Goon From The Moon
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9500 Liberty At Cable Car Through Thursday
Rhode island Premiere! Friday, May 28 through Thursday, June 3 Cable Car Cinema & Cafe Nightly 8:30 PM 204 South Main Street [youtube]rL-kbeZenaE[/youtube] Prince William County, Virginia becomes ground zero in America’s explosive battle over immigration policy when elected officials adopt a law requiring police officers to question anyone they have “probable cause” to suspect
“Collateral Murder”
Just unspeakably horrendous. Sorry for the downer, but important for people to see: Calling it a case of “collateral murder,” the WikiLeaks Web site today released harrowing until-now secret video of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter in Baghdad in 2007 repeatedly opening fire on a group of men that included a Reuters photographer and his
Governor Chooses Public Option For Flood Insurance
Why’s it okay to expect help from the Feds if there’s a flood, but not if you get diagnosed with cancer? Shouldn’t a truly responsible citizenry have fended for itself, and built better dams, or not lived somewhere prone to the occasional deluge to begin with? Or at the very least, purchased private flood insurance
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Another Crazy Person Announces For Mayor
The Democratic candidates are by no means entirely functional or rational humans, but they at least have some sense that affordable taxes AND decent city services are both important aims. Harrop is a right-winger to the max, who thinks city services ought not be funded — or especially that the people who fund them shouldn’t
WaPo Covers Mayor’s Troubles
On the Washington Post’s home page all day long- PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Mayor David Cicilline claims he has cleaned up Providence after the corruption of his predecessor, but his family relationships and connection to a former staffer could raise new questions about his reformer credentials. His father is a mafia lawyer. His brother just got
Time To Make Summer Plans
These celebrities have it right on: This video really makes me regret dropping out of camp, every single summer from the ages of 7 to 14. I think I just enjoyed watching the Price Is Right too much to spend my mornings spinning lopsided pottery. [youtube]V5orvqJPk7s[/youtube]
Death And Life Of The Great American School System
Diane Ravitch was a leading light of the education ‘reform’ movement for much of a career — but is recognizing that these ideas have largely failed, and are driving schools and students toward mediocrity, and creating new divisions along lines of race and class. [youtube]TSsip4cLDL0[/youtube]
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If We’re Gonna Keep On Arresting All These Women
The Propo should perhaps invest in a few pairs of these:
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Ruth Gets Called Out
Readers (or a reader or two) might remember Chas Pinning as the guy the mayor got a restraining order against, during that whole Armory dog-park versus softball field controversy of a little ways back. The guy can go over the top, but he sometimes eloquently speaks truth to power, about issues that actually matter… Ruth
“Our Women Are Beautiful And We Don’t Snort Cocaine”
That’s the Daily Dose’s mantra. And, coincidentally, the words of wisdom recently spoken by Jason Mattera, bombastic right-winger, and a proud product of the Roger Williams University College Republicans. (He’s the guy who started the Whites-Only Scholarship.) He made a big splash at CPAC over the weekend: Jason Mattera was seven minutes into his speech
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And This Is A Bad Thing?
Gordon Fox is the new Speaker of the House. To the chagrin of some– As the lawmakers started to emerge from their closed-door caucus, Rep. Arthur Corvese, D-North Providence, made public his letter of resignation as House Labor chairman, effective immediately. In it, he wrote: “I believe your philosophical stance on major issues is too
Tonight: I Heart Providence
This will be a good time, though it violates (what surely oughtta be) our policy of not indulging events with question marks listed as their ending times: Enjoy Japanese/Mexican fused Love Dumplings by Ebisu and El Rancho Grande. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres by Hudson Street Deli. Three cash bars, featuring I HEART PROVIDENCE martinis, by the
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
The Mayor has vetoed the City Council’s recent changes to the Providence External Review Authority, entity that’s meant to monitor police abuse, which has historically been higher in Providence than in all but a couple of other large cities. And he’s upped the ante, by having the City Solicitor sue the Council too. The Mayor
Death Purrs Twice: The Return Of Oscar The Cat
Maybe you really just have to be there, to understand what it is about Oscar that gives people comfort, and not just heebie-jeebies: “Obviously we’d love to be able to say that he’s helping the dying,” Dosa says. “That’s something we all hope for. We all have a fear of dying and the idea of
“Meh, meh. Blah, blah.”
The Governor delivered his final State of the State address last night. The Projo covers it here. Something about tax cuts. Something about unions causing trouble. Something about how the governor and his appointees are the bee’s knees. This just about sums it up: Reflecting an ideology that has persisted throughout his reign as governor,