The Boston Globe lost a long-term paid subscriber this week — yours truly. I've stayed with this paper for a long time. I began a 7-day/week hard-copy subscription when I first moved here in June of 1974. I maintained that subscription … [Read more...]

Our fair city was awash in helicopters and emergency vehicles again Wednesday, as a prisoner attempted to escape his handlers while being taken to Mass. Eye and Ear for treatment. Those of us who happened to be downtown couldn't fail to … [Read more...]

  This morning, we learn that Judge Douglas P. Woodlock sentenced convicted felon Michael McLaughlin to three years in federal prison. The same judge, in February of 2011, sentenced Dianne Wilkerson to three and half … [Read more...]

I came across this just now, and thought BMG might enjoy it. Just dial 1-800-any phone # … [Read more...]

The other shoe has dropped. In a front-page, above-the-fold piece in today's Boston Globe, we see the desired candidate of the cabal who performed the political assassination of Tim Murray — Martha Coakley. The piece, by Frank … [Read more...]

I do think that it's time our two Senate candidates address the many questions raised by the NSA data gathering scandal. I'd like to know where Mr. Markey stands on matter. I'd especially like Mr. Markey to compare and contrast his … [Read more...]

It just took FORTY SECONDS to refresh the BMG front page. This is at 11:25a on a Saturday morning — surely not prime time. Notice that this is reload — it doesn't include whatever is already in my browser cache. I'm nearly … [Read more...]

Multiple sources report yet more carnage by yet another shooter with assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, this time at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, CA. Four people were killed and five wounded on Friday morning as a … [Read more...]

I have, at various times, served in local (town) government. I'm guessing that most of my fellow BMG participants who have done or now do the same have encountered the venerable "Streetlight strategy", used by self-serving public officials … [Read more...]

Ray Manzarek, keyboardist for the Doors, died today at 74. As as aspiring rock-and-roll musician of 17 in the late sixties, Ray Manzarek was an icon and an idol. Though I realized as I matured that he was at best mediocre, that made no … [Read more...]