I’ve known for a while that there could be a tax on my health insurance. I still don’t know how much that will be. As a public employee, I have what people would consider good health insurance. I have co-pays, but no deductibles. My … [Read more...]

A recent Blue Mass Group diary has driven me to distraction for the last few days. I wasn’t worried about it being true veracity. Once you’ve smelled and stepped in bull$h*t, you tend to recognize it. But I was annoyed because I couldn’t … [Read more...]

In April, MInnesota students were in the middle of their newly rolled out Common Core assessments when the servers crashed. The servers of the state's test contractor jammed up, and 15,000 students were either unable to start or finish … [Read more...]

The poor, underprivileged children who leave their uninspiring, low-performing public schools to enter a charter school are being short-changed. So says Mark Kenen, the executive director of the Massachusetts Charter Public School … [Read more...]

If Texas ever decides to get smart, the United States would be a much better place. But given the killing of innocent Texans in the name of justice and efforts to prevent more of it citizens from voting, it looks like we've still got a long … [Read more...]

I was gonna clean my room until I got high I gonna get up and find the broom but then I got high My room is still messed up and I know why 'Cause I got high --Afroman Detroit is the new Greece. The belle weather that isn't. The most … [Read more...]

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before. --Rahm Emanuel Even before the Great Recession, public employee pensions were an easy target. … [Read more...]

Rule of Thumb: studies reporting sweeping conclusions about complex phenomena should be consumed with a grain of salt. The conclusions could be right, but they obscure a leap of faith equivalent to accepting anecdotes as evidence. When … [Read more...]

Romeo and Juliet. Scarlett and Rhett. Ben and Jennifer. Those two people in The Titanic. (I can't watch the movie. I just can't).The list of star-crossed lovers is long, but it's time to add the Republican Party and Truth to the list. We … [Read more...]