Although this piece in The Boston Herald, this city’s conservative tabloid daily, has a bemused, if not derisive tone about the Brookline decision, this is the thing that small towns throughout the country need to start doing. In a curious sidelight, the local media has reported that Barney Frank, our congressional representative and no progressive slouch, had responded by saying (to paraphrase the reportage) that this is not an issue that should be decided by public opinion. Of course that is exactly how we are supposed to be governed. Frank was being taken sloppily out of context; he was responding to the impotence of the Congress to act, frustrated that public opinion alone does not seem to be making a difference in countering the reign of terror from the Oval Office. In fact, he himself called long ago for an impeachment investigation.

Related: Same theme of growing rage against the war and repudiation of our dysadministration. Massive volatile antiwar protests against Iraq-bound war supplies shipments escalate at the Port of Olympia, Washington State, as described in this coverage from The Olympian of an underreported event. As I have commented before, we need to highlight these upwellings wherever they occur, to hasten our arrival at the popular sentiment tipping point.