Recently, a lot of talk has gone, back and forth and back again, regarding, specifically the Health Insurance Provider Fee (HIPF) and health insurance in general. Amidst all the talk about who's screwing who and which SOB was lying about … [Read more...]

Hi, it's wallyfromdantham here. I have temporarily subdued petr and I have taken over his account to tell you something vitally important... and it might even be true... I dunno fer sure, but I feel pretty positive about it... Petr's sure … [Read more...]

Apparently, the coverage of his little tax, ahem, kerfuffle, is causing Gabriel Gomez to rethink some of his strategy. To whit, his team of crack turd blossoms are putting their collective heads together to come up with a new, snappier … [Read more...]

It occurs to me that the latest Gabriel Gomez kerfuffle is a worthy successor to such fine hoo-raws of the past as "Mission Accomplished", Etch-a-Sketch, Citizens United, Scott Browns' unbridled sexism and racism ("He's for us") and that … [Read more...]

Many people are raising some legit question, but some of the people raising the questions are scurrilous ne'er-do-wells, to whom I won't link here. So I'm putting the questions here without, one hopes, drawing the trolls. My hope here, in … [Read more...]

I wish to go firmly on the record affirming, re-iterating, underlining and otherwise repeating amen after amen to Barney Frank who firmly and comprehensively contextualizes so much of what needs to be said; "In this terrible situation, … [Read more...]

Glenda Jackson, star of one of my favorite movies, Hopscotch, and a member of Parliament over twenty years now, in a debate over whether the House of Commons should pay tribute to Baroness Thatcher. Video Posted here not just for the … [Read more...]

The scene: Beacon Hill, office of the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. It is an early spring day and Robert DeLeo is seated facing the window. A look of deep contemplation on his face. The only sound is steady swish … [Read more...]

Caution: Strong Language ahead. I attempted a bowlderized version but it just didn't get across what I was trying to describe. I also tried a version with asterisks that just turned into gibberish... There are three, and only three, … [Read more...]

Scott Brown is going after Elizabeth Warren for supposedly trading, falsely, on flimsy evidence, on her Cherokee heritage: as though Elizabeth Warren is the most brazen of liars and a clear affirmative action hire (as though that, in … [Read more...]