Tuesday night at the White House, a little girl interrupted the closing music for the Biden’s Hannukah party speech to ask him “How can I become president?” He took the mic and answered: “Know who you want to help and that you’d rather lose the election than win by doing something you don’t believe ..read more

Now that the January 6th Committee has referred Donald Trump for prosecution for inciting and aiding an insurrection, and interfering in the peaceful transfer of power, the Department of Justice should prosecute him. Why? Because they must in order to expect anyone to believe that no one is above the law. They should seek a conviction from a jury whether they ultimately get it or not. It is absolutely essential to the future of our legal system that they do this. If they finally prosecute the man himself, there’s a higher than usual risk that there will be at least one juror who will ‘nullify ..read more

Thanks again to Joel Patterson for getting me on this site back when his son was a newborn and I was a teenager. Now his son is a teenager and I have a newborn! It’s been a wild ride. Thanks to Tom for his Davis Sq. Hospitality. Fred, Tommy, Mark Bail, and Terry for helping me find work in politics and Mark and Joel again for valuable advice when I transitioned to teaching. Thanks to Christopher for being a consistently civil sparring partner even when I wasn’t. And to the editors past and present, but especially Charley for keeping this going. I’m hoping Pablo and I can convince Greg Dennis a ..read more

So, if you win the creepy $99 digital photoshopped trading card prize and pay your own way to Mar-a-Lado, will you get a free tour of the classified documents? Or just take a screen shot and save the $99. And if you act now, you can get a free ‘my pillow ..read more

It’s been entertaining, informative, and in a way fun to have a space for Massachusetts Dems to exchange views ..read more

Fusion is clean and safe. If there’s an accident, it shuts itself off according to American theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. In the long run, in a few decades, the dictatorial regimes of the Saudis, the emirates, and the Russians are headed to dead ends ..read more

The 11th Circuit federal court of appeals puts an end to the shenanigans in the Mar-a-Lago documents case in an absolutely beautifully-written opinion by a three-judge appellate panel (two Trump appointees and one GW Bush appointee) that wraps up by citing to a Supreme Court opinion dating from the year 1794: “…Only one possible justification for equitable jurisdiction remains: that Plaintiff is a former President of the United States. It is indeed extraordinary for a warrant to be executed at the home of a former president—but not in a way that affects our legal analysis or otherwise gives th ..read more

**Conferences** TEDxMIT: What Defines a Mind? Sunday, December 4 ————— **Lecture Series** Economic Diversification in Nigeria: The Politics of Building a Post-Oil Economy Thursday, December 1 Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse Thursday, December 1 Susan Chomba: Will Ongoing Grand Restoration Schemes Reverse or Accelerate Biodiversity Loss? Thursday, December 1 Bradford Seminar: “Critical Data Gaps in Climate Change Adaptation Modeling” Monday, December 5 Inside Putin’s Head: The Threat of Nuclear Strike in Ukraine Monday, December 5 HMEI Faculty Seminar: “The Urb ..read more

For what looks to be the final time on BMG, I want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving.  I am thankful for recent Democratic success.  I am thankful to the editors for providing this forum for several years.  I am thankful for the many of you I have had the pleasure to converse with here, and I hope that we will meet again ..read more

The quote of this century from Richard Fierro, the hero of the Club Q shooting: “I needed to save my family. And my family was, at that time, everybody in that room ..read more