CNN is currently broadcasting a piece by Fareed Zakaria that we should all be paying careful attention to: We need to prepare for this deeply worrying scenario. Multiple models suggest that the most plausible and most likely scenario, … [Read more...]
Odds & Ends
When the Covid Crisis is over, will Democrats in our state house or DC consider mandating a sustainable wage and benefits for all workers who, during the pandemic, were designated as "essential"...or will we go back to dismissing them as … [Read more...]
How to shut up a Trumpist
I have been confronted recently by vulgar, screaming, Trumpists while holding signs campaigning for Joe Biden / Kamala Harris in my hometown of Wakefield. Believing that arguing with someone who has lost his reason is like giving medicine … [Read more...]
Precinct Map – 2020 Democratic US Senate Primary
Here's a precinct by precinct map for the Democratic US Senate Primary. It's a Tableau file, so you can zoom in. Hovering over a precinct generates a popup with vote totals. … [Read more...]
Jack McGinty. One of Trump’s “Suckers”.
My father, John Joseph McGinty, pictured below in San Francisco on his way to serving America in the Occupation Army of fascist Japan, in Nagasaki, in 1946. He died of cancer in 2000. We do not know whether it was related to exposure to … [Read more...]
Jake Asterisk? (2021 Congressional Redistricting is suddenly more fun!)
Fun new parlor game: How do you surgically redistrict around Jake Auchincloss to make him Jake Asterisk? Maybe you move the northern half of Newton into MA05 and bring Ashland and Framingham into MA04. For those who remember the … [Read more...]
My brother Peter was not a loser
Last night, we learned that Donald Trump called Army service members like my brother Peter Rich, who died for his country in Vietnam, "losers". The Atlantic magazine, with at least four independent witnesses, reported the … [Read more...]
Arlington, Markeychusetts
At the time of the 2010 census, 29 municipalities had a larger population than Arlington. In Markeychusetts, it's much, much bigger. Arlington had the fourth largest Markey plurality (margin of victory) in the … [Read more...]
Trump encourages voter fraud in NC
President Donald Trump at his campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 20. Multiple sources report that Donald Trump explicitly encouraged North Carolina voters to commit felony fraud in an on-the-record TV spot (emphasis … [Read more...]
Public Health Officials: Stop Compromising Science
I’m only speaking for myself on this, but I have come to fully trust only Dr. William Haseltine and Laurie Garrett- both epidemiologists, in the matter of a scientifically-based public health response to COVID-19. Dr. Fauci eerily … [Read more...]