Capuano doesn’t support Israel’s right to self-defense?
I just sent this letter to my Congressman, Michael E. Capuano:
Category Archives: Government activism
Support for Israel from Boston City Councilors is spotty
Several of Boston’s City Councilors, including Jerry McDermott, who represents my district, signed the ad in support of Israel recently published by the CJP. I sent Mr. McDermott a letter thanking him for his support. Alas, three at-large City Councilors, at least two of which I voted for in the last election, did not sign.… Read More »
Help stop the genocide in Darfur!
More than 400,000 people have been killed in Darfur since the genocide started in 2003. More than 2.5 million people have been displaced. Five thousand people die each month in the ongoing slaughter. We must stop the killing.
HMO as (bad) doctor
My wife and I each recently received letters from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, our health insurer through my employer. These letters introduced us to a program being run by BCBS which, to put it bluntly, is wrong, wrong, wrong.
Spammed by my own Senator
I just sent this complaint to Senator Edward Kennedy’s office through the form on his Web site:
“Papers, please.”
On the 9th of December 2005, Deborah Davis will be arraigned in U.S. District Court in a case that will determine whether Deb and the rest of us in the USA live in a free society, or in a country where we must show “papers” whenever a cop demands them. One morning in late September… Read More »
Junk faxes: The FCC falls down on the job
After a long hiatus, I recently started receiving junk faxes again. Having tired of the rigmarole of figuring out who sent them and how to sue them in small claims court, and being cognizant of the fact that a recent Massachusetts superior court ruling may in fact preclude suits against junk faxers by individuals in… Read More »
Vote!
Tomorrow is election day in the US. Since it’s an odd year, there are no elections for Federal offices tomorrow, except perhaps for a few special elections scattered here and there. Nevertheless, if there is a state or local election in your community, and you are eligible to vote, and you don’t vote tomorrow, then… Read More »
An Object Lesson in Incompetence at the Social Security Administration
Before I had a blog, I wrote this article about the Social Security Administration losing my newborn daughter’s social security card, refusing to send a new one, and refusing to fix the bug in their computer systems which caused the card to be lost. Read the article there, then comment here if you wish!