Politics

A couple of years ago I called casino gambling in Massachusetts a no brainer, but Governor Deval Patrick’s administration has allegedly put a lot of head into it. This might actually be the best part, quoting The Boston Globe: “[The Patrick aide] helped draft Patrick’s casino bill.” Only the bill is a poorly thought out [...]

A common argument against enforcement of immigration laws is that it is impossible or at least hopelessly impractical to deport all 12-20 million illegal aliens. The retort is that it isn’t necessary to deport them all, most of them will leave on their own volition if enforcement is stepped up. There are reasons to believe [...]

Below is a screenshot from an online poll at the website of one of Sweden’s biggest daily newspapers. They question is “Who do you hope will become America’s next president?” “Annan” is Other and “Vet ej” is Don’t know. I have no idea what John Edwards did to so royally piss of the Swedes.

From Boston’s Chinese-American newspaper Sampan: A new immigrated Chinese woman with two children age 8 and 10 lost her husband a few months ago. She worked part-time job with meager income. The income barely covers rent and food. She sought assistance with the program at Asian American Civic Association. With the help from program staff, [...]

The ancestors of Jewish-American community leader Mr. Abe Foxman’s Turkish buddies were a busy bunch. They slaughtered not only hordes of Armenians, but also hordes of other non-Muslim people, including Assyrians. Many surviving Armenians cleverly emigrated to America, a country that matters, while Assyrians for God knows what reason chose to turn my Old Country [...]

Mr. Seth Gitell writes that Time Magazine – which apprently is not only subscribed to by dentists and doctors but occasionally also read – is running a hit piece on former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The magazine disputes the former Mayor’s claim that he has been dealing with terrorism for thirty years, arguing [...]

E-comm consultant Randy Smythe finishes a post on eBay Live with an interesting bit of speculation: Of course if Meg Whitman’s buddy Mitt Romney is elected President that might help delay [government] action [against eBay]– I’m just saying. Here’s a thought OT (off topic) With Meg reaching 10 years at the helm of eBay and [...]

One of the Republican Party’s fund-raising operations called my wife today to ask for $500, money that would get her “dinner with the President,” her name in an ad in the Wall Street Journal and a certificate that she could frame and hang in her office (shouldn’t they spend that money on rebuilding the party, [...]

About a decade ago I went into a store to buy a black suit. The proprietor told me he had no black suit, but he did offer me a dunkelblau one. Ever since I’ve been making dunkelblau jokes, along the lines of “that guy in Reservoir Dogs who didn’t want to be Mr. Pink should [...]

I read the teaser for an article in The Boston Globe on how young voters are going to be really, truly, sersiously off-the-hookizzle important in next year’s elections, and my reaction was the same as John Daley’s: Weren’t we told the same thing in 2004? Aren’t we told the same thing every election? I for [...]