Go Figure...

Israel may have a larger nuclear arsenal than Great Britain.

Sen. Brown sez he wants to "keep an open mind" about

repealing DADT in the US Military.

Never before has an "open mind" been invoked in defense of a close minded repressive and unfair measure...BC's law school sure does graduate some subtle minds to be sure.
Right now Brownie is a no vote, mostly on grounds that his compromise last week on financial regulation means he must find a red meat wingnut issue to champion this week to quiet his tantrum-prone teabagger base.
So of course, Brownie being Brownie, he throws a few more homos onto the bonfire in hope that will stem the tide of book-burners that're defriending him on Facebook.
Still and all that, he is a remarkable pussyfooter isn't he?
Who knew?
By inclination he clearly wants to say no, the man was no friend to his gay constituents as a state senator, but of course he wants to say no in a nice safe way. The man is caught between two mutually exclusive realities, the clear preferences of his constituency (DADT spells MUD in Massachusetts) and then there is the wider fundraising world of Teabag USA Brown must satisfy and beyond that he has to stay on Mitch McConnell's good side...Disheartening prospects for Justice over the short run sez Humble Elias.
Doesn't seem like he will pull that off, just sayin'.

Senate President Murray is right about one thing,

the current scandal in the Probation Department is about "Separation of Powers".
Said department has become Separated from any Power of oversight and good public management.
As for Speaker DeLeo, he is swimming in deep waters, if I was him I'd recuse myself from any discussion of the matter, rent a fishing shack in Provincetown and hope for an oil slick in Nantucket Sound.
Again I hate to harp on a old metaphor, but Murray and DeLeo will gladly jump thru hoops of fire when gaming and casino gambling is under discussion, but when a sickening patronage scandal detonates in the Probation Department suddenly they wanna go slow, throw the car into neutral, block off the wheels even.
I say pass the Governor's gawd-damned bill to move the Probation Department over to the Executive Department and be done with it, there is plenty of oversight to found therein.

All well and good to have a

Governor who has been trying to clean up the mess at the Probations Department all along, nonetheless his proposed legislation has languished untouched and unreported in the Great-n-General Court since January 2010.
This is in spite of critical reports from the State Auditor's office, much discussion in the press, and now this Spotlight series in the Globe and still the legislature doesn't act.
Oh but watch em' jump thru hoops of fire if you are a lobbyist for casino gambling, all that pernicious shit gets reported out of committee at lightspeed plus.
My recommendation is that the lege get of their fat asses and get the Governor's bill passed on the quick, but then Humble Elias has little pull with that crowd.
Meanwhile kudos to the Boston Globe for a expose' on government malfeasance that lives up to the hype and covers all the details in sequence. Despite all, the Globe is still a paper of substance, they don't howl and snark like the Herald they just get the job done regardless.

It must be a mid term election,

because once again, the GOP resolves itself into a committee of vigilance and xenophobia and is bound and determined to run every illegal immigrant it can out of the country.
Until the election is over and they need the pool skimmed and dinner cooked that is. Arizona's current draconian anti-hedge-clipper/pool skimmer/au pair laws being only the latest example of movement conservatism's biannual flirtation with calculated xenophobia.

Just remember this guy here, he is an illegal immigrant. His foster parent lied like dogs in the heat to keep him far away from the Federales, do you really want to send him to the back of the line? have him pay a penalty and wait his turn when genetically engineered pterodactyls start strafing the citizenry?
Right now the way the law reads he couldn't fly over Arizona without incurring a bench warrant...Think about that.

On Hiatus, be back after the 23rd....

I dunno kids, aren't you all getting sick of reading the same old "sarcastic rant driven chatter" from Humble Elias day after day? I mean, it has been seven years after all, better written more passionate blogs and bloggers and gone Walking with the Man in the White Nightshirt in that span.
 The future belongs to on-line "communities" like the Blue Mass Groups or blogs with a solid install base in the community ("Left in Lowell" por ejemplo) or focused issue blogging as it is done over at the Marry in Massachusetts.
Despite the abundance of solid bloggable chaos I'm starting to wonder if the curtain is finally falling on the whole solo-blogger against the world meme.
There are other things I could do...Just sayin's thass all.