Hey! I wrote a little book. Barack Obama for Beginners will go on sale tomorrow, published by Steerforth Press and For Beginners books and distributed nationwide by Random House. Hat tip: FrankSkeffington. It was mentioned yesterday in the … [Read more...]
Voting Incentive: get a tax credit for voting
Australia gives its citizens a fine for failing to vote on election day. In my experience as a teacher, I find that carrots work way better than sticks in trying to change a student's behavior. Therefore I propose a law whereby … [Read more...]
Serious Netroots Reform
Just like you can't cure the cold with antibiotics, we can't cure the problem of unaccountable commenters at newspapers if the population at large thinks it's 'the blogs.' While people are calling for a fix in 'the blogs,' newspapers have … [Read more...]
Dem State Convention BlogLeft Mass Workshop!
Not all of that is easy and there's still plenty of room for planning left. If anyone would like to get involved, please let me know. There's two phases to this whole thing: making sure the content and structure of our presentation is … [Read more...]
Oh, wow
All right, this isn't politics. But didn't you get tingles up your spine watching John Lester in the 9th? To think that less than two years ago, he was told that pain in his lower back was Something That Could Be Very, Very Bad and now... … [Read more...]
Jimmy Tingle For President, May 13th at 8pm
Get Your Laugh On! Jimmy Tingle: The Funniest Campaign in History 8 p.m., Tuesday, May 13th at the Masonic Hall, 1950 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge. That's about a block north of the Porter Square T stop on the Red Line, and … [Read more...]
Journalism Student Needs Some Help From a Left-Winged Blog Surfer
I'm a journalism student at Northeastern University and I'm writing an article for my blogging class about moderate blogs such as the Moderate Voice. I'd like to get an ideological bloggers point of view so if you are to the left in … [Read more...]
The Mitty and the McCain
But I know Mitt's not the only one. The oddly- and-recently-again-red-headed Lou Dobbs would love to be on the ticket, any ticket. Dobbs/McCain, Dobbs/Obama, Dobbs/Clinton, or probably most preferably: Dobbs/Dobbs. The Tale of … [Read more...]
The Banality of Spitzer
First of all, the sex. As Brian says, sexual indiscretions are usually not very high on the list of rotten things a politician can do:Americans, to some great extent, have internalized this cartoonish idea that politicians ought to be … [Read more...]
Friday Joke Revue
In response to an excellent reader suggestion about the need for more humor on BMG, herewith a new weekly feature: the Friday Joke Revue. Let's face it, politics is the last legal blood sport in Massachusetts, or the nation's first reality … [Read more...]
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