Pay No Attention To Scott Brown!

January 10, 2010

Today the Boston Globe trumpets poll results that show Martha Coakley is up by 15 points on Scott Brown.  Let’s hope that lots of Democrats read the banner headline and conclude there is no reason to go to the polls.  That’s right – no reason!  Stay home!  The Coakley juggernaut cannot be stopped!
Of course a [...]

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Healthcare Makes Strange Bedfellows

December 22, 2009

Maybe it’s the drafty hospital Johnny making everyone a bit uncomfortable, but I’ve noticed a lot of people crawling into bed with the Republicans to block healthcare ‘reform.’  Sadly, this embarrassment of a bill will likely pass and be signed into law, and we will all be the poorer and sicker for it.
Howard Dean and [...]

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Editors Gone Wild

December 13, 2009

Mistakes happen.  I write a lot in my job, so I know this from personal experience.  Sometimes mistakes are funny, sometimes they’re confusing and sometimes they’re just plain infuriating.  I came across examples of each of these today in my Sunday reading. 
The first is from the Architectural Digest January 2010 issue.  There’s a feature article about [...]

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Solar, Powered By Taxes

December 4, 2009

In the past two weeks, thousands of emails liberated from the computer systems of East Anglia University have begun to throw cold water on global warming claims.  That has done nothing, however, to dampen enthusiasm for green projects in my hometown of Andover, MA.
The lead story in the December 3 Andover Townsman, “Solar Power Heats [...]

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The acceptable conservative: a definition

November 30, 2009

“A conservative, in the best sense, sees the world and its inhabitants as an interdependent organism, comprising innumerable local communities and territories, each adapting to particular conditions.  A conservative is someone who goes with the grain of humanity and the nature of the physical world, rather than trying to regiment and fashion a utopia though [...]

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Dipping my toe (gingerly) into the blogosphere.

November 29, 2009

I’ve been thinking about blogging for a long time now.  But like many would-be bloggers, my urge for self-expression kept running into My Better Judgment (MBJ) and there it would end.  MBJ thinks that I may offend someone.  Or lose my job.  Or, God forbid, spell something wrong.
But the damn urge hasn’t gone away.  If [...]

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