Niki Tsongas had a good night at the NECN studios tonight. She was the only candidate on the stage who looked comfortable, confident and ready to go to work as soon as she's sworn in -- in short, she's ready for prime time, and the … [Read more...]
Evicted!
Charley and I are at the NECN studios to cover the MA-05 debate, which starts in a few minutes. We were sitting in the TV studio with the candidates and a couple of reporters getting ourselves set to watch and blog the debate.Until a … [Read more...]
Open thread
Heck of a game going on right now between Colorado and San Diego -- it's a one game tiebreak to determine the National League wild card. It's on TBS, if you've got the standard cable.What are you watching?UPDATE: NL wildcard game is … [Read more...]
Tuesday’s elections, and open thread
Some important, though largely below-radar, elections are happening on Tuesday. In East Boston, four candidates are competing in the Democratic primary for the 1st Suffolk state rep seat. (There are no Republicans running for … [Read more...]
The Bluest Pundit: a brief interlude
This post isn't actually a review of a chapter from Jon Keller's "The Bluest State," but it's related.As you know, if you've read either the book or one of my posts on it, Keller's central narrative is that "boomer liberals" are responsible … [Read more...]
The Bluest Pundit: chapter 4
The problem with this chapter is its treatment of the local politician who has treated the abortion issue perhaps most outrageously: Mitt Romney. Keller does, thank goodness, occasionally acknowledge Romney's "flagrantly expedient … [Read more...]
The Bluest Pundit: chapter 3
Much of what you need to know about chapter 3 is captured by Keller's description of a march, sponsored by the Tri-Cities Welfare Rights Organization (WRO), to Barbara Anderson's home in Marblehead. The unidentified year appears to … [Read more...]
Open thread
Waddaya say? … [Read more...]
Another BlackBerry outage?
This is kind of random, but I just thought I'd ask. A few months ago, the BlackBerry email service experienced a massive network-wide failure -- why it happened, and what the ramifications would be, was the talk of the tech town for a … [Read more...]
Labor Day open thread
Have at it! … [Read more...]
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