Months after Massachusetts voted for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary and, perhaps more important, three BMG editors and many, many BMG commenters endorsed the most qualified candidate for President, progressive champion Elizabeth … [Read more...]

Jay Fitzgerald of the excellent MASSterList ("an ensemble of news and commentary about the Legislature, Politics, Media, and Judiciary of Massachusetts from major news organizations as well as specialized publications") rejects Charley's … [Read more...]

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Borowitz: Trump: Mexicans swarming across border, enrolling in law school, and becoming biased judges SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA (The Borowitz Report)—Unless the United States builds a wall, Mexicans will swarm across the border, enroll in … [Read more...]

Jack Sullivan at Commonwealth Magazine's excellent Daily Download asks: But the bigger question is why do we keep animals in a manufactured habitat for visitors to gawk at? The question becomes even more central when, looking at depleted … [Read more...]

Controversial website Gawker proves it can be useful with this hair-raising investigation published last week. Now you know. Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has generated an unceasing torrent of press attention that some … [Read more...]

The Onion: The Arguments For And Against Bernie Sanders Staying In The Race FOR Mathematical impossibility of receiving nomination only reinforces status as outsider candidate More than halfway done cobbling together foreign … [Read more...]

Allowing baggers to drain public funds by polluting the state and forcing everyone else to clean up after them makes no economic sense. A plastic bag fee will cut clean up costs and better align expenses with costs. Good job, Senator … [Read more...]

The NYT orders itself a double shot of Obvious at the Journalism Bar with a news story that highlights failing mass transit systems in Boston, New York and Washington D.C. Here are the key paragraphs, buried after columns of color quotes … [Read more...]

An extra helping of irony for the sex-obsessed former Special Prosecutor. TPM: Baylor University's board of regents announced Thursday that Ken Starr would be removed as president and transition to the role of chancellor at the Texas … [Read more...]