From cross-town blogger Elisabeth Riba:
It’s nearly a half-hour to the broadcast premiere of Air America Radio, and it looks like their website is completely overloaded and unusable….
But don’t despair! Commenting in an Atrios thread Chris Tucker has posted a list of the affiliates which have their own streaming audio. So you can point your […]
One of the more heartening events today has been Attorney General Tom Reilly’s statement that he will not back the Governor’s plans to seek a stay from the SJC to block gay marriages come May 17. Hardly a supporter of gay marriage (he crusaded against it), he simply affirmed what most people in the know […]
It’s perhaps inevitable that progress in public attitudes toward gays that homophobia will morph into new lifeforms. One such trope that seems to be making the rounds is the notion that gays and lesbians are making their demands for marriage frivolously, that they’re more excited about registering at Williams-Sonoma and choosing tuxes and buying wedding […]
The final vote was just taken, 105 for to 92 against. The constitutional amendment passes. It’s disheartening that a majority of legislators have voted to take away marriage rights from gay men and women in the Massachusetts. Gov. Romney is now holding a live press conference amd is using the amendment as an excuse to […]
I just got back from the rally outside the State House. It’s quite a different scene this time around: a sunny spring day, less tension in the air, and about half the number of protestors, with only a fraction of the anti-gay crowd. No out of state buses this time.
Inside the State House, the convention […]
Getting a sense of what’s going on from the Globe in any timely fashion is like getting blood out of stone. Fortunately, the Herald has this bit from AP on the passage of the revised Travaglini-Lees-(Finneran?) amendment:
The swift vote, which appeared to take some lawmakers by surprise, eliminated several other amendments, one of which would […]
Globe columnist Adrian Walker complains this morning of the backroom dealing that has been the hallmark of this multi-part constitutional convention:
At this point, the issue of gay marriage has been debated ad nauseum…. by now there’s a limited amount left to say.
So what we are left with is nothing but a mind-numbing shell game. What […]
Next Monday, the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention meets for the third time in two months to consider an amendment outlawing gay marriage. The coverage has been quiet in the interim, but from today’s Globe it looks like things are brewing behind the scenes at the State House:
State Senate President Robert E. Travaglini began drumming up support […]
This is pretty small stakes as far as right-wing media bias goes (for a major offense of taking quotes out of context, see Josh Marshall today catching FoxNews in a flagrant example), but the Herald’s cover story on Mayor Menino’s ban on the Boston Fire Department Acappella Quartet (from performing at President Bush’s fundraiser today) […]
A workmate just received a copy of the revised copy of C. Wright Mills’ Power Elite and noticed that my name is on the back of it!
Not sure where Oxford UP got my blurb, but think it must have been from a comment card from an examination copy of a course I taught. Sadly, […]
It’s only 9:30AM, but I’m already hungry after reading the New York Times’ article on Indian Restaurants in New York. The piece is about the expansion of vegetarian offerings, in counterdistinction to the usual North-Indian meat-focused cuisine typical of Indian restaurants. But equally it’s about the increasing popularity of regional Indian food. “More than ever,” […]
Source: www.fundrace.org
I’ve had a busy day, so not time for a proper post, but via Kevin Drum’s new blog, I came across a nifty website that maps political donations by geographical location and allows you to search a given address and ZIP. The above is a detail from the Boston map.
No surprises really: my […]
Via Matt Yglesias and Chris Mooney, I came across an ongoing war of words over “Intelligent Design“, a relatively more nuanced challenge to Darwinian evolution than traditional Biblical creationism. This particular exchange started with an anonymous student book review in the Harvard Law Review which uncritically rehearsed the arguments of a Discovery Institute book by […]
The standard liberal rejoinder to the Republicans’ claim to be the free trade party is that Bush and the Congress put through steel tarriffs and agricultural subsidies on a scale that surpassed much of what the Democrats could imagine for trade protectionism. In fact, the only substantial difference in the parties’ stances is the nature […]
The Associated Press profiles the mayor of Providence, David Cicilline:
As one of the few openly gay mayors of a major American city, David Cicilline is a powerful lobbyist for same-sex marriages.
But he’s not planning to open his City Hall office anytime soon to gay and lesbian couples hoping to be married, as a few […]