There will be far too much written and said about yesterday’s election in Massachusetts, 99% of which will not be worth the time or trouble to pay any attention to. So I don’t think I’m going to add my own bloviating, but I will share this clip from Monday’s “The Daily Show” wherein Jon Stewart manages to say the 1% that IS worth paying attention to:
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I’ll also share a quote I saw elsewhere today. An unnamed Massachusetts Democratic Party figure is quoted as saying:
Better Scott Brown for two years than Martha Coakley for a lifetime
That’s probably more indicative of the reality here in Massachusetts than anything anyone in the media (except Jon, of course) has to offer.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
