PANTS ARE AFLAME THEY ARE: U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once famously noted that we are all entitled to our own opinions but not to our own facts. Former Pennsylvania Senator and current presidential candidate Rick Santorum clearly missed that memo. As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, Santorum was bemoaning the state of U.S. higher … Continue reading
For the fourth year in a row, Massachusetts has the lowest percentage of residents without health insurance (4.9 percent), and Texas has the highest (27.6 percent), according to polling firm Gallup, Inc. In fact, there has been relatively little change in the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index of any state since 2008, suggesting that none have made … Continue reading
OUT AT THE PLATE: In Massachusetts, the best rides these days sport a special Boston Red Sox vanity license plate. The coolest of the cool have an ultra low number, preferably a single digit. So preferable, in fact, that Hollywood heartthrob and rabid Red Sox fan Ben Affleck dropped $50,000 a few years back for … Continue reading