Deep Vein Thrombosis. The words have a rhythm to it, yeah? Deep. Vein. Thrombosis. It sounds really bad in the bleakest, most harrowing manner.... something like a post-punk collective smuggled out of East Berlin before the wall came down. … [Read more...]

Here's an old joke: Way back when, as the state of Maine was carved out of the original Massachusets Bay Colony the borders between Maine and New Hampshire weren't precisely fixed. After some time passed the states worked together to make … [Read more...]

A lot has been written about the cost of a potential Olympics. The Boston Globe, among others, has reported the budget of the games to be at $4.5 to $5 Billion. This is not strictly true: this is only the cost to organize and run the actual … [Read more...]

Martha Coakley is a dogged hardworking human being. That's her only sin. Those of you still wondering what she stands for can finally open your eyes: she stands for an honest days pay for an honest days work and y'all could have seen that … [Read more...]

Ninety percent of all the sons in all the world who ever survived childhood followed (if they knew them) into their fathers profession. This has been true for farmers, soldiers, grocers, truckers, engineers and baseball players. And this is … [Read more...]

According to the latest poll listed at the electro-wiki-info-ma-thingy the word firm of GreenbergQuinlanRosner (and presumably Funk and Wagnalls) calls it a tie, still. Of note is the dates which are co-incident with the Boston Globe … [Read more...]

It's a simple question: if Ray Rice knocked his fiancee unconscious... what more is there to know? The fate of Roger Goodell seems to hang on the old cliche of what he knew and when he knew it and this twists upon the separate videos taken … [Read more...]

A recent diary pointing to a DIG article about neophyte attempts at party politics has garnered a lot of attention on BMG. My first reaction to the piece was seething rage. Not at the snark, tho that was in abundance, but at the clear … [Read more...]

The A.G. can take over a case but I can’t recall when that was done except for reasons of conflicts. The Boston Strangler case was taken over by an incompetent Ed Brooke who liked the notoriety and used the multi-county venues of the … [Read more...]

JConway has thrown down the gauntlet. If you haven't been following (and why not, hmm...?) there is an ongoing todo over whether or not to forgive Martha Coakley for past electoral sins. Here are jconways' terms regarding Martha … [Read more...]