Like all of us, I'm just trying to figure out how, and why Trump won, and what to do next.  But, unlike most analyses, I want to take an international angle, though. Sure, there's "Brexit" -- the surprising vote to leave the EU in … [Read more...]

In the wake of the most destructive 48 hours I've ever seen experienced by a presidential candidate, I propose a BMG project.  I would like to know of every Republican candidate in Massachusetts, incumbent or not: -For whom will you be … [Read more...]

Watching the convention tonight, I felt pulled back in time.  Sometimes it seems that many activists have one campaign that remains steeped in rose and gold, enthusiasm with no cynicism, adoration without suspicion.  For me it was Howard … [Read more...]

I'm sure you've seen this by now... Justice Ginsburg has come out guns blazing on Donald Trump as president.  In a recent interview, she opined  "He is a faker...He has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head at the … [Read more...]

I'm announcing a contest here and now, prize to be a couple rounds next time the winner and I are at the same watering hole.  (If we ever hold a Sammitsch outside of the immediate Boston area, all the better.  Progressives often forget that … [Read more...]

It is such a frustration to go shopping and encounter a hired gun, being paid to gather signatures to get a referendum question on the ballot.  (And hired gun is much nicer than the phrase in my head).  Bumped into a guy the other day … [Read more...]

For the first time in my adult life, I didn't decide whom I was backing for president until just last week.  I'd supported Clinton, Gore, Dean, Richardson then Clinton, and Obama for months before Iowa.  But 2016s was a tough choice. I … [Read more...]

I've read about some of the names bandied about for a replacement for the late Atonin Scalia, and am nauseated by repeated praise I see of Sri Srinivasan as a "pro-business moderate".   And that's because in our current climate … [Read more...]

Surprised not to see much discussion of this five days out from Iowa.  For anyone fortunate enough not to see the perversion of democracy that is Iowa, there is a significant rule that bears mentioning. And it means the forgotten Democratic … [Read more...]

There are two rival spectacles on the television tonight -- the State of the Union and the advertisement marathon for people who want to deliver not the next State of the Union, but the one after that.  The pageantry is delightful, based on … [Read more...]