Reviving this BMG tradition for the last time. What are your political, sports, or other predictions for the next two years?     … [Read more...]

Thanks again to Joel Patterson for getting me on this site back when his son was a newborn and I was a teenager. Now his son is a teenager and I have a newborn! It’s been a wild ride. Thanks to Tom for his Davis Sq. Hospitality. Fred, … [Read more...]

AG Maura Healey will be the next Democratic nominee and that would likely have been true whether or not Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz ran against her, but I am still going to vote for her this primary for a few reasons. 1) Share our … [Read more...]

Jon Keller has an interesting piece in Boston magazine on how the state is becoming more purple. Like his previous foray into this discussion, his 2008 book the “Bluest State”, Keller cherry picks  a few anecdotes like a woman who’s son was … [Read more...]

Andrew Yang should listen to his critics. Take it from me, a former statewide field director of a centrist third party. We targeted state legislative seats in a high education, single party state, and we still failed. This was because third … [Read more...]

I have a ton of respect for Speaker Nancy Pelosi as both a legislative leader and a consistent champion of human rights in foreign policy from opposing the Iraq War to supporting Ukraine and Taiwan against their hostile neighbors. That … [Read more...]

So long as Donald Trump remains the front runner for the 2024 Republican nomination, President Biden is the only Democrat capable of beating him. This is the silver lining from an otherwise grim assessment of Biden’s re-election and … [Read more...]

President Obama once honorarily called President Clinton the “Secretary of Explaining Stuff” and his recent appearance on James Corden to discuss the epidemic of gun violence in America is a master class in political communication. He … [Read more...]