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    • Bush speaks on Global Warming! Here it is! Thanks to Oliver Willis.
    • Wall Street Journal to MA: Freeze to death So, the wise men of the Wall Street Journal editorial page (who, wags have said, don't read the actual fine reporting of that paper) have upbraided Rep. William Delahunt and...
    • "Give. Me. A. Break." Mike Wallace was on WBUR's On Point this morning. You simply must hear the one question that he would ask George Bush. I won't transcribe it, but start listening to...
    • Tim Murray in the Lt. Gov. race? Mariposa at Beyond 495 calls our attention to a most interesting tidbit in a holiday party invitation sent out by DDemDispatch: the invite notes that Worcester Mayor Tim Murray has...
    • A Teacher Runs in Foxborough An important update in the 1st Bristol race from Cos. --David There's a Democrat running in the 1st Bristol special election, but it's not Feeney. The Sun-Chronicle reported last week...
    • Bush Closes in On One Year Off W., who already holds the record for most vacation days ever taken by a President, is closing on a full year of R&R as the death toll in Iraq mounts,...
    • Candidate Questionnaires in the Somerville special election PDS member Cos reports on PDS's questionnaires and upcoming candidates forum for the State House seat vacated by Pat Jehlen's move to the Senate. --David The Progressive Democrats of Somerville...
    • More Patrick campaign tea leaves .08 acres points to this Adrian Walker column about Deval Patrick, which makes this intriguing comment: "I had called after reading that one of his top consultants, Dan Payne, had...
    • Cashing in their chips Now this is cool ... er, warm: Mt. Wachusett Community College has reduced its heating costs and CO2 output by switching to wood chips and other biomass fuels: Instead of...
    • Open Document, Insert Foot II: Electric Boogaloo Globe reports that the Romney administration is investigating Peter Quinn, director of the Informational Technology Division, for not getting permission to go to some out-of-state conferences: Romney administration officials are...

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    • November 25, 2005 | My open source software full disclosure
    Here's my full disclosure regarding open-source/Free software issues: My brother once worked for the Free Software Foundation, which essentially invented open-source; he now works for, and I have stock in,...

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    November 24, 2005 | Oh the huM&Mity!
    The NYT reports: In a replay of a similar 1997 incident, the M&M balloon at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City flew out of control, struck a...

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    Happy Thanksgiving
    I'm heading off to the homestead for the traditional gathering of family and friends, and the annual exercise in overeating. I chipped in a donation to Rosie's Place this morning....

    By David | Read Article | Comments (1)

    November 23, 2005 | The wingnut-wanker continuum, revealed at last!
    From the always hilarious Editors over at Poor man, this fantastic graph of political figures and pundits, plotted on an x-axis of wankery vs. a y-axis of wingnuttery (click to...

    By David | Read Article | Comments (0)

    November 18, 2005 | Heavy navel-gazing on the blogiversary
    So, we've been doing this for a year. I thought I'd share some personal thoughts... Early on in 2004, David and I started sending emails back and forth about doing...

    By Charley on the MTA | Read Article | Comments (2)

    Happy Birthday!
    As Bob said earlier this morning, today is Blue Mass. Group's first birthday. Frankly, a year ago I had no idea whether the three of us were cut out to...

    By David | Read Article | Comments (10)

    One Year for America and BMG
    A full 12 months have passed since David approached Charley and me with the idea for Blue Mass Group. Hurray for the thousands of activists that have united around this...

    By Bob | Read Article | Comments (1)

    November 06, 2005 | The West Wing "live debate"
    I just watched The West Wing's "live debate" between "presidential candidates" "Matt Santos" (Jimmy Smits) and "Arnold Vinick" (Alan Alda). Enjoyable, entertaining TV. Even some interesting political points made. But...

    By David | Read Article | Comments (3)

    October 16, 2005 | 100,000 and counting!
    I'm pleased to report that some time this morning Blue Mass. Group received its 100,000th unique visitor since we went online at the end of November 2004. It took us...

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    October 11, 2005 | Current.tv
    Current TV, the new San Francisco based cable channel chaired by Al Gore, offers a 24-hour stream of mini documentaries about ten minutes long. I watched the channel a lot...

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