Every passing day gives me another reason to be disappointed in our president and our government. Not, mind you, because Barack Obama too “liberal” or “socialist” or “fascist” or “communist” or any other nonsensical and insupportable-by-reality slur but because, quite to the contrary, he has ushered in what seems to me a stunted, overly-measured, carefully [...]
Also posted in News | Tagged Islam, Obama, terrorism, war |
I’m pretty pissed that my senator—a representative of Massachusetts, no less—supports torturing prisoners, opposes health care reform, opposes cap-and-trade, opposes gay marriage, opposes reproductive rights for women… We gave the Republicans eight years to run our country into the ground, and now we’re pissed at the Democrats because they haven’t fixed all the damage in [...]
Donning protective masks the second the American cyclists arrive in China… how symbolically pleasing for someone concerned with China’s rampant human rights abuses. Photo from the New York Times.
Also posted in Sports | Tagged China, Olympics |
The Patriot Ledger ran an opinion piece by a Weymouth reader, Irving Murstein, in today’s issue. After the first few paragraphs, my mouth was wide open in disgust. After a few more paragraphs, I was cracking up. It’s past time for the president to come on TV in a living room chat about the energy [...]
I need to wake up in 4.5 hours for work. I’ve been trying to take the T to work, but the garage at Braintree is always full and I have nowhere to park my car, so I just get on the highway and deal with traffic and construction and gas prices and greenhouse gas emissions. [...]
Also posted in Money, Summer, Weather, Work |
Well, I’ve officially thrown my hat into the ring, so to speak. I am running for Senior Class Representative in the Wesleyan Student Assembly, and voting started about twenty minutes ago, at midnight. I’ve got my slick campaign website finally finished, a Facebook Event started up, and campaign posters on the way. I plan on [...]
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China’s pissed that CNN’s Jack Cafferty insulted their Communist government! Oh no! “I don’t know if China is any different, but our relationship with China is certainly different,” Cafferty said. “We’re in hock to the Chinese up to our eyeballs because of the war in Iraq, for one thing. They’re holding hundreds of billions of [...]
Mm, first day of classes after Spring Break. Woke up at 10 o’clock, showered, headed off to ECON256, and got my paper back: a B+. Not bad, but not what I was looking for. I need all A’s this semester in order to preserve my GPA. Anyway, I stuffed that paper in my bag and [...]
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You are so funny, Gail Collins: The Texas primary results were much closer. The white male vote, which keeps shifting, was split. I’m beginning to suspect that the white males have realized that they’re either going to be accused of racism or sexism and have therefore made a secret pact to take turns.
Well, I suppose I could go to sleep for four hours. It’s 5:13, after all. But it’s pouring rain outside, and there’s a huge squall line of thunderstorms heading right for us: winds in excess of 60 mph are expected within the hour, according to the National Weather Service. Apparently there is a Flood Watch [...]
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