“Is th’ race dyin’ out?” asked Mr. Dooley.
“Is it what?” replied Mr. Hennessy.
“Is it dyin’ out?” said Mr. Dooley. “Th’ ministhers an’ me frind Dock Eliot iv Harvard say it is. Dock Eliot wud know diff’rent if he was a rale dock an’ wint flying up Halsted Sthreet in a buggy, floggin’ a white horse to be there on time. But he ain’t, an’ he’s sure it’s dyin’ out. Childher ar-re disappearin’ fr’m America. He took a squint at th’ list iv Harvard gradjates th’ other day, an’ discovered that they had ivrything to make home happy but kids. Wanst th’ wurruld was full iv little Harvards. Th’ counthry swarmed with thim… In thim happy days some wan was always teethin’ in a Harvard fam’ly… But something has happened to Harvard. She is projoocin’ no little rah-rahs to glad th’ wurruld. Th’ av’rage fam’ly iv th’ Harvard gradjate an’ th’ jackass is practically th’ same…
“I took th’ statistics to Father Kelley… ‘If you see Dock Eliot’, he says, ‘ye can tell him th’ race ain’t dyin’ out very bad in this here part iv the wurruld. On th’ conthry. It ain’t liable to, ayether,’ he says, ‘onless wages is raised,’ he says. ‘Th’ poor ar-re becomin’ richer in childher, an’ the rich poorer,’ he says. ”Tis always th’ way,’ he says. “Th’ bigger th’ house th’ smaller th’ fam’ly… ‘Tis a way Nature has iv gettin’ even with th’ rich an’ pwo’rful. Wan part iv town has nawthin’ but money, an’ another nawthin’ but childher… Nature,’ he says, ‘is a wild dimmycrat,’ he says.

Whenever I hear this argument, I want to say, So what?

It is because the scary brown people’s population is not decreasing too.

I guess the conservatives even concede that their ideas can’t survive without their majority to impose them, and fail on the merits.

I particularly liked how he called Kennedy out for daring to call the lying, segregationist Alito a liar and a racist.

Since when is population reduction (or mere lack of growth) always a bad thing? Are we falling below sustainable levels of humanity?

Assuming that property values aren’t going to shit (which I assume they are not in Mass) and the economy is doing OK, who cares?

Whenever I hear this argument, I want to say, So what?

It was part of his “oppressive political culture” bitch. He also blamed it on Kennedy, Kerry, the Alito hearings (I’d love to see the polling data on that one), a year-round state lege for some reason, the lack of suicidal tax “relief” measures (like we’ve been doing here in Washington State for the past ten years or so), and, oddly enough, blue laws.

Because it’s okay to get drunk off your ass on a Sunday morning, but you’d better not even think about having sex with your same-sex spouse.

Norbizness has this guy pegged: Unfrozen Caveman Columnist.

So don’t give me any of that “Massachusetts is too expensive” crapola.

The cost of living along with the failure of the talented Romney and Swift Adminstrations to retain anything, other than the temple in Belmont for old Mitt the Twit, business related is the likely culprit for this.

Just look at the empty lab space that sits in Kendall Square. Seven years ago big pharma and small would have been all over that. Whatever the price was. Now with the sag in the economy, the loss of jobs and healthcare to pay for drugs, one of the Massachusetts leaders in jobs and revenue is downsizing daily.

Jacoby may be next on the downsizing chopping block over at the Globe and I’m not sure that would be such a bad thing.

P.S. How does a Cleveland native become a conservative? Jacoby needs to see a shrink or two.

But other than that, it’s a great place to live. I mean, I lived out in Ohio for four years. I know what I’m talking about.