In which a born-and-raised, dyed-in-the-wool Boston liberal (transplanted to New York) tries to make sense of the big old hulking electoral mess that is his home state right now.

Republican Scott Brown just won Massachusetts' Senate Deathrace™. Brown ran a killer campaign and has promised to kill Democrats' health care bill. And it's lucky his daughters didn't die of embarrassment, given what he said in his victory speech tonight.