Serious topic, but BMGers will find this amusing…
Patrick’s web site took some heat last week for attracting its share of the goofs who prowl the internet. But the thing about the web is, there’s real food for thought amid the fruits and nuts. Here is a thread from Blue Mass Group where Patrick is exhorted to seize the bully pulpit and take a more visible role in addressing the Boston gang crisis.
And you conservatives claim you get no props!
(Center Aisle, I know, I know — you’re a centrist. Which I thought I was…until I read you!)
Keller’s entry is worth reading.
One of the governor’s girls wanted to go see Fifty Cent in Manchester, N.H., and daddy, could you please get tickets and drive me and my friends up? He could, but while the daughter figured he’d go do whatever it is old people do for two hours before returning to pick her up, it seems Dad was acquainted with the show’s promoter, and watched Fiddy perform from the wings.
I’ve got a tape of what Deval said somewhere, and I’ll try to give you precise quotes in a future post. But the gist of it was, he was appalled at the misogyny of the music and the performance, repulsed by the coarseness of it, angered by the way he felt this demeaned and degraded women and the thought of its impact on young girls and boys.
It was eloquent. It was moving. It was sincere. There was no disagreement from the girl. Staffers. They seemed thrilled that a politician was actually addressing something real in their lives with courage and candor. It was Deval Patrick, potential leader, at his best.