Author: MassCommons

Over the weekend, I got into a couple of discussions on the Intertoobz about politics and warfare:  the same or different?  Discuss. I come down on the “different” side; and given the number of war...

“We may be on the brink of a religious realignment, whereby the issues on which Christians argued, fought, killed, and persecuted each other (and others) since the sixteenth century are giving way to a different source of...

If three examples make a column, then four makes…a fad?  A happening?  A trend? Walking around the neighborhood (35 foot zoning height limit, mostly 2 & 3 story houses and small apartment buildings) the other...

And the hits just keep coming. Brian McGrory had another scathing column in yesterday’s Boston Globe about the scandal of executive compensation at Liberty Mutual ($50 million a year for the CEO of an insurance company...

“The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of...