American Athens

I know I live in Allston, and BU kids aren’t representative of the town, and I think there’s less racism in the northeast than in most places (Kerry Healey’s Prisoner’s for Deval and those who would be swayed by her race-baiting ads aside), but when I step outside my door and see a white guy […]

Earlier this week, we had encouraging electoral news from Suffolk and SurveyUSA, with Deval Patrick enjoying a healthy lead over his challengers, with the second place Kerry closer to third place Christy Mihos than Patrick. Today a new Boston Globe poll gives more good news for Patrick, as he garners a majority of voters (54%) […]

Neighboroo.com: Using Google Maps, it gives you all kinds of crazy data relating to your (or any other) neighborhood. Politics, housing prices, cost of living, racial breakdown, crime rates, air quality, tax rates, commute times…
A List of members of 109th Congress who are being investigated by DoJ
The 40 greatest concerts in Boston history. (Sadly, I […]

This is so good I have to repost the entire thing. A big thank you to the guys over at Common Dreams.
By Keith Olbermann
We have lived as if in a trance.
We have lived as people in fear.
And now—our rights and our freedoms in peril—we slowly awake to learn that we have been afraid of […]

Nothing surprising, nor even particularly noteworthy, in this morning’s Globe editorial, in which they endorse the five Democratic candidates for the US House that are actually facing competition. The piece does go so far as to imply that it really wouldn’t matter whether or not they were facing Republican challengers worth considering, the specter of […]

Since Deval Patrick’s Democratic primary win last month, there have been nine polls. In seven of them, Patrick has polled over 50%, the two in which he did not were Suffolk University polls. Well, today, Suffolk released their latest and he’s now broken 50% in this poll as well: 53% to be exact. In those […]

This is Loretta Nall. She is the Libertarian Party’s (write-in) candidate for governor of Alabama. She has one of the worst websites that I have ever seen. It seems as though she is using her cleavage as her campaign’s main selling point. Some of campaign literature includes photos with the phrase “More of […]

On Thursday, I wrote a post that mentioned the $8 million in John Kerry’s warchest from his 2004 presidential bid, and now the Globe has a piece about it as well. I know that Sen. Kerry has indeed been there for many candidates, giving money, advice and other assistance. So, don’t think I’m ungrateful for […]

I was just looking around in the Settings for our little slice of the internet and found a bunch of comments that didn’t make it onto the site because I didn’t know I had anything to do with comments appearing. I’m terribly sorry if you’ve posted a comment here and it hasn’t shown up. We […]

Josh Marshall at TPM has been riding Democrats in safe seats and Democrats not up for re-relection to pony up some of their excess cash to help out those Democrats who are in tight races. It goes without saying, of course, that such folks should be doing their damnedest to help out, emptying their […]

I was just watching CNN and a new, and admittedly clever, AARP ad came on. It’s got a shiny, sparkly candidate singing about how wonderful he is personally, but “don’t ask me about Social Security.” Obviously, Social Security is and should be a huge deal for the AARP — and probably ought to be for […]

It’s Saturday morning, I have a sermon to write for tomorrow and Michigan doesn’t play until this evening (speaking of which, Go Blue). Therefore, I’ve had to seek other avenues of procrastination than my usual rooting interest. And so I present you with one of the funnier things I’ve come across on “teh tubes” lately […]

A few months ago, I sent an e-mail to the blogger formerly known as Henry David Thoreau that basically said I wasn’t comfortable blogging pseudonymously anymore. Though I enjoyed the idea of us using the names of famed literary Bostonians who were similar in political, social and (at least in my case) religious thought, it […]

I was very disappointed to hear about Mark Warner. It was really nice to have someone going into 07′, not have to do any more research about the candidates, and to actually have a national Democrat to be hopeful about, who really could win. Oh, well I guess I’ll dry my tears and go back […]

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Last night I gave these guys a ride to Concord, NH in the pouring rain. It was great chatting with Scotty and Fiddy about their plan and the ridiculousness of it all. These guy’s are legit and they have a great plan and great attitude about the […]

Yesterday, Geoffrey R. Stone, law professor at the University of Chicago, published a great piece in the Chicago Trib entitled “What It Means to Be a Liberal.” I’m with him 100%. I love stuff like this, because it can be so easy to get caught up in stuff like the Red/Blue, Congressional Page-blame game crap, […]

Charles P. Pierce often takes a ton of guff over at TAPPED, though I think he’s usually right on. Here, he’s not pushing much in the way of information, but man does he turn the invectometer up to 11.
Those of us who despaired of Weepin’ Joe Lieberman (I-Green Room) years ago have not been surprised […]

Sorry, training camp just started and I’m a little giddy about the Celtics this year. More importantly, though, is the new Rasmussen poll that just came out, putting Deval Patrick at 57%, Healey at 24% and Mihos at 9%. Also, Healey’s unfavorability gap has widened from a -2% to a -11%; the article doesn’t list […]

They are now back and in full swing. As a graduate student with familial roots in the area, I don’t consider myself one of them, while I’m sure others would. After a great summer, we once again have to deal with the crews of 19-year-old tramps from New Jersey (who are all wearing basically the […]

Well that wasn’t very fair of The Boston Globeand CBS4, putting a poll out on the one day of the week I’m guaranteed to be away from my computer. Of course, it shows roughly the same picture that SurveyUSA and Rasmussen gave: A large, though not insurmountable lead by Deval Patrick (55%) over his opponents, […]