cars.The whole magazine is supertitled "the car issue" this week.Contents include a paean to horsepower and a Parade-magazine-style photo pictorial that is basically soft-car porn.Granted it's not all that bad--and cars are a big part of … [Read more...]
Strategy & Tactics: Defending Marriage with the Power of the Majority
1. A majority of either chamber can pass resolutions deploring violence and hate rhetoric against gays (and marriage supporters).2. Either chamber can hold hearings on signature fraud, keeping the spotlight on this seamy aspect of the … [Read more...]
On Civil Disobedience
Rep THOREAU The right to equal treatment before the law is fundamental to our system of government and trumps even the language of our constitution in this case. Therefore, I am introducing a proposal that, if adopted by the voters, would … [Read more...]
Working Groups & Public Participation: What Now?
So there must be, what, thousands of ideas and bits of testimony to the transition working groups about how to go forward? Tens of thousands? Anyway, many more ideas and viewpoints and claims of facts, not always in agreement, than anyone … [Read more...]
Mass. Election: Hidden Winners & Losers
Loser: The Anti-Marriage CrowdLegislative shenanigans aside, the folks who are against marriage for some of us had another bad election night as their pet issue stayed off the electoral map.The ranks of anti-marriage legislators continue to … [Read more...]
The State Constitution: Two Amendments I’d Like to See
An amendment proposed by initiative petition, if not decided yea or nay by a vote of the joint session as of its adjournment, may be referred to the next joint session by petition of one forth of all the members elected. That would be an … [Read more...]
Another wacky non-sequiter from the Globe
I honestly can't make sense of how the Globe spins this stuff. Is it really such a challenge to cover this campaign in a lively and interesting way, without resorting to dumb gimmicks? That is a sign of editorial weakness. The cuts at the … [Read more...]
Kerry Healy has jumped the shark
She is not the first Republican to hold such a radical agenda, or even the first to articulate it, but a statement like that from someone who is seeking to be Governor of Massachusetts is without precedent.It is on the order of Gov. … [Read more...]
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Kudos to Patrick and Gabrielli for clean campaigning, but the truth is that neither of them could afford to be tainted with the kind of dark-side machiavellian gambits like the Killer Coke scam. That doesnt hurt Reilly so much because it … [Read more...]
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