I am sorry to say that I found the last debate very unsatisfying. I was very hard pressed to think how Martha Coakley could have handled the two bozos without coming off looking like Al Gore correcting George Bush.

I finally think I figured out what the problem is.  Brown and Kennedy are throwing out so much junk that it would take anyone longer to explain what is wrong with what they are saying than it would take to just explain what is right with what the Democrats and Coakley herself are trying to accomplish.

Rather than refute what either of the other two had to say by referencing anything they had to say, she need to explain how the plans are going to work.  She did squeeze in a little of how the Health Care plan and the rescuing of the economy are tied together.  How fixing the health care system will save money and help business to prosper by taking off some of the burden of the cost of supplying health care insurance to their employees.

Incidentally she would be touching on all the points to knock down what Brown or Kennedy are saying.

She could talk about how a healthy economy is boosted by business doing what they are supposed to do and government doing what it is supposed to do.  There are investments such as education, helping funding basic research, building and maintaining infrastructure, and formulating and enforcing laws and regulations that are what the government does.  If government doesn’t hold up its end of the bargain, then businesses has a very difficult time doing what they should be focusing on.  During the past decade we have been underfunding the government end of things (except for over funding war).  Things are getting out of balance and need to be put back in balance.

She could dominate the conversation and keep the other bozos from interjecting their craziness.  Once you let them set the message, it is very hard to get it back.  The other candidates could be forced to talk on her terms about what is wrong with her explanation.  Then they would be suffering the problem that she is now suffering.

Follow this link to the final debate in the Massachusetts Senate special election.

I think it was a pretty useless debate myself.

Scott Brown spouting numbers that he either doesn’t understand or if he does, he does not want you to understand.

There is not much Martha Coakley can do without coming off looking like Al Gore correcting George Bush.  We know how well that turned out.  She is the successful politician, I am not.  I just hope she knows the best way to handle the other two bozos.

There is hardly a need to say much about Joseph Kennedy.  He knows so little about how the economy works or what power a single Senator bucking the other 99  Senators has, that he might as well run for Senator of Alice’s Wonderland.

The only hope is that the electorate is smart enough not to want to be bamboozled by such foolishness.

The poll numbers seem to be showing that except for the readers of the Worcester T & G, the voters of Massachusetts have this figured out.

Follow this link to the above titles Associated Press news story with the sub-headline Police beat reform protesters.

The investigation found Mortazavi pushed for keeping the prisoners in Kahrizak, a detention camp, instead of the official Evin prison in Tehran, although Evin prison said at the time it had room for the imprisoned protesters.

Set up as a temporary detention facility, Kahrizak did not fall under the same type of regulations and supervision as official prisons such as Evin. There were no family visits, or facilities to have such visits, and the site was not originally intended for use as a prison.

I see no parallels here between this story and anything that has been done by the U.S. government.

However, I am sure that some wacky, bleeding-heart liberal will make something of it.

The type of enhanced interrogation, military tribunals, and imprisonment in Gitmo that are advocated by Scott Brown have no similarity to what Iran did. Therefore, we have no fear that anything like this could ever happen here.

Maybe, just to be sure, we need to write laws detailing exactly who can and cannot be tortured. Which human beings deserve to be treated humanely and which can be beaten to death. We could even make a Constitutional amendment with the details.

Follow this link to the story whose full title is Why light intensifies the pain of migraine even among the blind discovered.

The study looked at two groups.

Those in the first set were completely blind and were unable to sense light or see images.

The second group were legally blind which meant that although they were unable to see images they could detect the presence of light.

While the patients in the first group did not experience any worsening of their headaches from light exposure, the patients in the second group clearly described intensified pain when they were exposed to light, in particular blue or grey wavelengths,” said Prof Burstein.

They had me up until the grey wavelengths. But I jest.  The story is really worth reading if you are or were a migraine sufferer or know someone who is.  For many years, I used to suffer from these kinds of headaches.

I was going to post this story anyway, but when I saw Richard’s health related posts I knew I was on the right wavelength for the day.  (Originally accidental pun now intended.)