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Thursday, May 11, 2023

Proud alum of MCU?

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There are actually quite a few colleges and universities in central Massachusetts. In my home town of Worcester alone there's Holy Cross...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

RIP, Jordan Neely. RIP.

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Jordan Neely was a handsome and talented young New Yorker.(He was familiar to many subway riders for his Michael Jackson impersonation.) Jor...
Tuesday, May 09, 2023

Sometimes, remote just plain don't work

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For as long as I've been in Boston - over fifty years now - the public transportation system, the MBTA (a.k.a., the T) has been kinda-so...
Monday, May 08, 2023

Where the wild things are

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So much of the news lately has been about two-legged wild things, armed and insanely dangerous. The old coot in Kansas City who grievously i...
Friday, May 05, 2023

I really didn't need to read this.

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The pollen has been heavy this spring, and it's been bothering me in a way that it hasn't in years. I lost my voice - some days comp...
Thursday, May 04, 2023

Whatever happened to a tiny plastic basket full of M&M's?

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If you were a child in the 1950's-1960's, and ever went to a birthday party, you may recognize these fancy little pink plastic baske...
Wednesday, May 03, 2023

Demolition Derby?

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To me, there are few things more charming than the English countryside.  I want to live in Maisie Dobbs' charming dower house on the gro...
Tuesday, May 02, 2023

Design error? Whatty what what?

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It will come as no surprise that I don't have a lot of respect or affection for Sarah Huckabee Sanders.  When she was Trump's Press ...
Monday, May 01, 2023

Leaving Pity City? You first, Andi Owen.

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If you worked in corporate America at some point in the later decades of the 20th century, or at any time during the 21st century, you may w...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Not another one

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It's a fact of life that crimes are way disproportionately committed by men. Mass murder. Serial killing. Breaking & Entering. Assau...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Yet another obsolete profession.

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Back in the day, if you needed a phone number but weren't home with access to your 12-pound phone book, you could dial 4-1-1 and get the...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

To protect and serve? Really?

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A familiar trope of the family dramas of my childhood was the boy having to "man up" and shoot the rabid family dog. I guess it wa...