I just participated in a telephone conference call town hall meeting with Mike Capuano.

This lead me to do a little research on the web where I found this story from WBUR.

Follow this link to hear the audio of a radio report on what he did to establish an ethics body to investigate the ethical behavior of members of the House of Representatives. (I must admit his calling members of the Enterprise Institute “academics” was almost more than I could stomach.)

Follow this link to Mike Capuano’s campaign web site.

Having read the book How We Decide, by Jonah Lehrer, I know that I am trying to find reasons to justify my gut reaction that I like Representative Capuano as a candidate for the U.S. Senate seat once held by Ted Kennedy.  I like to think that at least if I had found stuff not to like, I would have been able to change my mind. So far, the story just gets better as far as I am concerned.

Also I realize, having read Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nicholas Taleb, that I am tending to look for confirmation of my preconceived notion when it might be more powerful to search for a counter argument. I’ll depend on my readers to present me with counter-arguments.