Who is in control of the United States of America?  Who makes the decisions to go to war, to provide (or deny) health care, create tax loopholes, and create budgets? It’s not the 1%.  If it was the 1%, that would be a figure that we all … [Read more...]

While some of us were focused on the poor single mom who tried to buy ice cream with her food stamps, it turns out that tax exempt private high schools in Massachusetts are paying some of their employees $450,000 and more.   Can anyone out … [Read more...]

Music fade in.......     There is a political dimension beyond that which is known to mankind. It is a dimension as vast as a budget projection and as timeless as a filibuster. It is the far right mind, after logic and … [Read more...]

As I was traveling up a short hill on my bicycle at about eighteen miles an hour, a mechanical failure sent me hurling head first over the handlebars until the crown of my head met the pavement, cracking my helmet in four places. The good … [Read more...]

Here's the deal:   Who:  YOU What: BMG BBQ Where: 7 Copperfield Lane, Franklin Massachusetts When: Sunday, July 26th Noon-??   Weather Forecast:  78 Degrees, partly sunny, and NO Rain.   Why?:  Why … [Read more...]

In the 18th century, poor British youth accepted indentured servitude, a labor system whereby young people paid for their passage to the prosperity of the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years. The employer … [Read more...]

Some interesting questions are brought up by a friend of mine on her weekly email from a liquor store where she is one of the owners. From her email: "Dan Paquette, co-owner of Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project, let loose a Twitter … [Read more...]

It was 2001 and I had just moved to Massachusetts from Western New York.  I was puzzled at how many people wanted to know if I was a Yankees fan.  The fact is that I don’t follow baseball at all and had no idea that it was so important to … [Read more...]

Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton told his constituents to be afraid of the Obamacare insurance exchanges on the Internet because, in so many words, “Russian mobsters may steal your identity". 1.16 Million credit cards were hacked … [Read more...]

If there was a terrorist camp in Afghanistan that sent a few sleeper cells to to Massachusetts and in the course of one year, 983 civilians would lose their lives at the hands of these militants in 2014, it would be in the headlines for … [Read more...]