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[float=right][/float]A lot is being said and written about the effect of a Coakley loss (or win) on Tuesday including:

"When you're accused of something as heinous as child molestation, people are very reluctant to do anything.

And it takes years and years and years for the media to catch up with something like this. And once they did and once the Wall Street Journal starting taking an interest in my case, which is a very conservative law and order type of a newspaper, it kind of put up the antennas for everyone else ...

(Simulblogged here.)

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a convoluted(*) unemployment insurance system, under which employers are required to make various quarterly and annual filings and quarterly payments involving at least two different state agencies.

David Kravitz, an editor of Blue Mass Group takes on EaBo, an editor of Red Mass Group, with gusto:

"The debate basically cemented my extremely reluctant vote for Coakley, with hopes that either she grows into the job or that someone better beats her in the Democratic primary in two years."
- David Yamada 1/12/2010 9:46AM

I suspect a lot of liberals feel the way David Yamada does. I do but I come to a different conclusion about how I should vote. Follow me on this, I’ll explain.

A lot of liberals are extremely reluctant to vote for Coakley and they do so only by holding out hope that she would become a much better Senator than we have any evidence of or reason to believe. Yes ‘ouch’ but true in my estimation.

The problem with the low-key cautious campaign that race leaders with large leads frequently choose to run is that the public does not get to know their candidate very well.

I have "Slang O' The Day" as a panel on my iGoogle page. What to my wondering eyes should appear this morning as the first of three entries ? "Wicked pissa." I nearly gagged on my French Toast when I read the entry:
"Origin: American Slang (Boston)
Definition: very funny
Example: Hey Franky, that movie was wicked pissa!"
http://slang.otheday.com/2010/01/wicked-pissa/

It seems that the Boston accent isn't the only thing others can't get right...

Due to circumstances beyond our control, the Red Line will be forced to stop busing passengers and move our customers with a subway between JFK and Park St. We will provide additional subway cars to lessen your inconvenience. You will be able to re-board your bus and finish your journey after the short subway diversion.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Yesterday, I dutifully sent in my letter supporting the state House bill protecting major parks from overshadowing by beyond-zoning towers. Today, I find out that "a request was made" to exempt the Greenway from the protective legislation -- so that the BRA can proceed to legalize all those unlawful towers it plans to encourage along the Greenway corridor. Well, gosh, who might have made such a request? Perhaps Mayor Tom Menino, who is officially opposed to the bill, the same Menino who told the Boston Globe last September that we must not canyonize and overshadow the park?

Twenty organizations, including several that represent coalitions of organizations, got together last week on December 3, 2009 for a Strategy Meeting. We discussed how we can work together to improve our parks in Boston, including both those in the city park system and the state park system, that together, are OUR PARK SYSTEM. A number of good ideas came out around the at-large city council debate on parks and open spaces that we organized in October, and at the meeting we added to them. Then we refined the list, voted on priorities, and discussed the first several in greater detail.

Hey I'm just wondering what exactly is a Massachusetts liberal? Specifically how does an MA liberal differ from other liberals from other parts of the country that also have an obvious large liberal majority such as California or NY?

Bush called Kerry this during a debate some years back and I never knew what he meant by that. Does it mean a liberal who also supports gay marriage since MA was the only state to pass that law?

Any honest answers appreciated. Thanks.