If...

Howie Carr railed against the Jews the way he regularly rails against homosexuals (especially homosexual who are registered democrats)...would he still have a radio show?
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Okay that may be pure sophistry on my part...but my point is not what you might think.
Conservatives bear a great responsibility for the coarsening of American culture, the corporate elites they champion routinely use the liberal inspired loosening of censorship to sell consumers ever more products in ever more vulgar ways.
Meanwhile, the likes of Don Imus (a mangy old lout, even on his best days) pushes the limit on racial and sexual frontiers when he isn't cooing over Senator John McCain or giving a platform to puritan hysterics like Former Senator Rick "High Pitched Rich" Santorum.
And yet all these guys would sell themselves to us as values pimps of one type or another...well ouldn't know it to listen to them.

Marking out like a Goldberg fan on crystal meth...

THAT was CNN yesterday with the news that Captain Phillips had been rescued by US Navy SEALS from Somali pirates.
There are times when CNN is literally posessed by the spirit of a ten year old boy watching violent Saturday morning cartoons....and that time was yesterday believe me. The story had all the cliches, pirates, SEALS...if the hostage was Mandy Moore or a younge Debra Winger it couldna been better from their point of view.
Mind you, I'm glad Captain Phillips got sprung...and I'm also glad that the trillion or so dollars I personally have sent to Washington to built up the US Armed forces to an unheard of bulkitude has finally finally finally paid off on behalf of the little guy.
But CNN yesterday I mean...they were babbling incoherently with happiness...anything that ends violently and victoriously makes them kvell.

Easter in Middlesex County

In the RCC, God's people still dress in Red Sox gear for High Mass...But thank the lord God Almighty, there are mothers out there, good churchgoing women who still believe that Easter is a time to dress up their little girl's like the late Minnie Pearl.
Happy Easter from Humble Elias

According to

Romney sycophant and all around mega-ass hole Eric Fehrnstrom, Massachusetts literally blew up like the Planet Krypton when gay marriage was therein legalized.
And only he, somehow like Kal El himself survived the apocalypse to warn an Iowa audience of the impending horrors of two people laying claim to their inalienable rights...like they wuz human beings or something.

Beacon Hill Chicken...

Yesterday the Boston Globe reported that the state legislature is cool to the Governor's revenue proposals (including the .19 gasoline tax) and is actively planning to simply cut the budget to reach solvency.
Today though, the Globe reports that the MBTA is about to go bankrupt and will be forced to cut service down to a level appropriate to Manchester New Hampshire unless someone comes up with 165 million.
So...the game is on mah frenz...and it's being played out on the front page of the region's biggest newspaper. You would never see this level of engagement from the Boston Herald so think twice and think hard about what civic life would really be like without the Boston Globe's unique platform.

Well...I guess...

this news item demonstrates the worth of a diploma from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
Those occasional cries to close or privatize the school will fall silent for a while at least.
However things look pretty bleak in the Indian Ocean, I think it might be time to abandon joint patrols and go over to a system of convoys as was used in the North Atlantic in World War II. Convoys however would require some co-ordination from within and without NATO as well as some critical policy unanimity.
Good luck getting that mah frenz...

The Palin theory of Governance:

Government should be small enough and intimate enough to hound & harass certain citizens who have had the bad fortune to incur the wrath of the Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin.
That mah frrenz is her definition of "activism".
Case in point, her daughter Bristol's earstwhile fiancee' Levi Johnston.
This poor wretch is really in for it, Palin is a notorious nurturer of vendettas, she basically chased her ex-brother in law off the state police for various petty and mean spirited reasons...she will unleash much the same on young Levi as well.
If I was Levi Johnston I'd look into some sort of dry-walling gig in Pennsylvania or maybe waiting on tables in Provincetown this summer.
Anywhere that is far from Alaska and it's small minded bitterly vengeful governor.