Right now we’re not just watching sausage being made—it’s excrement that’s in the works. Read about the compromises being considered in an attempt to put a bit of room freshener on the stinking pile of garbage that health care “reform” … Continue reading →
Just for a moment, forget about how compelling a candidate Scott Brown is. And forget about how nice it would be to have a Republican senator from Massachusetts, and a 41st vote against Obamacare. Forget? Why? Because, even if those … Continue reading →
…it’s warm there. Can you imagine how much worse it would have been if this had occurred in a cold climate during winter? On top of all the other problems, people would be freezing to death. That’s small comfort, though, … Continue reading →
As inevitably as death and taxes, the Boston Globe has come out for Martha Coakley for Senator from Massachusetts. What’s far more interesting than the completely expected endorsement is the way the paper did it: tepidly. The editors could barely … Continue reading →
[UPDATE: I got word from a commenter that Kennedy’s campaign manager, Dave Galusi, had written back to him that Kennedy is forbidden by law to drop out. Perhaps a better tack, then, would be to write to Galusi (dave@joekennedyforsenate.com) asking … Continue reading →
As if tiny Haiti didn’t have it bad enough, now it has been hit by an earthquake of magnitude 7.0. Buildings in Haiti are flimsy even without a temblor, and many have fallen, with extremely high casualties very likely. Communication … Continue reading →
If Sarah Palin had said what Martha Coakley did, it would be headline news everywhere, and Saturday Night Live would devote at least one program to it, maybe several. Here’s the quote from Coakley’s debate with Brown: “I think we … Continue reading →
Pound for pound, Joe Rollino was one of the strongest men who ever lived. Five-foot five inches tall, weighing between 125 and 150 for most of his life, he set records for all sorts of muscular feats: lifted 475 pounds … Continue reading →
An interesting contrast in approaches. First Coakley, in traditional negative-ad style: Nothing in there about why Coakley is good, only about why she thinks Brown would be bad. Coakley doesn’t even appear in the ad, nor do we hear her … Continue reading →
…about Obama’s foreign policy in the midst of such pressing domestic issues. But John Bolton is here to remind us, and it’s not a pretty picture. [ADDENDUM: This should also be a big, big story, although health care reform seems … Continue reading →
In my “Avatar” post, I wrote: [The movie] fits in so nicely with the current notions of many of the AGW and PETA folks””that humans (especially of the first-world variety) are the scourge of an otherwise wonderful earth””that it makes … Continue reading →
What do Martha Coakley and Dan Quayle have in common? Well, let’s see: (1) They are both lawyers. (2) They both have been affiliated with their states’ AG offices (she as Attorney General, he as an investigator for the Consumer … Continue reading →