My letter to the President
Like many on this site I have been a lurker. I recommend a diary here and there. Post a comment or two. But haven't published a diary. I hope this isn't my last. Like many of you, I also check this...
View ArticleAre you angry? No, I'm mystified
In Massachusetts the Lion of the Senate had his seat fall into the hands of the uninformed. The Coakley campaign was lacking, there can be not doubt. But why Scott Brown? He's photogenic? His daughter...
View ArticleFox News Ratings
Rachel Maddow really came down hard on Fox News for their role in the Shirley Sherrod affair. And Bill O'Reilly fired back.
View ArticleCurt Schilling Just Another Phony Republican
Been a Sox fan since I was a youngster. That's the way I was brought up. We were all fans. When I was a young boy, we'd travel to Fenway Park in school buses for church trips. We'd sit in the bleachers...
View ArticleForeign Policy GOP v. Real World
Imagine, just imagine if the GOP would have been as engaged then, on September 11, 2001, when Osama bin Laden struck the US. They're really into it now with the attack that killed four Americans in...
View ArticleOn election day the Facebook battles are over
I've been called a socialist, a communist, a follower of Saul Alinsky. I have debated my Facebook friends and my FB friends' friends, and even a few of my wife's FB buddies. I have been called nasty...
View ArticleWhere's My Extraordinary Gift?
There have been a lot of explanations as to why the Romney-Ryan ticket went down in defeat. Bill Maher's Dispatches from the Bubble theory seems to have played a big part. The right wingers really...
View Article50 Years and What Have We Learned
50 years ago, it took six seconds in Dallas, Texas, a place known because of its rightwing fanatics as the “City of Hate”, to changed the course of America. A youthful president who offered us a Peace...
View ArticleHappy 10th Anniversary
Tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of gay marriage in Massachusetts. And just as James Dobson of Focus on The Family, predicted in a July 2004 letter to supporters:"...Barring a miracle, the family as...
View ArticleMaybe being reasonable isn't exactly your thing
We've all seen it on the news and the web. Days after Georgia passed it's "guns everywhere" legislation, there was some man, walking around a local park. Where children were playing. Openly carrying...
View ArticleThese are Republican Heroes?
After todays Kim Davis love fest it got me thinking about recent Republican heroes. They are beloved by right-wingers and lionized by Fox "News". They don't seem to fit what I would define as a hero. I...
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