Dirty laundry and publicity murders

We got the bubble headed bleached blonde Comes on at five She can tell you ’bout the plane crash With a gleam in her eye It’s interesting when people die Give us dirty laundry –Don Henley Another day, another publicity murder.  At least that’s...

Intellectual Honesty?

I have spent a fair amount of time recently talking to reporters. “Where do you stand on gun control?” is a variation on a question I get asked a lot. My answer is usually nuanced, but I often will turn the question around.  My counter is: “What...

MA in the news

As you may remember, we relocated the club headquarters to MA after a leadership change, and the local paper picked up the fact we existed. So they ran a story: http://newton.wickedlocal.com/article/20150813/NEWS/150818099 Its a good article, and its gotten some...

Bernie Sanders

I like the guy, I really do. I am with him on greater than 90% of his positions. However, recently he did an interview with NPR, to “clarify” his position on guns, and it sounds like he got himself some DNC party line advisors to write his position, rather...

Tragedy in Charleston, SC

Another tragedy, dare I say terrorist attack, and we are treated to another series of hand wringing by pundits and politicians all around. I won’t summarize, it was a terrible day for 9 families and a much larger community. The Charleston mayor said this, which...