I was only half-watching the news last night, but I have to tell you - the smug, smiling Patrick groupie explaining why it's just groovy that DevalPatrick.com lets you look up the address of pretty much every single Massachusetts resident of voting age really, really bugged me.

Kid, go spend some time with some domestic-abuse victims (as Channel 5's Janet Wu obviously did, because she typed in the name of one and found where she now lived), then come back with that perky smile of yours.

Chris Lovett details the seven-person race for Jimmy Kelly's old city-council seat in South Boston, the South End and Chinatown.

John Daley suspects it's because the local anti-war movement has been hijacked by the loonie left:

... With speakers flinging four-letter words from the bandstand, advocating dismantling the state and later, upon seeing police bikes along Tremont Street, exclaim over the PA, "I didn't know pigs could ride bikes," it's no wonder that mainstream (or in this case, all) politicians and most working people stayed away.

Sco lists initial contenders for the First Suffolk and Middlesex senate district, which includes East Boston, the North End, Winthrop, most of Revere and parts of Cambridge.

Trevor Wright goes to a meeting of the state Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth. He spots gay-hater Amy Contrada, taking pictures of all the people there. He whips out his camera and starts taking pictures of her:

Somebody might find this funny, I suppose.

Is there one? The Blue Mass. Boys wonder if their copy got lost in the mail:

... I don't know what to talk about if I don't hear from Deval's flacks. I wander around confused and listless, not knowing what to say to make people really, really like Deval again. ...

The sanest perhaps, but not the only one (need to know more? Of course you do).

The Outraged Liberal analyzes the latest out of New Beford; concludes the feds know exactly how to time a staged raid; the new staties need to seriously get their act together and fast - except for DSS Commissioner Harry Spence and Patrick flack Nancy Fernandez Mills, who, he says, just need to resign.