MD in MA

Comments & Recommends

• Location Newton, MA
• Party Dem
• Politics Progressive-- I'm a congenital Democrat--my first policital memory is participating in a torch-lit motorcade for JFK in 1960.

Favorites

• Favorite Blogs TPM (of course) 538.com (this election cycle Eschaton Americablog DailyKos Firedoglake
• Favorite Books Fiction--Brothers Karamazov, Great Gatsby, anything by Philip Roth. Nonfiction--Niall Ferguson, Barrington Moore
• Favorite Quotes "Can't anybody here play baseball?"--Casey Stengel about the '62 Mets

Bio

I grew up in suburban NJ where my father was as Essex County Democratic Committe member , attended college in Boston, medical school in Albany, residency in Baltimore and settled outside of Boston when my wife (also a physician) and I completed our training. I have two daughters-ages 19 and 13