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Dear Senator-Elect Brown,
I am writing to urge you to reconsider your support of the pending health care reform legislation.
My experience has afforded me some insights which you might find useful in considering this matter.
First, I’ve experienced directly how badly our current system fails us. I went several years without the benefit of regular health care. […]

YES! DIE, DST, DIE!
I knew there was a reason I voted for that man.
Goodness knows, I have no problem with using energy consumption as the axe to grind DST away on. But I would also love to see more attention paid to accident rates in the month after each switch, and an assessment of […]

I really did not have time today to look at all of these beautiful and insightful photographs of Barack Obama. But I did anyway. (The one in the ice cream shop is particularly magnificent).
(Thanks to SimpleBits for the pointer.)

If you’re in Massachusetts, you can too:
http://votenoquestion1.com

Oh, Somerville, heart of my heart.
I don’t really know a whole lot about the current State Senate race; I am an expat Somervillian for the nonce and not eligible to vote in it.
But candidate Bob Trane apparently thinks he has grounds to sue The Somerville Journal for running a satirical political cartoon
That is some […]

I still want the bastards who send these things to all to go out of business and be forced to find honest work to feed their kids, but this one seems to capture the mood of the times, or anyway illuminate the current level of political discourse.

I’ve been really enjoying the logo and branding re-design critiques at Brand New, well, pretty much since it launched.
I’m surprised (and delighted) by just how partisan today’s entry on the RNC’s pachyderm is.
If I weren’t more disenchanted with the Green Party, I’d suggest that maybe it could be the “mouse that roared.”

You’d probably expect me to be down with the Honk-to-impeach folks, and at first I was, but the more I think about it, the more this protest bugs me.

It creates an impression of consensus whether it exists or not. If anyone is honking, it seems like the traffic flow is in agreement with the sentiment. […]