I support candidates first based on what they do or will do. Who they are comes after. What Eric has accomplished as state senator is nothing short of amazing. You can look up his record on Wikipedia or his website. Those sources, … [Read more...]
Baker, BESE, and Riley Circle the Wagons on MCAS
Fanaticism is redoubling your effort after you've forgotten your aim. --George Santayana Ars gratia artis, the motto of MGM Studios, is the Latin translation of “art for art’s sake.” The movies, MGM implied, were their own excuse … [Read more...]
Stochastic Terrorism: A Term Whose Time Has Come
I posted this 4 1/2 years ago. This morning Jake Tapper-trying to use the word he had just learned from interviewing Juliette Kayyem--said "schotastic." --Mb stochastic terrorism: the use of mass communications to incite random actors to … [Read more...]
Losing Perspective, Gaining Insight: Education, Perspective, and the Original Situation
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. --Zhuangzi I recently taught George Orwell's 1984 to my Honors English 11 classes. In order to provide the historical underpinnings of the novel, I taught the basics … [Read more...]
Worse Than Obstruction: Foreign Powers, Trump, and the Mueller Report
“All the smart folks are only talking obstruction because the counterintelligence piece is too big and confusing and the result is that Americans have no sense of the scope of the story.” --Seth Abramson Seth Abramson was the first … [Read more...]
A Hard Impeachment Rain Is Gonna Fall
Writing to learn was once a popular concept in education. The idea was to write about what a student was learning. It was hardly revolutionary in English, but it was pretty cutting edge in math. If my recent post is any guide, writing to … [Read more...]
Easy for You to Say: Pundits Criticize Democrats for Not Impeaching
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” --George Orwell It's finally happened. Trump's crimes have led the media to criticize the Democrats. I'm not talking nutty right-wing, but the mainstream. Not that I … [Read more...]
A New Generation of Women Will Change Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill: where the coffee is strong and so are the Women Politicians are human. Occasional bad behavior should come as no surprise. What matters is what is done about it. And recently sworn-in Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa (D-Northampton) and … [Read more...]
The Inauthenticity Trap and A Way Forward for Elizabeth Warren
I've met Elizabeth Warren. And let me tell you, she's likable. She doesn't send me Christmas cards, and she doesn't remember me. But I've spoken to her and had my picture taken with her at a rally hosted by my friend and state senator Eric … [Read more...]
The New Coke: The New Politics of Seth Moulton and No Labels
"We need New Politics because our current politics isn’t working." — Congressman Seth Moulton In the 1980s, Patrick Caddell, pollster for Gary Hart's presidential campaign, parlayed the idea of a "new idea" into one of the biggest … [Read more...]
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