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Infographic: Value Of The Word ‘Horrific’

February 4, 2011 By shiltone Leave a Comment

*Fort Worth Telegram via Kansas City Star … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: horrific, journalism, language, normalization

Bonzo Goes To Bitburg, 2011

January 21, 2011 By shiltone 5 Comments

Schenectady, New York, was -- and is -- a GE town, rising and falling at the whim of its largest employer like some Depression-era cartoon of fat-cat captitalist evil. For many years, what was good for GE was good for Schenectady -- until … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: capitalism, general-electric, obama, schenectady

Guns Are People, Too

June 28, 2010 By shiltone 5 Comments

The U.S. Supreme Court, expected to rule narrowly on whether the 2nd Amendment precludes states and municipalities from enacting gun control laws, instead -- by the usual 5-4 majority -- swept away more than a century of precedent and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2nd-amendment, constitutional-issues, gun-control, scotus, supreme-court

Rights Under SCOTUS Assault — Again

June 2, 2010 By shiltone 2 Comments

In their decision regarding Berghuis v. Thompkins, the Court's majority has decided that a suspect's three-hour silence does not constitute an invocation of his right to remain silent, while opening his mouth after three hours of silence -- … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: constitutional-law, miranda, scotus, supreme-court

Windmill Views Available – A Public Service Open Thread

May 4, 2010 By shiltone 9 Comments

"Welcome to paradise...I don't think people want to see a sea of flashing red lights at nighttime. It'll all be ruined by this industrial mess.''So if you would like to help them through their ordeal by trading places with these folks, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cape-wind, civic-engagement, environment, satire

MA Health Plans Sue Over Rate Increase Rejection

April 5, 2010 By shiltone 15 Comments

Breaking news:  A lawsuit has been filed this afternoon by several Massachusetts health insurers in conjunction with the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (which is not a member of … [Read more...]

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Global Climate Change Deniers Unmoved By Olympic Evidence

February 15, 2010 By shiltone 5 Comments

[sound of crickets chirping] … [Read more...]

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Eric Schultz — Harvard-Pilgrim’s Gain, Worcester’s Loss

February 12, 2010 By shiltone Leave a Comment

Eric is the kind of leader you wish there were more of in the corporate world, embracing the idea of stewardship and understanding the success of his or any company as a cooperative effort of everyone on the roster.  His commitment to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: business-leader, fallon-community-health-plan, fchp, harvard-pilgrim, health-care, worcester

Whoppers Of The Week

November 18, 2009 By shiltone 4 Comments

And finally, speaking of gifts:  The gift that keeps on giving -- Jeff Jacoby. One thing that's always baffled me is how racists think they can speak in "code" that nobody but other racists will understand.  Jeff Jacoby, who once … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: big-pharma, health-care-reform, jacoby, jeff-jacoby, racism, sarah-palin, war-on-christmas

Vanity Candidacy Exposed As Corporatist Trojan Horse

November 3, 2009 By shiltone 23 Comments

Yes, there's a carefully-crafted laundry list of progressive positions in every TV ad, but then there are three good candidates in the race already, each with bona fide progressive credentials.   The only discernible reason for Steve … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: kennedy, ma-sen, pagliuca, romney, senate

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For @TheAtlantic, I wrote about how we’re facing a doom loop of minority rule by white conservatives and the next two years may be our last chance to avoid slipping into it forever. Our leaders must treat this as the crisis that it is and act with urgency. https://trib.al/X0NAofi

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Transforming our commuter rail system into a ā€œregional railā€ system would make it more equitable, modern, and faster, write @transitmatters’ @jarjoh and @BosIndicators’ @lucschuster. https://trib.al/0EMk2mV

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Public summary execution for dangling air fresheners.

Police racism is stochastic terror.

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Massachusetts now has a commitment to 5600MW of wind power, equal to nearly 187 Block Island projects.

Better write those contracts pretty pretty tight.

David Abel@davabel

The money National Grid earns from a transmission line for the nation's first offshore wind farm is ā€œappalling,ā€ ā€œunconscionable,ā€ and amounts to ā€œripping off ratepayers,ā€ RI regulators say.

A cautionary tale as we ramp up offshore wind power. #mapoli

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