We were distressed to see last week that the NY Times, in its ongoing and misguided quest to stymie the investigation into Novak-Plame-gate, had signed on to one of the right wing's favorite canards: that the disclosure of Valerie Plame's … [Read more...]
Brooks contradicts himself – again
Let us consider the latest from NY Times columnist David Brooks:The larger, far more important point is that in a society as individualistic as ours, it's especially important to protect and nurture the countervailing institutions. It's so … [Read more...]
I admit that this makes me nervous
Today the Supreme Court declared that the Eighth Amendment (which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment) bars the execution of persons who were under 18 at the time they committed their crime.I don't think executing juveniles is a very … [Read more...]
Milton Academy and statutory rape
By now, most of us here in the Bay State have heard about the "incident" at Milton Academy (for our out-of-state readers, Milton Academy is a prestigious private boarding school in a suburb south of Boston) in which a 15 year old … [Read more...]
A good debate
Should Deval Patrick run for Governor? Is Tom Reilly the best candidate for the job? These are excellent questions, and it looks as though a real debate is starting to shape up around them.Good. It's exactly the … [Read more...]
People who are much, much smarter than you or me
This interesting article in the New Yorker about ultra-geniuses Albert Einstein and Kurt Gödel is well worth reading (it's in part a review of Rebecca Goldstein's new book called "Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt … [Read more...]
Thinking strategically on gay marriage
Lots of interesting news on the gay marriage front this week. Item the first: the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has agreed to hear a constitutional challenge to the infamous 1913 law that is being used to bar out-of-state gay … [Read more...]
The WSJ and PlameGate
The notorious editorial page of the Wall Street Journal has weighed in on Novak-Plame-gate. And it's a pretty funny piece - a tour de force, really, although they'd probably hate the use of a French phrase to describe their … [Read more...]
Our unprincipled Governor
I've been trying to write a post on Romney's pandering to the right for days now, and I keep getting so angry that the post becomes incoherent. So I'm trying a new approach, just letting his own words do the work.Read this, from … [Read more...]
Pretty much sums it up
Good old Tom Tomorrow. Click the image for the full-size, ez-2-read version. (Hat tip: Kos.) … [Read more...]
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