A week from today is election day. In Massachusetts, there will be three statewide ballot questions in addition to candidate elections. These ballot questions are important and I strongly urge all registered voters in Massachusetts (if you’re not registered, register before the next election!) to visit the polls and weigh in. I recommend voting no… Read More: Massachusetts 2010 ballot questions: no, no, and no »
According to the AP and many other news outlets, Clarence Thomas’s wife, Virginia Thomas, recently left a voicemail message for Anita Hill in which she asked Hill to consider apologizing for “what you did with my husband.” When asked about it, Virginia Thomas said she was “extending an olive branch to her after all these… Read More: Anita Hill, Virginia Thomas, and double-speak »
Dear Terry Gross, I am a huge fan of Fresh Air. I listen to every episode. I greatly admire your interviewing skill and your obvious in-depth preparation for every interview. Having said that, I was extremely disappointed by your interview with Lawrence Wright.
According to Margery Eagan in today’s Herald, both Deval Patrick and Charlie Baker support “some type of road testing for the elderly.” Independent gubernatorial candidate Tim Cahill? Not so much: “I don’t want to take away licenses from able-bodied people or force them to go through a driver’s test,” he said. What the Legislature did,… Read More: Can you say “pandering to the elderly”? Tim Cahill can. »
Here’s what they printed: A loser’s game The condition of our economy proves the absurdity of John Stossel’s argument that gambling should be legal because, “People are responsible for the consequences of their bad habits” (“Is it your choice to gamble? You betcha!” May 14). We’re digging ourselves out of the worst recession since 1929… Read More: My letter about gambling in today’s Boston Herald »
Yet another chapter in the saga of the political spam I can’t seem to put a stop to, courtesy of ex-Congressman Robert Wexler. I’ve just been spammed by Scott Maddox, who is running for Florida Commissioner of Agriculture & Consumer Services. Like I care!
In a February 10 column printed in the Boston Herald, Jonah Goldberg repeats the anti-global-warming canard that severe snowstorms are evidence against global warming. In response, I sent the following letter to the editor: To the editor: Jonah Goldberg’s recent suggestion that severe winter weather disproves global warning shows an alarming ignorance of basic science.… Read More: Boston Herald as cog in the vast right-wing anti-global-warming conspiracy »
To: letterstoeditor@bostonherald.com To the editor: I enjoyed Joe Fitzgerald’s recent satire of the pro-life movement. I laughed so hard coffee came out my nose when I read that “the only choice [the pro-choice movement] will tolerate is its own.” It was obvious that he was joking, since it’s so patently absurd to suggest that people… Read More: Boston Herald’s Joe Fitzgerald aspires to be the next George… »
Last November, I posted on my blog a copy of a letter which I faxed to Congressman Robert Wexler, in which I chastised him for giving my email address (which I gave him when I made a donation to his campaign, so that he could send me a receipt) to another politician’s campaign and demanded… Read More: Congressman Robert Wexler ignores spam complaint, continues to bombard my… »
In today’s Boston Herald: Learn from Israel Monday, January 11, 2010 The Israelis do not use racial profiling for airport security (“European response mixed to new U.S. security demands,” Jan. 4). They use profiling, which includes patterns of behavior, coordination of intelligence and sophisticated modeling of which country of origin as but one factor. Interviews… Read More: Family “Letters to the Editor” Score: +1 »