When I flip through the Globe (or click, as it were) I tend to focus only on the "National", "City and Region" and "Opinion" sections.I sometimes forget how much important news is covered in the "Business" section of the Globe. Aside from … [Read more...]
Healey borrows from Tom DeLay’s playbook on judges
Today's Herald reports that Republican Gov candidate Kerry Healey has called for a new "review board" that would have the power to recommend the removal of judges from office. A constitutional amendment would be required to give this … [Read more...]
The Reality of Green Rainbow Party Candidates
First of all, having been Jill Stein's running mate in 2002, our vote total would NOT have been enough to change the outcome of the election. Shanon O'Brien blew that election all on her own. Second, the "spoiler" argument assumes that … [Read more...]
Cafeteria Catholics
Unlike Liberal Protestant denominations,Catholicism is theologically dogmatic.Not that Liberal Protestant groups like ECUSA Episcopalianism,UCC Congregationalism or much of ELCA Lutheranism aren't dogmatic, but they tend to be … [Read more...]
Verizon DSL stands for “Disconnecting: Sorry, Loser”
I'd just like to say that Verizon DSL is really really unreliable. You pays your money ($29.95/month after the introductory offer) and you takes your chances. It "delivers" the internet like Newman on Seinfeld delivered the mail ... slowly … [Read more...]
More establishment self-congratulation from the Globe
So, after Scot Lehigh's paean to business-y insiders who cut the health care deal, and Steve Bailey's three cheers to "Salesman" Jack Connors of Partners Healthcare, now we get front-page, above-the-fold treatment of the guys who are really … [Read more...]
anatomy of a deranged squirrel(‘s argument)
"'Kerry did not have a single message that resonated with married parents,' the scholar Barbara Dafoe Whitehead wrote after the 2004 election. 'He opposed the right to parental notification for minors' abortions, condoned partial-birth … [Read more...]
LG February Money: post-caucus food coma
Silbert:Receipts: $44,645Expenditures: $26,268.44Net: +$18,376.56Murray:Receipts: $50,062.02Expenditures: $36,172.53Net: +$13,889.49Goldberg:Receipts: $44,387.50Expenditures: … [Read more...]
Surprise! Romney dismantles State House operation, beefs up campaign
The Herald called it a little over a week ago: Julie Teer, at present Romney's State House spokesperson, will leave her state-funded job and move to Romney's CommonwealthPAC that is serving as his presidential campaign operation. Teer … [Read more...]
A Modest Proposal for Health Care Reform
It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in … [Read more...]