Swift, begone: Amid all the recent news about elections, wars, pervert priests, embattled local pols, etc., Jane Swift, a product of the Beacon Hill establishment if there ever was one, has been quietly, relentlessly engaging in a gaudy, lame-duck orgy of old-fashioned Massachusetts hackeroma. This is just her
latest caper. (Boy, do hacks love
those court jobs.) Can you imagine what it would have been like if Shannon O’Brien had become governor? Forget all the election-time talk about how the state needed a woman in the corner office to reform the old-boys network. We already have one in the damn office and behold what she’s doing.