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America Has Two Black Senators For the First Time Ever
Robert Kessler · 01/30/13 01:24PMThis morning, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced he would appoint William "Mo" Cowan as interim senator to fill newly appointed Secretary of State John Kerry's seat until a special election. Cowan was Gov. Patrick's chief of staff from January 2011 to November 2012; before that he served as Patrick's chief legal counsel.
Robert Kessler · 01/04/13 10:30AM
Here's Video of Mitt Romney Saying "It's Not Right" That Gay People Are Having Children
John Cook · 10/29/12 10:11AMLast week Murray Waas reported in the Boston Globe that as governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney refused to change the state's birth certificate to acknowledge legal births to same-sex parents. Gay couples with children were to cross out "mother" or "father" on the forms and write themselves in, leaving their children's official documents permanently altered. Romney later explained the thinking behind the decision this way: "Some gays are actually having children born to them. It's not right on paper. It's not right in fact." Here's the video.
Massachusetts Man Pleads Not Guilty to Booby Trapping Ex-Wife's Dryer to Explode
Taylor Berman · 10/26/12 08:57PMIn August, Dean Weeks, a firefighter in Clinton, Massachusetts, was ordered to fix his ex-wife's dryer as part of his divorce settlement. But apparently, he was still having some issues with his ex, so he (allegedly) did the reasonable thing, which is: he booby trapped her dryer to explode the next time she used it.
Mega Millions Jackpot Winner: My Girlfriend Just Dumped Me, 'Thank God'
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/18/12 02:05PMHow to Get Around Massachusetts' Anti-American Sparkler Ban
Caity Weaver · 07/02/12 03:37PMFines for Public Profanity Being Considered by Massachusetts Town
Neetzan Zimmerman · 06/11/12 02:20PMDowner Commencement Speaker: 'You Are Not Special. You Are Not Exceptional.'
Louis Peitzman · 06/09/12 01:49PMCollege Ruffians Expelled for Starring in Disturbing Shoe Attack Video
Lauri Apple · 12/07/11 11:15AMMitt Romney Has Not Gotten Any Less Awkward Since 1994
Jim Newell · 12/01/11 11:50AMAny day when even a single second of new footage of Mitt Romney trying to interact with human beings hits YouTube is going to be a good day, and here we've got four whole uncut minutes of it! This is quite a score, comedy-wise.
Why Doesn't CBS News Want You to Know This Mayor Is Gay?
Brian Moylan · 11/14/11 04:58PMLast night CBS News did a segment about Alex Morse, the newly-elected 22-year-old mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts. It's not only newsworthy that Morse is the country's youngest mayor, but also newsworthy that he's one of only a handful of openly gay mayors. So, why did they gloss over the second fact?
Karl Rove Joins the Battle Against Violent Hippie Monster Elizabeth Warren
Jim Newell · 11/10/11 01:24PMTo Occupy Harvard, You Need a Valid Harvard ID
Maureen O'Connor · 11/10/11 12:02PMCrazy Heckler Calls Elizabeth Warren 'Socialist Whore'
Jim Newell · 11/03/11 01:13PMWoman Needs to Chill Out About the Rogue Plastic Flamingos in Her Yard
Lauri Apple · 11/03/11 05:10AMEvery autumn for the past three years the well-intentioned senior boys and girls at Quincy High School in Quincy, Massachusetts have gone around sticking dozens of cheap plastic flamingos in people's yards along with signs asking for $20 donations. They call their activity "flocking." It's a harmless alternative to flash-robbing and other popular teen pastimes.
Scott Brown Is Apparently Bob Dole's Wife
Max Read · 10/12/11 10:55PM"I was raised to believe that there are no limits to individual achievement and no excuses to justify indifference," reads a message on Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown's website. Weirdly, former North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole said the exact same thing in her Senate campaign announcement speech in 2002. Which leads us to wonder: Is Scott Brown Bob Dole's Wife?
Elizabeth Warren's Bonanza Fundraising Haul
Jim Newell · 10/10/11 04:12PMScott Brown Relieved That Elizabeth Warren Never Posed Naked
Jim Newell · 10/06/11 11:39AMDon't Make Women's Bras 'Disappear' During Public Meetings
Lauri Apple · 09/29/11 05:00AMOpening public meetings with a magic trick or two can help you engage with your audience and ease them into the seemingly endless boredom-torture to come—but use discretion! Tricks that involve disappearing coins are probably fine. Tricks that involve disappearing women's undergarments are probably... not fine?