Michelle Wu writes an op-ed in the Globe suggesting (as I've long advocated) that the T be made fare-less, that is to say, free. I'd like to re-iterate my wholehearted endorsement to this idea. What would the T cost to simply be a … [Read more...]
Here’s a local something that hasn’t received a lot of attention here…
The NatGrid lockout and subsequent victory by the steelworkers union. I confess I wasn't following it all that closely myself but was reminded of it by this Steve Tolman piece in Commonwealth Magazine where he lauds the union for sticking … [Read more...]
Tis true, ’tis pity, And pity ’tis ’tis true.
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about … [Read more...]
Let the majority be the majority…
Predictably, the next presidential race has started, in earnest, and, just as predictably, calls for radical change in the Democratic Party are heard again and again. This is ridiculous. The Democratic Party is not in need of rebirth. In … [Read more...]
The Blue Wave is real…
The latest number I've seen is 8.5 percent blue over 50, for the House. That's the popular vote: the sum total of all House elections, 58.5 percent team blue. Almost 59 out of every 100 persons who voted, are part of the blue wave. When … [Read more...]
The Long Game
Today's election results, whatever they may be, are certain to usher in further instability:that is to say, whatever the outcome we will see things become worse than they already are... Anybody expecting this to be the definitive election … [Read more...]
Guerrilla tactics of the insurgent ruling party…
Wait... What? Guerrilla tactics? For the insurgent ruling party? How can a ruling party be 'insurgent'? How can they employ 'guerrilla' tactics, if they are in charge? Well, what else would you call 11 pipe bombs (so far) to the … [Read more...]
Who Elected You?
Some anonymous lickspittle in the White House has penned, anonymously, a rather smug, self-congratulatory notice of a coup. The New York Times was docile enough to publish it. I have one question for this anonymous crypto-fascist: Who … [Read more...]
Charlie NOT on the MBTA….
Though I'm a little perturbed, and somewhat disturbed, that the otherwise fine satirists of BMG left it to me and my poor efforts to update the relationship between a man name Charlie and the Boston transit infrastructure, I must admit to a … [Read more...]
Slaughter of the Innocents
Matthew, Chapter 2... 16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had … [Read more...]
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