Well I'm sore, after finishing about 15 miles of the People Over Pipelines march; but I'm soft, spending the night at home. Some of our hardiest marchers have walked the full 43 miles, and are spending the night in tents at the State … [Read more...]
Archives for July 17, 2016
New Englanders Owe Roger Goodell A Big Thank You. A Really Big Thank You.
Poor Tom Brady. The powerful people who control his world - NFL - didn't like him or his boss or us massholes or something.It doesn't matter. What does matter is the power - NFL- was out to get him. Now because he is our guy and the line … [Read more...]
Better Get Used to It: A Media Scorned Slowly Learns About Its Changing Role
Fatal Attraction was the swan song of the "woman scorned" movies. Much of the 20th century was spent telling the story in film and fiction of white, middle-class men confronted with the stress of romancing women not their wives and dealing … [Read more...]
Boston’s 700 displaced people from the closing of the Long Island Bridge in the Boston Globe spotlight – remember them?
Where did the 700 recovering addicts and homeless rendered without beds and treatment by the sudden closing of the Long Island bridge and all the shelters and programs on Long Island go? They became displaced persons, internal refugees in … [Read more...]
Historians Speak Out on Trump
Today's New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/nyregion/donald-trump-david-mccullough-ken-burns.html?mwrsm=Facebook) wrote about the project created by David McCullough and Ken Burns which brings together dozens of notable … [Read more...]