Yesterday was pretty sad.
As a long time Red Sox fan and Yankee hater, I have a a deep admiration for Roger Clemens and his mastery of the sport. No one likes this steroid investigation, no one is clean, not the players, not the owners, not the commissioner. Everyone had turned a blind eye, and now [...]
I’m not one for piling up bad news with more bad news, but this latest Justice Department probe is approaching the ridiculous. Even Diane Feinstein can feel that we’ve “tipped” and she can now exert some more of her muscle. Not a pleasant thought.
I’m pouring through Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book, “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without [...]
There have been a couple of stories in the news lately about people getting access to appropriate, legal, and voluntary health care. On the 31st of January, this notice appeared in the NY Times:
A woman who told the Tampa police that she had been raped was jailed for two days after officers found a warrant [...]
The battle today between the courts and the Treasury Department is not so much about the color of money, but the shape of it. As anyone who has ever had a friend or family member who was blind or near to it knows, the greenback is a problem. Ones are the same as tens, or [...]
I came across the most fascinating argument against gay marriage yesterday. I, shockingly enough, found a group of people (a current state governor among them) who felt that same-sex marriage impinged upon their religious freedom. You read that correctly; after years of the argument ‘how exactly does gay marriage affect you?’ the religious right-ous have [...]
I will try to cool it with the Massachusetts politics, but this has me up in arms.
The democratic front-runner, Deval Patrick, is a former US Asst AG for Civil Rights. He got involved in a couple of cases over the years, including one with a rapist who turned out to be guilty (his original appeal [...]
