September 30, 2020

I watched so you didn't have to.

95 minutes I'll never get back. For the next debates the moderator must be given switches to shut off dumass' mike when it's time for Joe to speak.

September 29, 2020

They are getting desperate.

This morning I got a fundraising email from Mike Pants. I am a lifelong Democrat and an elected official of the Massachusetts Democratic party. If they think there's a chance that I would vote for the Tangelo Tinted Taint Tumor, let alone contribute to the fascist's campaign, well, they can wait until hell has frozen over.

September 25, 2020

Open letter to all who still have jobs

Happy Friday!!

September 24, 2020

In a first, Norman Rockwell Museum enlists illustrators to inspire voters

STOCKBRIDGE — Lady Liberty isn’t holding a mere torch to light the way. In a new illustration inspired by the iconic statue, her raised, clenched fist is actually aflame.

And instead of a serene, 1,000-yard stare, artist Yuko Shimizu’s Lady Liberty stares up defiantly, through a crown’s silver spikes and Medusa-like shock of hair.

“DEFEND DEMOCRACY,” wording above her proclaims. “VOTE!”

Shimizu’s work soon will join the permanent collection of the Norman Rockwell Museum. But, right now, in a first for the Stockbridge center, her illustration, and five others also commissioned by the museum, will be offered as free downloads to be shared on social media as part of a voter-registration campaign.

More at link:

https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/in-a-first-norman-rockwell-museum-enlists-illustrators-to-inspire-voters,614116?newsletter=614175&fbclid=IwAR2SK8dG5TDL2yndNrwzeAmVMGZZgVV8c9AIlOIDrX0WHO29gLZ5XUuYucc#top-carousel

September 23, 2020

How to keep a fool in suspense

Nancy: How do you keep a fool in suspense?

Donald: I don't know. How?

Nancy: I'll tell you later.

September 20, 2020

OMH, what a show!

I just finished watching David Bromberg's 75th Birthday party on livestream from Arden Gild in Wilmington, Del. It was the band's first time playing together since March, but they didn't play like that at all. I can't wait until his 80th.

September 16, 2020

Is he really that stupid?

Or is he just pretending? I am no longer certain. Clearly, from the tapes Bob Woodward has, he understood early on just how serious this COVID-19 is. He seemed to be smart enough then, and yet he chose not to take action that would have protected tens of thousands of Americans from this catastrophe. I really cannot decide.

September 15, 2020

SJC Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants, a fearless advocate for racial justice, dies at 65

Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants, whose determination to provide equal justice to all led him to commission a recent study of racial disparities in the court system, has died, the court announced Monday.

Justice Gants, the first Jewish chief justice in the court’s 328-year history, was 65 and had been hospitalized Sept. 4 following a heart attack.

“This is a tragedy,” said Margaret H. Marshall, a former SJC chief justice.

Governor Charlie Baker said in a statement that Justice Gants “led the Supreme Judicial Court with intelligence, integrity and distinction” and that “his legacy as a judge and as chief justice is profound, and he will be sorely missed.”

More at link below

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/14/metro/sjc-chief-justice-ralph-d-gants-has-died/

September 11, 2020

Paul Cauthen--Everybody Walkin This Land

September 4, 2020

Enough With The Kennedy Dynasty Hot Takes. Joe Lost Because He Was Impatient

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020/09/02/joe-kennedy-ed-markey-senate-race-eileen-mcnamara?fbclid=IwAR2NwZX1k2rO9i_7DIzkYKJD0Vwd-eT1NcqFykpMlhLzLP3PaiqiA5EA_IA

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A promising but impatient young man’s sense of entitlement took a drubbing, not the Kennedy legacy, when Senator Ed Markey beat back his Democratic challenger on Tuesday. “This isn’t a time for waiting, for sitting on the sidelines,” Kennedy said when he launched his upstart campaign a year ago, leaving mystified voters wondering when a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives had become “the sidelines.”

That certainly was not Kennedy’s pitch in 2012 when he defeated a crowded field to replace Barney Frank, the retiring Democratic congressman from the much-amended district once represented by his father Joseph Patrick Kennedy II, his great uncle John Fitzgerald Kennedy, his great-great grandfather John “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald. Joe’s reputation then, born of a stellar academic record at Stanford and the Harvard Law School, was of a charming but sober Kennedy, more interested in issues than in the spotlight his family name invariably attracts.

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Kerry learned to bide his time. Joe Kennedy did not. The result of his hubris is that Massachusetts loses a congressman it would have preferred to keep, and the days of political dynasties in Massachusetts recede further into history.

Read the whole article at the link.