Lifelong Mass. resident. Why Coakley lost

Daniel Patrick Welch jumps the gun with Why Martha Lost.

Excerpts.

People. Are. Pissed. There really isn’t much more to it than that. And the more you try to schmooze them into believing things are better when they’re not, the more they will turn on you. Judas said it best (or at least Anthony Lloyd [...]

Be prepared

(First of a series of articles on preparedness)

I teased Bob about his disaster preparedness plan when he posted about the Solar/Hand-Cranked Cell Charger, but I was only half joking.  The average disaster readiness score for Americans hit 4.1 out of 10 in 2007, up from 3.31 in 2006, but there’s still a long [...]

Wake up call in Massachusetts

HuffPo

How could the health care issue have turned from a reform that was going to make Barack Obama ten feet tall into a poison pill for Democratic senators?

Whether or not Martha Coakley squeaks through in Massachusetts on Tuesday [today], the health bill has already done incalculable political damage and will likely do [...]

SF Mayor on Mass. Senate race

Gavin Newsom gets it (mostly) about what’s happening in Massachusetts

In Massachusetts, he said he suspects on Tuesday “even Democrats are going to be voting quietly for a Republican…there’s no doubt about it. . .because (voters) are so angry,” he said. “They don’t like the backroom deals. They don’t feel that we’re paying attention to [...]

What religion should you be flowchart

Antarctica largest wind farm now operational

It will provide 11% of the power for New Zealand’s Scott Base

Arianna Huffington throws in the towel on Obama

On the eve of the first anniversary of President Obama’s inauguration, it’s become painfully obvious that elected officials are not going to save us. The 2008 election was all about “Hope.” But Hope is simply not cutting it.

What we need is Hope 2.0: the realization that our system is too broken to be fixed [...]

Industrial composting for restaurants

The system, a one-touch, space-saving, stand-alone machine, quickly decomposes the compostable waste through intensive heat. The waste is then converted into high-density organic particles which can be used as soil amendments, biomass energy, and organic fillers.

Foreclosure auction in southern California

Sue and I went to a foreclosure auction for residential homes at the LA Convention Center on Saturday. There were maybe 500 people there with 60+ foreclosed properties being sold. Most of the properties were cash only.

The homes went for about 1/3 to 2/3′s of what they sold for before and always for [...]

The Democratic Party and its supposed weakness and cluelessness

You can trust me. Really.

Seminal at Firedoglake is squeaking about how some disillusioned liberals and progressives might abandon the Democratic Party and go elsewhere. How dare they.

The people who voted for Nader in 2000 sent the country backwards and didn’t help reform the Democratic party. By contrast, Howard Dean and his followers [...]