Reality-based commentary on politics.
Ever since the selection of 2000, the rudiments of US democracy have been under attack. We still haven't dealt with the multitudinous problems of electronic voting machines and now we have a concerted attack on registration and voting by … [Read more...]
A Facebook group called Upgrade Democracy is collecting a list of "teams/organizations working on technology-powered solutions to the systemic problems of governance/group decision-making." They want help in expanding the list … [Read more...]
Blue Mass Group's Bob posted recently some possible demands for the Occupy movement. As I see it, there's a lot that needs fixing right now to get back America of FDR's New Deal and Johnson's Great Society (and even Reagan's tax rates, not … [Read more...]
Hey all you One Party Massachusetts fans, have you heard the one about the Dem hack who plays his cards right and ends up with a cushy job for life? No, not your cousin, this OTHER Dem hack who plays his cards right and ends up with a cushy … [Read more...]
Common Cause Massachusetts is hosting a Redistricting Olympics this summer. We will be taking citizen drawn Congressional, State House, and State Senate maps all summer, evaluating them, declaring a winner, giving out prizes and submitting … [Read more...]
Suzanne Bump, the new Auditor has it right in deciding to audit the so-called "tax expenditure budget" The auditor's office carried out an initial review of 91 of the 203 programs in the tax expenditures budget that have significant … [Read more...]
In todays Globe, Joanna Weiss has in interesting editorial about public perception of unions. See here: http://www.boston.com/bostongl... She qoutes a recent Pew survey that shows that a majority of the public does not support unions. This … [Read more...]
Those public servants assembled in Madison, and everyone gathered at our State House, deserve better than this. We must not allow them to be made scapegoats in an agenda to hobble America's labor movement. State governments will … [Read more...]
You know, David, there, there is a joke that went around Egypt for many years about Mubarak that he was on his death bed and an Egyptian delegation came to see him of the people. The nurse came in, said, "Mr. President, the … [Read more...]
"My grandfather knew the exact time of the exact day of the exact year that he would die." "Wow, what an evolved soul! How did it come to him?" "The judge told him." --From "Plato and a Platypus Walk Into A Bar...", Thomas Cathcart and … [Read more...]
