Daily Kos does a lot of great things, but this one really stands out in my mind.  They have crunched the results of the 2012 presidential and Senate elections, and the 2013 Ed Markey/Gabriel Gomez Senate race, and sorted them all by … [Read more...]

If your inbox is anything like mine, you are being deluged with fundraising emails from Democrats these days.  And virtually every one of them contains the words "Karl Rove," "Koch brothers," or "tea party/partier."  Apparently, that's what … [Read more...]

Could the Globe's editorial page get any worse?  After yesterday's embarrassing effort criticizing Netflix for trying to win an Emmy (first, why does the Globe - not based in CA - care; second, Hulu, which is a way of watching stuff that … [Read more...]

As of today, you will begin to notice that you are sometimes seeing a "pop-over" ad on BMG, i.e., a screen that appears with an ad on it that you must close before being able to read the page you were heading for.  I know that these ads are … [Read more...]

Mere seconds after Ed Markey actually won the Senate election, we have our first kerfuffle of the Democratic primary to replace him in the House.  As you have no doubt heard by now, Will Brownsberger was the only member of the state Senate … [Read more...]

A couple of weeks back, we had quite the go-round regarding the revelations of the NSA snooping program that collected cell phone "metadata" - i.e., who you called and when, but not the contents of the call.  (Set aside for now questions … [Read more...]

The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, has declared that section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which says that the federal government only recognizes opposite-sex marriages, is unconstitutional.  Henceforth, the same federal … [Read more...]

As expected by many, including me, today the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to declare the formula by which it is determined which jurisdictions are subject to "preclearance" under the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional.  Chief Justice Roberts, … [Read more...]