I remember when my family moved up here to Zone 5b, in the summer of 68. And while we were on the road, RFK was shot, and when we arrived in our new house, I watched RFK's funeral train make its way down the East Coast. The TV was black and white, and I was just in high school, so that was a long time ago.

Sentiment tested on single-payer health care

Is health care a human right that should be provided through a Medicare-type program for people of all ages?

Many local voters will have the opportunity to weigh in Tuesday on a non-binding referendum that will be on the ballot in a number of Massachusetts communities, including nearly all towns on the Cape and Martha's Vineyard.

Known as Question 4 in most towns — or questions 5 and 6 in some Vineyard towns and Orleans — the ballot item is backed by the groups Mass Care and Cape Care, which have called for a single-payer health insurance program in Massachusetts and Barnstable County.

Democratic Presidents have always had lower deficits except for Bill Clinton who produced a surplus

The stock market does better under Democrats

life is better under Democrats.

vote like your job depends upon it.

The Bad Magician is two months shy of his tenth birthday. He is in a kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Bobby Kennedy lies on the floor, bleeding, dying; the kitchen lights are dark stars and the floor is the bottom of the night. One almost got through, almost touched The Everything, but the Universe was having none of it.

The Bad Magician sits for thirty-eight years in that kitchen. Everything that followed led ineluctably to the shattering of forms.

Seems like it is up there in Maine:

"As much as we can say in sound science that something is impossible," Freeman said, "it is impossible that the discrepancies between predicted and actual vote count in the three battleground states of the 2004 election could have been due to chance or random error."

So, I called Snowe's office. I told the staff member who answered that I was calling because I was very upset having just read Kennedy's article and I wanted Sen. Snowe to look into the matter, read the article, call for an investigation. I'm sorry to not be able to quote his answer precisely, but the gist of what he said was, "the article was written by a Kennedy. We wouldn't pay any credence to that."

I've been a little slow to formulate this rebuttal to Manjoo's response, in Salon, to Robert Kennedy's article on the Republican theft of Ohio 2004--perhaps because there's so much detail (and rebuttal (never mind the obfuscation)).

But if you boil it down, it seems to me that what Manjoo is saying is that Kennedy didn't prove there was fraud, therefore there was no fraud.

But the essence of fraud is concealment; Kennedy can't produce absolute proof (absent confession, or an investigation by Democrats with subpoena power). So Manjoo's article sets up a straw man.

But it really seems to be that the burden of proof is on the Republicans and their apologists to prove the election was clean.

Let's simplify the example, leave out Ohio and votes, and do a little thought experiment.

Let's say your friend was going to count out some money for you, that both you and your friend agree that you are owed. But you don't know the exact amount of money you are owed. Can you trust your friend? I'd like to say yes, but let's see. Here are the conditions: