As a Brooklynite, I’ve never had particularly warm feelings towards Massachusetts. Not to say that I have a problem with the place per se — it’s just never been my thing. But Dave Weigel’s reporting from the campaign trail is starting to change my mind.

And later I met Chris Wim from Lubbock, Texas, who said he’d come up because “these guys are firing the second shot heard round the round. First Scott Brown wins here, then we bring this to Texas.” Informed that he was from Texas, some of the Massachusetts activists gently ribbed Wim and told him to find an ACORN volunteer and get registered.

There’s lots more at Weigel’s blog, which offers a smart and often harshly critical take on goings-on among conservatives, the GOP, and much else.