with an etch-a-sketch? Mr. "Krazy Khazei," the gift that keeps on giving. … [Read more...]
Health care is a seamless garment and other metaphors
If you don't like contraceptives, don't use them. You are allowed to be a cafeteria consumer of health-care services, but it's really a bad idea for your doctor or insurer or anyone else to filter science through an ideological litmus … [Read more...]
Mitt, you’re on Car Talk
Read this gem courtesy of that plucky band to the north, BlueHampshire. … [Read more...]
Two unrelated things that really are related
At the end of last week Charlie posted a column about our relatively high tax inequity in relation to that of other states. At the same time progressivemax posted notice of the first general meeting of Massachusetts Democrats for Reform … [Read more...]
Things I didn’t think I would think about redistricting
After playing around with some open-source redistricting tools and thinking about the gnarly issues that arose therefrom, I reached some conclusions that surprised me. For instance, geographical compactness doesn't matter much, unless … [Read more...]
Spare, eloquent testimony from the 99 percent
on Tumblr. … [Read more...]
A modest proposal
It would be swell if, when you get to the bottom of a long page at BMG comments full of insight and badinage, there was a handy link back to the home page like there used to be. … [Read more...]
Wanted: A Fighter
The high point of Al Gore's presidential bid was at the convention when he said I will fight for you. Sadly he did not and it was down hill from there. Today the times call for leaders who will dig in their heels and fight for what is … [Read more...]
A disaster takes an ominous turn
It may still be possible to cool the melted fuel, but the radioactive byproducts of this accident just got harder to contain. The drywell is surrounded by a secondary steel-and-concrete structure designed to keep radioactive material from … [Read more...]
Cool census-data map
The New York Times has an interactive map of U.S. census data that will break things down to the level of individual census tracts if you zoom in enough. Check your your town, city, neighborhood. … [Read more...]
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