Acronym of the Day

ININO, standing for "Independent in Name Only," a term used to describe Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT, a self-described social democrat (first in Senate history!!!). Chris Bowers gave him the appellation, in response to the fact that Sanders, a NOMINAL INDEPENDENT, keeps sending him Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee emails. It's an analog to DINO and RINO, respectively Democrat and Republican in name only, used to describe people like Lieberman (before he stopped being a Democrats even in name), Ben Nelson, Olympia Snowe, and Lincoln Chafee (before he stopped being a Republican in name, and is now almost a fellow ININO for Sanders, since he's clearly running as the liberal candidate in our gubernatorial election).

On which subject, you've gotta love it when the Democratic, quasi-unopposed candidate for Mayor of Providence tells a roomful of college Democrats that he has not made an endorsement in the governor's race, that this fact should tell you something, and that yes, he was asked, and yes, he is a Democrat who has not endorsed. And then the roomful of college Democrats, who are constitutionally prohibited from endorsing a non-Democrat (our Constitution, not the country's), bursts into applause. Caprio, boy are you going to lose. My next Governor's going around calling himself Linc. No kidding.