Massachusetts Very-Post-Mortem

My first substantive blog post! It gets to be first, even though it's a week out of date (horrors!), because I promised various people some in-depth analysis of Massachusetts, intending to do so on this blog, and then didn't get around to it for a while. So here goes. I am going to format this by asking myself a series of rhetorical questions, and then answering them, just because that's how this speech seems to be outlining itself in my head.