There's an old saying: "Anybody who calls themselves a realist is steeling themselves to do something of which they are secretly ashamed..." On Scott Browns Campaign Website there are to be seen many iterations of the words "independent" … [Read more...]

If you were travelling at 108 mph, as has been reported widely, without a seatbelt, as has been alleged by the State Police, how did you survive the wreck that trashed your car? How, indeed, did you walk away without any lasting … [Read more...]

A Mr Rick Ungar writing at blogs.forbes.com makes note of the beginning of the end of the for-profit healthcare business. He's saying a lot of what I've said here, particularly that this is the most important component of "Obamacare"; That … [Read more...]

I don't believe in coincidence. In particular, I don't believe it was happenstance that a growing anti- %1 movement emerged in the same year that the NFL and the NBA experienced extended lockouts and sometimes fierce negotiations between … [Read more...]

Ain't that a... well, you know. It was a dark and stormy Saturday night and I had JUST put the kids to bed and the wife was reading. I sat down to some soulful Ray Charles, a Guinness and some good ole fashion wholesale slaughter of Nazis … [Read more...]

A recent cri de coeur by the indefatiguable Lynne got me to some serious thinking. The post was about the goals of OWS and whether or no the 'movement' would be 'co-opted'. The Mahablog voices similar sentiments after reading Michael Lind … [Read more...]

Or, put another way, everything old is new again: Lech Walesa Is going to visit NYC in, ahem, solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. Maybe we can prevail upon him to make a stop in Boston...? For those of you scratching your heads … [Read more...]

.... "Don't tread on the flowers" and then goes on to say "civil disobedience will not be tolerated". The flowers, however, are not the only cause for Meninos alarm; He, and the BPD, are presenting an ever shifting array of … [Read more...]

According to occupyboston.com the Boston Police have laid down an ultimatum.  From the site: At approximately 18:00 the Boston Police Department informed Occupy Boston that if they did not clear the site by nightfall, they would be … [Read more...]

To Whom It May Concern: When evaluating candidates for any office I look for several KEY factors: intelligence, backbone, sober-mindedness, where they are from, what they have done prior, why they might want the job, where they stand … [Read more...]