We are pleased to welcome two fairly recent additions to the Massachusetts progressive blogging community: Walk in Brain, written by recent MA transplant Wes F., and Dirty Water, whose author Ken goes by the amusing handle … [Read more...]

As you've undoubtedly noticed by now, I put a fairly primitive-looking stay-at-the-top box on our main page to create one-stop shopping for all of your Second Middlesex Senate race needs.Is this a good idea?  Useful?  Or does it … [Read more...]

Cookbook author Julie Powell writes an op-ed in the Times decrying the supposed gastronomic and class snobbery of those who buy organic food, finding herself "uncomfortable" in Whole Foods and "longing for the nonjudgemental … [Read more...]

Well, after being unceremoniously dumped from Google News a few weeks back, it looks like we're back in!  I received an email today passing along the good news.  Might take a couple of weeks, but pretty soon we should be … [Read more...]

OK, here's the last word on cell phones, at least for now.Seen yesterday while driving in Belmont: an older man riding his bicycle, not wearing a helmet, talking on his cell phone.Discuss. … [Read more...]

From the "Stories You Don't See Covered in The Boston Globe," or "Why We Live in a Bubble Even Though We Think We Are Well Informed" file:The ban on U.S. air force personnel entering London following last week's terror … [Read more...]

For a while our posts were getting picked up on Google News.  Which was pretty cool - it brought in readers we wouldn't otherwise get, plus we got to see our posts next to the New York Times or some other august media corporation when … [Read more...]

This is just doggone funny.(Thanks to Universal Hub for the guffaw.) … [Read more...]

Last Friday was Dan Kennedy's last post over at Media Log, which has long been one of the more interesting reads around these parts.  We will miss him.And now for some housekeeping.  The point of a blogroll is to provide links to … [Read more...]

Devoted readers of this page have noted that for the past two months my girlfriend and I have been traveling from Hong Kong to Istanbul through Central Asia: China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. Interest in … [Read more...]