Last Tuesday, V hit the peak of her teething pain, cutting six molars at once. No one was getting much sleep. When a child goes through this we give them a cold washcloth to chew on. When we go though something like that, out dentist gives us Vicodin. Totally unfair. She bore up like a trooper though and the pain has been subsiding. Infant Tylenol ( Read more... )

I am voted. Are you?

Today is the Massachusetts special Senatorial election. If you have an opinion and live in our fair (and wacky) state, please vote.

Today are the primaries in the the special election for the Massachusetts US Senate seat. If you have an opinion, go and vote.

I yearn to live in a country where John Stuart has nothing to talk about each night.

All voted. No problems or irregularities, other than the full cafeteria spread in the hall outside my polling place. And that's not a problem really, just incredibly, deliciously odd.

Today I am yet again struck by the paralells between George Bush and Woodrow Wilson. Both are idealogues that used their office to execute their philosophy primarily and the good of the people secondarily. Both use the military to involve America in pointless foreign wars that earn us the emnity of many nations. Both rail against the dangers of the ( Read more... )

There was a fire yesterday on Moody street, about two blocks from my home. A paper photographer says that the fire started on under the Harley store and the klatch on the corner whisper about bad wires. A day later the building stands jagged and hollow. Open to the sky. Second story aluminum window frames are draped and drooping from the heat, ( Read more... )