No, I’d never heard of him, either, and I live twenty miles north of the State House. From the Boston Globe: Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has picked William “Mo” Cowan, his former chief of staff, to serve as the state’s interim US senator until the successor to John F. Kerry is chosen by the voters …
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I’m your doctor when in need
Don’t know if you’re following the weird Ray Lewis doping story story, but it’s amusing: Like the star of an infomercial flush with catchphrases — “Guys, this stuff is beyond real!” — Key also showed the players gallon jugs of “negatively charged” water, which he claimed would afford them better hydration because it adheres like …
When it is only a question of frequency
This “triggers on border security” thing is interesting to me because I don’t see how they’ll quantify any of it. Will it be number of illegals crossing the border, frequency of patrols, height of border wall, number of sharks with frickin’ laser beams in the border moat? This seems like exactly the kind of thing …
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And for the coup-de-grace…they’re outrageous
I have a hard time following UK politics. All their leaders look alike to me (except for Boris Johnson) and I *still* don’t understand why mumbling “sinjin” over and over again makes for a convincing argument, even after watching a lot of Christopher Hitchens on tv. But I do like this story: The news came …
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It is an unnecessarily time-consuming demand to expect anyone to provide you with proof
I’ve been here in Australia for about six weeks, and if it hasn’t been been piss-steamingly hot, it has instead been dumping cockloads of cold rain on my head. I was shat on by a koala that looked more stoned than I did. I had to go to a cocktail party attended by both Rose …
This sucks
It’s the smallest of contractions, but it’s still not good: The United States economy unexpectedly reversed course in the final quarter of 2012 and contracted at a 0.1 percent rate, the Commerce Department said Wednesday, its worst performance since the aftermath of the financial crisis in 2009. Economists were predicting a 1.1% increase. Time for …
Letting gun control arguments atrophy
Another AR-15 left unsecured and easily accessible, another wholly preventable tragedy, and some really striking polling regarding Latinos and gun control that I haven’t seen discussed: A fifteen-year-old New Mexico Latino teen who later told police he had homicidal and suicidal thoughts grabbed his parents’ assault rifle from their closet and killed his mother, a …