So the boys who "requested and received oral sex" from a 15 year old girl at Milton Academy have been charged with statutory rape (which makes it a crime to have sex with anyone under age 16, regardless of consent). They … [Read more...]
Association of ombudspeople smacks down Tomlinson
The NYT reports that the Organization of News Ombudsmen (everybody has an organization these days!), or ONO, has refused to admit the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's team of one "liberal" and one "conservative" … [Read more...]
Bubble bubble toil and trouble: Babies R not us
Young parents are not sticking around MA, maybe because they can get a backyard elsewhere. Here's a Globe column from Charles Stein (thanks to Democrants):Specifically, [demographer Peter Francese] doesn't see enough young people in our … [Read more...]
Rep. Lynch is thinking about it …
The Globe reports that US Rep. Stephen Lynch is kinda sorta thinking about running for Governor, maybe.Lynch would be the most conservative Dem in the field. I can respectfully disagree with his anti-choice views, but his vote in … [Read more...]
More on the Wellesley override
I can see two broad categories of reasons in support of the school board's decision to reject the privately-raised funds. The "strategic" reasons are the variants on the notion that "if we accept private funds here, the … [Read more...]
“We’ve got to do this!”
So here's the long-awaited GBIO action recap. (I'm getting up at 4am tomorrow for a flight, so I won't be revising -- sorry for the typos and syntax.)I arrived a little later than I wanted to, about 6:40. Temple Israel was already swarming … [Read more...]
Another indication that Chief Justice Rehnquist is retiring
Virtually every Supreme Court observer is assuming that Chief Justice Rehnquist's ongoing and apparently quite serious bout with thyroid cancer will result in his retirement at the end of the current Supreme Court term next month. … [Read more...]
So it DOES make you go blind!
The NYT reports:The Food and Drug Administration said today that it had asked Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drug maker, to amend its warnings on Viagra in response to scattered reports of vision loss by people taking the drug.Some … [Read more...]