Anne Romney is apparently a "Go" for

Her husband Mitt to run for the US Senate, this time from Utah.
Whew...I was worried there for a short moment that MAYBE Ms Romnet might put her own health or age or well being on a co-equal footing with the relentless ambitions of her spouse, the former Governor of Massachusetts.
Quick question, When has Anne Romney ever said NO to any of Mitt's electoral ambitions...Senator Governor US President and now Senator Again....to say nothing of US Secretary of State. I think if Mitt was mulling about running for "King Swank of Hell", His Wife would be the Loudest "YES!!" In the room.
Well what of it, reflex enabler or not she is still the Better Half of That Marriage, Ms. R managed to leave a good impression in Belmont as opposed to her famously detached and seldom seen Spouse.
The Moderate Republican Trauma Team at the Boston Globe seems relieved as well, they can go on fantasizing that the "Vital Center" is calling the shots in the GOP for a few more months, at least until "Senator Romney" starts getting rolled by the Trump White House...and he will believe me.
That is IF Romney wins, just remember he lost his other bid for the US Senate (albeit in alleged liberal enclave Massachusetts) and over he hasn't won an election at all since 2002.
Food for thought y'all.

Oprah Winfrey for President?

On the basis of a rousing speech at th Golden Globe's Sunday Night, Oprah Winfry is being touted as a Presidential Prospect all over the mediaverse even as I write this.
Yipes.
Well, as I pointed out a year ago, Trump's "election" broke down a lot of very necessary barriers in US Politics, "personal crapulence" clearly isn't a disqualification for office and zero experience in politics doesn't count for a hill of beans either...but the malign consequences of the annihilation of those barriers are a veritable Sword of Damocles over our heads, every single day.
Oprah's chief qualification for office is a huge personal fortune and a comfort factor on TV that will give Marshall McLuhan the screaming bedspins...but thats it. How she'd handle tedious exactly and thankless budget negotiations with congress is a mystery and would remain so until she was theoretically inauguated.
Granted if nominated, the debates would be grand political theater but shit, the debates with Hillary Clinton were great in every way and still the damn thing blew up in our faces.
No...Forget Oprah for President, its your privilege to advocate a candidacy solely routed in anxiety relief, vengeance, money & name recognition....but it may never ever be what the country needs post Donald Trump.
Besides there is a quality of "homeopathic medicine" to Oprah for President, the cure for a sugar high media sensation driven presidency is clearly another even stronger dose of sugar and media hype....again, I have m' doubts.

Apparently Climate Change has reached such a malevolent

pitch that we have to worry about serious coastal flooding during high-end snowstorms, a problem utterly unknown when I was boy in the idyllic days of the late 1960's.  The current custodians of the Executive Department in Washington DC will see the entire seaboard from Texas to Cutler Harbor under 100 feet of water before they'll tolerate a whisper of "climate change". As such the ball has to carried downfield as best we can by state governments, so yeah its time to start discussing that seawall in the Boston Harbor and a host of other preventative measures. If I had any advice for Mayor Marty Walsh its to do his best to prevent Charlie Baker from turning this issue into a "state thrift versis Boston's profligacy" scenario, this is exactly the sort of thankless complicated issue that the Governor would love to bury under cliches and forget.
For that fact, the three democrats currently running for Governor are well advised to start talking up this issue and try and tag Baker a bit with it. What are Charlie Baker's plans regarding climate change anyway?  I'd love to know, because this one is knocking loudly at our doors right now.

Based on his behavior

its hard not to infer that The President is as Guilty as Sin with respect to the Mueller investgation.  But when it comes to obstruction of justice though, he is just so momumentally stupid at it, he makes threats he can't back up, schemes in public and seems woefully ignorant of even the elementary school basics of how the US Constitution works.  In fact the more Trump struggles and flails, the more evidence he piles up of his own guilt.  Literally, the only thing keeping him in the Oval Office is Paul Ryan & Mitch McConnell's zealous commitment to enabling the President right to the edge of National Annihilation.

Its 2002 All Over Again...

Orrin Hatch (finally) retires and within minutes Mitt Romney is scheming to run for the US Senate from Utah.  All that is missing is a conspicuous female politician to temporarily obstruct his path to Power.
"Here is Mitt Romney HE, WILL SAVE US!" Said No One Ever.  Oh social media is alive with references to the Salt Lake Winter Olympics, where Mitt fired some contractors and dilegently collected licensing fees as the sum total of his heroism - my Next Door Neighbor's Dog could have done as good a job for Cthulu's Sake. And then there is "Staples" which is literally the only business enterprise ever acquired by Bain Capital whose workers jobs weren't outsources to Manila and the Shoulders of Orion.
Paltry stuff indeed....Nonetheless...
I wish the People of Utah the Sweet Christian Joy of Willard Mitt Romney, entitled, craven, a bully to those weaker than him a toady to those who overwhelm him....the man is changeless I will grant him that.
But the notion that Romney is gonna climb into the US Senate to somehow be a loud voice against Trump is ridiculous, just because Mitt has a glass jaw when it comes to Right(wing) Hooks, doesn't make him the fabled Moderate GOP Messiah, it never ever did, but....this seems to be a lesson we haven't yet internalized.

For the Past Two Weeks...

Arctic Temperatures have caused all sorts of vexing service delays on the Red & Orange Lines to say nothing off the usual one-off slowdowns on the Green Line.
And that is with gentle breezes and clear skies overhead, I shudder to think the sheer paralysis that will grip the system when and if we get five inches of wind driven slush during a Wednesday Night Rush Hour.
Oh the fun we'll have....I wonder if Governor Baker has a spreadsheet for the occasion, I'm sure he does and I doubt it'll do anything to rectify an admittedly as yet hypothetical situation.  I wanna suggest to any democrat who wishes to run for Governor this year, take some time off fundraising today and tomorrow to take the Red Line to & from Park Street / Alewife, I'll make a fifty dollar bet you'll encounter at least one "moderate" service delay in either direction.
THAT is what we are up against as voters and commuters, an aging unreliable public transportation system whose burdgeoning problems the Governor is managing via what abouts to creative accounting.
I mean if anyone is actually looking for a practical issue on the campaign trail that is...

Donald Trump is:

(regardless of the date cited on his birth certificate) the first authentic Millennial President.
Consider by all accounts he cannot think at all without the intervention of his own smartphone...said device is literally on his own personal at all times, utterly unfiltered with respect to his attempts to literally the govern the nation from a curatorial remove on social media.
And then there is the President's Personality...like any fourteen year old boy he can only seem to feel about four emotions in total.
Those are:
Rage, Cringeworthy Triumphalist Gloating, Toxic Self Pity & Bitter Envy.
After that nothing, dead air quite literally.  
So at this point its like being governed by a fourteen year old boy, the results are convoluted and catastrophic with near constant referral to social media. Perhaps though, we should be grateful, given the grotesque and harmful reach of Trump's Platform we should be grateful that he is also far too distracted and incompetent to be an even greater threat to our liberties.
 Or as Abraham Lincoln once rusticated:
 “Jim used to say his brother was the damnedest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence he was also the damnedest fool.”