Leland Cheung for Lt. Governor (MA)

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Tuesday September 09, 2014 · 4:51 AM PDT

2014/09/09 · 04:51

Today is Primary Day in Massachusetts.

If you are a Massachusetts voter, please don't let the day slip by without casting your vote. Besides the usual "doing your duty as a citizen" you have a good reason to show up at the polls today.

Leland Cheung is a remarkable guy, with a real plan to make something useful out of the usual-thing patronage job of Lieutenant Governor. If I didn't have to run to the polls myself, I'd stay and tell you about him. Instead, I'm going to give you two links: one to his own website and another to the Boston Globe's endorsement of his candidacy.

If you're voting in Massachusetts today, please consider this particular New And Better Democrat.

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10 votes Show Results

My choice in the MA primary for Lt. Governor

10 votes Vote Now!

My choice in the MA primary for Lt. Governor

Leland Cheung

9 votes

Mike Lake

0 votes

Steve Kerrigan

0 votes

Somebody Else

0 votes

Nobody

1 vote

A Reply To Rep. Bell

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Friday April 19, 2013 · 11:50 AM PDT

2013/04/19 · 11:50

Okay, so by now you've probably seen State Rep. Nate Bell's (R-AR) stupid tweet this morning — as @NateBell4AR:

I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes wishing they had an AR-15 with a hi-capacity magazine?

I saw it first in a blog post by the inimitable and indispensable Charlie Pierce. At his suggestion, I used Rep. Bell's contact info to offer some advise. As usual, see below. Read More

The Salt Lake Tribune???

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Friday October 19, 2012 · 3:28 PM PDT

2012/10/19 · 15:28

File under "Holy Crap!!!"

The Salt Lake Tribune has endorsed President Obama fo re-election. (Maybe someone has posted about this already, but I don't see it yet.)

http://bit.ly/...

Politicians routinely tailor their words to suit an audience. Romney, though, is shameless, lavishing vastly diverse audiences with words, any words, they would trade their votes to hear.

More after the jump.
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Wednesday September 05, 2012 · 5:19 PM PDT

2012/09/05 · 17:19

We've got a primary election tomorrow here in Massachusetts. I don't know a lot about the local candidates for Councillor, State Rep, etc. for my town. You'd think that it wouldn't be all that hard to find some online endorsements by various progressive, labor, environmental groups, would you? If you thought that, you would be wrong.

I've found a labor endorsement for State Senator, but otherwise, nothing.

Of course, I can wade through the candidates' websites and try to separate the shirt from shinola. But my point is that some organizations are missing an opportunity here.

Can someone please explain?

dryfoo

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Tuesday August 07, 2012 · 6:17 PM PDT

2012/08/07 · 18:17

(Short one, and I hope your comments will help.)

Can someone please explain why the wingers I hear from have started yammering about Pres. Obama's college transcripts? Is it true that they're all sealed? If so, has he said why? If not, WTF? Et cetera. I'm genuinely not getting the What or Why of this.

Too Good For GoComics

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Monday March 29, 2010 · 8:20 AM PDT

2010/03/29 · 08:20

There's a Comments section under each comic at GoComics.com. I originally posted this in the running comments under today's Doonesbury, which is about a Teabagger rally. But I thought I really should share it here.

dryfoo

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Friday January 15, 2010 · 8:25 AM PST

2010/01/15 · 08:25

Like most of the rest of you, I've been getting hammered for days now, by email, phone, text message; from senators, governors, House reps, activist groups, even the President, to support Martha Coakley in her chase for the Massachusetts seat in the US Senate.

Up till now, I haven't posted here my reasons for not supporting her. But this devastating piece by Dorothy Rabinowitz sums up all my concerns. Here's a taste:

If the current attorney general of Massachusetts actually believes, as no serious citizen does, the preposterous charges that caused the Amiraults to be thrown into prison—the butcher knife rape with no blood, the public tree-tying episode, the mutilated squirrel and the rest—that is powerful testimony to the mind and capacities of this aspirant to a Senate seat.

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201 votes Show Results

Martha Coakley, really?

201 votes Vote Now!

Martha Coakley, really?

I didn't know this before, but I'm still supporting her.

44 votes

I didn't know this before, and now I can't support her.

29 votes

I already knew this about Coakley, but I'm supporting her anyway.

30 votes

I already knew this about Coakley, which is why I won't support her.

34 votes

We have to support any Democrat no matter what they've done.

18 votes

I've got other reasons for not supporting her.

32 votes

No pie for me today, thanks. I'm just sick to my stomach over this.

14 votes

What he said/ What I said

dryfoo

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Monday December 21, 2009 · 6:59 PM PST

2009/12/21 · 18:59

Found this in my email inbox. Here's what he said:

Early this morning, the Senate made history and health reform cleared its most important hurdle yet -- garnering the 60 votes needed to move toward a final vote in that chamber later this week.

This marks the first time in our nation's history that comprehensive health reform has come to this point. And it appears that the American people will soon realize the genuine reform that offers security to those who have health insurance and affordable options to those who do not.

I'm grateful to Senator Harry Reid and every senator who's been working around the clock to make this happen. And I'm grateful to you, and every member of this community, for all the work you have done to make this progress possible.
...

You can read the rest of the statement at the my.barackobama.com website.

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Tuesday August 18, 2009 · 1:41 AM PDT

2009/08/18 · 01:41

[I just posted this at my new my.barackobama.com blog, and thought it would be appropriate here as well.]

Mister President, you'd like us all out there, twittering and calling and writing and visiting and facebooking away, supporting your Health Care Reform efforts. Well you could make it a little easier for us if we didn't have to slog through quicksand for you.

This trial balloon (at least, that's what I hope it is) about maybe you'd be amenable to a HCR bill that didn't include a Public Option...? As the kids say, WTF? Seriously? Right now, it's painful enough watching the Senate's Private Secret Baucus Caucus dismembering HCR. Are you really trying to get us ready to accept some weak-tea half-measure? Really? Is that what we're supposed to be fighting for?

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How's your Health Care Insurance?

29 votes Vote Now!

How's your Health Care Insurance?

I have a good quality, affordable HCI and I'm happy with it.

12 votes

I have a HCI plan, but it kind of sucks.

1 vote

I do have a HCI plan now, but I don't know if I can afford it much longer.

1 vote

Well they call it HCI, but I think those bastards are trying to kill me!

1 vote

Insurance? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... You're kidding, right?

8 votes

Don't ask. You don't want to know.

4 votes

Pie. Summertime fresh peach pie. With a side order of Public Option, please.

2 votes

500 Characters in search of a point

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Saturday February 07, 2009 · 12:39 PM PST

2009/02/07 · 12:39

So there I am, at the sparkling new WhiteHouse.GOV website. Near the upper right-hand corner, there's a link marked "Contact us". Have you been there yet?

You get box that will hold 500 words, maximum, to ask the President a question or make a comment. (For a moment, I considered, "Why does the porridge bird lay his egg in the air?" but decided against it, thinking of what happened the last time.)

My five-hundred? Read on...

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28 votes Show Results

President Obama

28 votes Vote Now!

President Obama

is getting rolled by the GOP, and it's only going to get worse.

5 votes

has been rolled about as far as he's going. He knows better now.

3 votes

is just getting his first Washington Haircut, and will figure out what to do soon enough.

6 votes

knows what he's been doing all along, and is just waiting to bring that big left hand.

12 votes

Other: explain in comments

0 votes

What? No Stimulus Pie!!?!

2 votes

It ain't a diary and I don't give one good goddam

dryfoo

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Sunday January 18, 2009 · 10:08 AM PST

2009/01/18 · 10:08

(My subscription to The Nation has just expired, and I can't afford to renew it, so if I'm on the same wavelength as the ever-so-thrillin' Calvin Trillin this week -- well, sorry about that, Cal.)

Here's a Clerihew in honor of the upcoming Inauguration, Exorcism, and General Day of Merriment and Relief:

George Dubya Goddam Bush
Oh how we'd all love to give him a good swift kick in the tush!
But I'll be satisfied just to see him get the hell back to Texas
On Tuesday, before I sits myself down for Breaxfas'.

A Somewhat Brief Introduction to the I Ching

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Monday January 12, 2009 · 8:35 PM PST

2009/01/12 · 20:35

Earlier this evening, kafkananda posted a clever diary, wherein a photo of Obama and Biden smiling together suggested an I Ching hexagram, and thus a possible intuition of the future. I like his idea and his analysis. After you've finished this diary, go read his.

At least one commenter was baffled by the whole thing, being entirely unfamiliar with the subtle catalog of wisdom that is the I Ching. It occured to me that a brief description, with pictures, would be a help. But when I was done, my description wasn't so brief. So I thought that instead of just letting it languish as comment, I'd re-post it, as its own diary. Here. Your simplified introduction to the I Ching.

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Leland Cheung for Lt. Governor (MA)

A Reply To Rep. Bell

The Salt Lake Tribune???

A Useful Resource

Can someone please explain?

Too Good For GoComics

Martha Coakley is a s**t sandwich too far

What he said/ What I said

Mr. President, you could make it a little easier...

500 Characters in search of a point

It ain't a diary and I don't give one good goddam

A Somewhat Brief Introduction to the I Ching