Giving Muppets a bad name

So that’s what Grover “I mean, [the estate tax on the wealthiest 2 percent] is the morality of the Holocaust” Norquist has been up to. Dude seems to get off on attempting to claim black is white. From a must-read at Think Progress: Net neutrality, a...
StageStruck: Sexy Stew

StageStruck: Sexy Stew

The title itself might raise a couple of eyebrows. And the content of Tricky Wicked Bitch could elevate them a little more—especially because this award-winning play, written by a Smith College junior, has been chosen as the production for graduation weekend,...

Imperium Watch: Not Just for Greedy Geezers

We’ve heard this too many times. Way too many times. Beginning with the first salvo of articles about President Obama’s budget, the familiar refrain was there again: “…he avoids tough choices on such big issues as Medicare, Medicaid and Social...

Letters: What Do You Think?

No Give, No Take I am by no means the only reader of the Advocate who continues to regret the loss of This Modern World and its replacement with Mild Abandon, a bland, boring, and unfunny substitute. Though the Advocate has published a number of letters complaining...

Wood-burning Plant Under Fire

Last week, the Patrick administration proposed strict new rules for “biomass” plants in the state, including limits on what kinds of wood could be burned in such plants. The regulations would also set high energy-efficiency thresholds that must be met for...