We got back from South Carolina on Monday afternoon and found waiting for us an Obama flyer and a written note to call HQ to come volunteer. I’ve been making calls after work out of the main state office in Somerville ever since. Massachusetts is reputed to be Clinton territory, Kennedy/Kerry/Patrick notwithstanding, but we are [...]
Physicists understand that observation can change the thing being studied. Perhaps observer effect partially explains the pollsters’ poor predictions (”Stunned by N.H., pollsters regroup to seek answers,” Jan 10). Maybe the very act of publishing the polls changed the vote. If voters were truly undecided to the last minute, as many appeared to be, they’d [...]
Stephen Colbert practices satire, but I suspect his dalliance with Maureen Dowd in today’s guest op-ed piece is only sarcastically ironic. Indeed, his subtitle, “I am an op-ed columnist (and so can you!)” points out the essential problem of op-ed writing: anyone can do it, and someone somewhere in the blogosphere is faster, wittier, and [...]
It’s bad enough that daily comic strips like Doonesbury and Mallard Fillmore run two weeks behind the political times. Reading them is like watching the Daily Show on a malfunctioning Tivo, except that the jokes are even staler than the news. But Globe columnists like Jeff Jacoby turn irrelevance into an art form. A good [...]
Dear Boston Globe:
I voted for it (like there was a choice), but Red and Rover is gone, and good riddance. Inauthentic fan letters notwithstanding, the strip is nothing more than a marketing ploy, fine-tuned to hit two notes (baby boomers and their children) in cynically calibrated harmony.
The strip is set in the 1950s, featuring tin [...]
Back in college I used to write the student paper frequently and got published more than a few times. ‘Course in the Real World, it’s a spot harder getting a letter published (especially when those letters involve the comics pages) so it was pretty exciting getting my response to an Op-Ed on Thursday in printed [...]
…at least I hope so! Cast my ballot just now and am excited about what’s ahead for Massachusetts — and for our country.
Patrick handily won the right to be mauled by Kerry Healey this autumn — with most districts reporting in, it appears the only cities he’s lost are Blackstone (by 27 votes to Gabrieli), Braintree (by 545 to G), Dedham (by 16 to G), Holbrook (very close 3rd to G, Reilly), Methuen (by 74 to G), [...]
He may have run a one-issue campaign, but John Bonifaz’s one issue — election reform — is our issue too, and he’s got our support today in the Democratic primaries.
Oh, and we’re supporting Deval as well. Of course.
In a bold move to show courage in the face of terrorism, Governor Romney has accepted the harrowing mission of riding one stop on the T:
Elevated public transit security remains in place after the terrorist bombings
in London two weeks ago, and some downtown T stations have additional security
forces this morning after another scare in London, [...]
