Now is the winter of everyone's discontent. Gigantic budget cuts are now necessary; local aid slashed; new taxes proposed to try to patch the gaping holes in state and local budgets. Nobody's happy.Therefore, I'm not very … [Read more...]
Morning quick hits
Son of vocally anti-war BU prof is killed in Iraq.That's a particularly exquisite agony: To know that train has been coming down the tracks for four years; to know the war was a mistake; to know that your son's heroism is being misused and … [Read more...]