Progressive Fitchburg

"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them..." - Thomas Jefferson

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Fundamentalists are funny

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This is pretty entertaining. It's just these guys reciting stuff that they got from online fundamentalist forums (like the S&E Topix...
Monday, March 30, 2009

Save Fitchburg is no more!

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Well damn, this is sort of sad. It seems that Jason at Save Fitchburg , the biggest and oldest local political blog, has called it quits. T...
Friday, March 27, 2009

Attack of the Vampire Schoolgirls!

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Hey everyone, listen up! It's time to start stockpiling garlic and crosses, because there's an outbreak of vampirism in Boston! I...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

Movies!

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Well, this is really neat. On my daily romp through the local blogs (a romp which is getting shorter, since not a lot of people are writing ...

In which a couple of city councilors earn my respect

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In my perusing of the local news yesterday, I saw and skipped over this article , because it seemed boring.* Boy, was I wrong! The Progressi...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Tuesday video of fun!

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No news has moved me to write today, and I'm not in the mood to go digging for something, so instead please enjoy this old Dead Milkmen ...
Monday, March 23, 2009

The problem with civility

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I've written and discarded multiple posts about the term "civility" and the way it's used as a weapon to silence dissent. ...
Sunday, March 22, 2009

You're invited to Jeff McMenemy's pity party!

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Today I rolled out of bed to find that the official Progressive Fitchburg car crash correspondent had sent me a hot tip: Sentinel Editor Jef...
Friday, March 20, 2009

Still waiting for one valid argument...

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I knew it. This tedious issue of illegal immigration has moved on from just outraging stupid people on message boards. I heard stupid people...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

Police Chief says something smart, outraging stupid people

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Some days when I check the local newspaper for my daily fix of "what a fucking stupid world this is," I find something that I just...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Web 2.0. Yay.

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So, I've been hearing lately that the Republicans have beaten the Democrats in the only metric that truly matters: Twitter usage . For i...
Monday, March 16, 2009

Ghosts are more interesting than streetlights

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Oh, what an embarrassment of riches I'm faced with today! Checking the S&E today, I see it contains not only the dumbest editorial e...
Friday, March 13, 2009

The full text of my new subheading quote thing

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I updated my subheading thingy at the top of the page today, and turned it into a Jefferson quote. Since it's a partial quote, I'll ...

Too terrible for words

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Okay, I've tried multiple times to put together a post about this story , and I just can't do it. The above headline basically says...
Thursday, March 12, 2009

Whiny babies, commence whining!

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Ugh, more boring crap about streetlights being shut off. Didn't I write about this awhile ago? (Yes, I did !) Well, now the plan is actu...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

People are running for office!

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Oh boy! Yesterday we had the heartwrenching news that we lost the only challenger to Lisa Wong for mayor. Today, we find out that we in fact...
Monday, March 09, 2009

And then there were one...

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Remember a couple of weeks ago when some crazy lady announced she was running for mayor against Lisa Wong? Well, she's not anymore. Yes,...
Friday, March 06, 2009

Your Friday music video of fun

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Man, everything is too boring to write about lately. Instead, here's a good video by The Coup that you can watch. Music, like comedy, i...
Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Civic Engagement, Ahoy!

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I'm not in a huge writing mood, so I'm going to pass along something that relates a bit to this post from last week, in which I dem...
Friday, February 27, 2009

More Zombies!

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Yesterday's post about zombie politicians has put me in mind of zombies. Though, to be honest, pretty much everything puts me in mind of...
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