(Cross-posted from Boston Daily)
Paul McMurtry the most powerful man in the House right now. That fact is due largely to the legislature’s disinclination to work at any pace that could be characterized as “speedy,” or even “workmanlike,” or even “mildly determined.”
The House and Senate left a whole mess of bills untended to when their [...]
Entries from August 29th, 2008
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
August 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
Tags:Boston City Council·Boston Magazine·Communism·Legislature·Politics as Bloodsport
Scenes from an Impending Disaster
August 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Yesterday, I saw a Northeastern kid pushing a laundry cart full of his earthly possessions across the Christian Science Plaza, towards the Pru. Not sure where he was going, but he sure was on the move.
Later, in Harvard Square, a gaggle of squeaky freshmen congregated on the sidewalk. Several were attired in Harvard windbreakers, hats, [...]
Tags:Terror
Steve Jobs is Dead?
August 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Media
Well, he isn’t anymore.
But he was, briefly, yesterday afternoon, when Bloomberg accidentally published a half-written obituary of the Apple CEO. The wire service later “retracted” its death notice. So sorry!
[Wikipedia photo]
There Are Two Americas and One Has Free Alcohol
August 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
Four years ago, a bunch of Democrats came to town and rode around in buses and drank their faces off and listened to a bunch of speeches and gawked at flowers that had just been planted and reported for duty. I was there because this is where I live. We only had one press pass [...]
Tags:DNC·Self-Promotion
McCain Hops Off the Bus
August 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
Chris Jones’s portrait of John McCain in September’s Esquire [not online at the moment finally gracing the internet with its presence] is noteworthy because of how drastically it differs from the scene Ryan Lizza painted back in February.
In one, McCain crawls back from oblivion by inviting reporters to crowd around his table, ten at a [...]
Tags:Esquire·John McCain·New Yorker
Legaliiiiize It
August 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
I swung by Dig HQ to make a long-distance phone call about beer yesterday, and while I was there, I snagged a spiffy new American Apparel Legalize LA T-shirt. It’s awesome and totally comfy and, when looking to get all political and stuff, it’s the next best thing to screaming in Michelle Malkin’s face or [...]
Tags:self-referentialism
Falling What?
August 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Clear and calm tonight. Lows between 55 and 63. No threat, it would seem, of a nor’easter. Not yet anyway.
Or does somebody know something the rest of us don’t? Spotted this morning, around 9am, on Friend Street:
Cuts… So… Deep!
August 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
A quick update from the thoroughly dumb Demtastic! state rep race currently gripping dozens upon dozens of people in town.
Bob Trane’s formerly-dead website has gone all Lazarus on us and up and risen from the dead! It was only un-alive for a week or two or so, and during August, too, so no big deal. [...]
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
August 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted from Boston Daily)
Governor Deval Patrick spent the week pissing people off. Unlike all those other times, though, Patrick should be rejoicing at the sound of these wailing choruses.
The governor began the week by vetoing a multi-billion dollar pension increase for state retirees. Ralph White, president of the retirees’ union (62,000 members strong), pronounced his [...]
