Blue v. Red
Multi-job-site days always disrupt my posting routine, but I was rewarded with an encouraging exchange at my second stop. Two glass guys from the cape were installing a shower door as I put trim around the large vanity mirror. When they broke out the hammer drill to put screw anchors in the marble around the…
For the record, I have no trouble denouncing these people — a denunciation in which I include both the subject of the linked post and those who associate with its poster. By suggesting that I might “think like” the “God hates fags” lunatics, Crowley illustrates his profound lack of reading comprehension skills and vicious disregard…
I remain reluctant to relinquish the innocence that leads to my being surprised that such people as Pat Crowley exist outside of Charles Dickens novels and the bureaucracies of totalitarian madhouse societies. Last April, I informed readers of the Providence Journal opinion pages that, “according to tax returns filed in 2005 and 2006 (based on…
There may really be reason for concern about terrorism among domestic hate groups: After Tancredo entered the room, protesters kept him from speaking by shouting insults and holding a sign declaring “no dialogue with hate” in front of his face. Tancredo waited calmly while protestors held the sign and chanted… After protestors exited the hallway,…
National Education Association of Rhode Island Executive Director Bob Walsh expresses puzzlement over Colleen Conley’s being allowed to be the spokesperson for the RI Tea Party: on Buddy’s show on Ch. 6 on Sunday – he went fairly easy on her after she could not answer basic questions about the size of RI’s budget or…
In the seven years or so since Fox News came on the scene in a real big way, the back and forth about which station is conservative and which is liberal has become redundant, and it’s rare that examples are interesting, but an email from Our Country Deserves Better PAC highlights a telling scene. Here…
Sometimes, one reads statements that leave the impression that the center line of American politics is a portal from one reality — with its own intellectual and moral standards — and another. Among the (predictable) criticisms being directed toward the Providence tea party is that the vast majority of those in attendance were light skinned,…
I have to say that I’m disappointed at this quotation from Tom Sgouros in a Providence Business News article: The burden of state and local taxes has shifted from upper-income to middle-income Americans over the last two decades, “so people have a right to be angry, because the vast number of people are paying more…
This is a topic that I intend to consider from a couple of angles for some posts tomorrow, but it’s worth making the general suggestion that attempts by various folks to define yesterday’s tea party in Providence as something that it wasn’t, or in a light that doesn’t really apply, suggests that they just don’t…
Stream, Download This is one of those times in history when a society must make a decision. Social commentators of the near future will say one of two things about us: If we fail to be heard, then these tea parties, these expressions of outrage across the nation, are the final lunge of a fading…
