flipped from Obama to Trump are wracked by heroin. To my fellow Democrats who still blame the recent loss on an basket of deplorable racists, bigots, misogynists, xenophobes, and so on. … [Read more...]
WARNING: SATIRE AND CALL FOR CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE LURKING WITHIN
There are a lot of hysterical people out there today, jumping up and down, waving their arms and whining about fascism. The Cassandras talk like the election of Donald Trump to the presidency is the end of democracy, the end of … [Read more...]
GOP Congress wants to watch the world burn, “salt the earth” behind it
They are not popular. But they have power. And they'll use it. The GOP congress wants to use a Gingrich-penned law to roll back Obama-era regulations on overtime rules, corporate taxes, and, of course, greenhouse gas emissions. Here's … [Read more...]
Would you like to shed light and air onto Pres-elect Trump’s finances? Read the “how to” in this post
If you want to support Senator Elizabeth Warren's request to audit President-Elect Trump's finances for conflicts of interest, the woman who answered the phone at the Comptroller General of the Government Accountability Office said the most … [Read more...]
Cyberterrorism
The CIA's report that the Russian government http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-cyber-russia-idUSKBN13Z02Q has conclusively hacked into the United States electoral process is Cyberterrorism … [Read more...]
Translating Baker’s “Living within our means”
Charlie Baker made some anodyne statement when he took out his pen and cut a bunch of programs that particularly help poor people: “My belief is we are not only obligated, but the people of Massachusetts expect us to live within our means, … [Read more...]
Ranked choice voting: wrong for Massachusetts
Now that Maine has voted to embrace ranked choice voting, there is a move to bring it to Massachusetts. Unfortunately, this is a solution in search of a problem, and our problem is far different than Maine's. Maine's problem is they … [Read more...]
Holiday Party in Westborough – Democratic Dispatch Information
You are all invited to the holiday party at my house on Sunday. It's a holiday open house and a great chance to meet fellow BMGers from across the state. The event goes from 2 pm to 6 pm at 17 Gary Circle in Westborough on Sunday, December … [Read more...]
21st Century Watergate
Tapping phones and breaking into physical campaign and party offices is so old-school. Tonight, the same paper which did the best known reporting on the Watergate scandal broke news that it is the consensus of the intelligence community, … [Read more...]