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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Oh, the places I've been. (Nothing too exciting, but still...)

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I'll be spending this weekend in Washington, DC, visiting a friend who re-lo'd from Boston to be closer to her daughter and grandkid...
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Monday, September 11, 2023

Would you get on a flight with this pilot?

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By airport standards, Boston's Logan is a golden oldie. Older than Midway, older than LaGuardia, Logan is 100 years old. And while it ha...
Friday, September 08, 2023

Give food to the hungry

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When I see people on the streets looking for money, I'll usually give them a couple of bucks and ask them if they know about St. Francis...
Thursday, September 07, 2023

Elon Musk: worse, worser, worsest. (And it's nothing new.)

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If you like to write about bad business behavior - which, of course, I do - Elon Musk is surely the gift that keeps on giving. Trumpian in h...
Wednesday, September 06, 2023

Sometimes crime does pay. Someone else's crime, anyway.

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Back in the early 1960's, before I lived here, the Boston Strangler murdered nine Boston-area women. His final victim was killed on Char...
Tuesday, September 05, 2023

Sorry/Not Sorry. (Burning Man 2023)

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Even under the most pleasant of circumstances, it's hard for me to imagine a more hellish experience than attending Burning Man, the cou...
Monday, September 04, 2023

Labor Day 2023

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Hard to believe that it's already Labor Day. Oh, we still have summer weather on the horizon, and summer ain't over 'til it'...
Friday, September 01, 2023

Cow Parade 2023

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I have no idea what cows have to do with Boston.  If they were going to go with Boston fauna, the cod would have been a better representatio...
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Thursday, August 31, 2023

Ice Ice, Baby!

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It's highly unlikely that I'll ever own another car in my life. And there's a non-zero probability that I'll never even get ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Talk about monofocus

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I know next to nothing about them, other than to say that when it comes to nature, butterflies are right up there when it comes to beauty. I...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Will capitalism save us? Here's hoping!

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Doom and gloomer that I am, I worry incessantly about a) the prospect of fascism taking hold in the US; and b) climate change making large s...
Monday, August 28, 2023

Tahoe's overtourism challenge

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Most of what I know about Lake Tahoe comes from early 1960's hipster Rat Pack-ian references to "Tahoe" made by Frank and Samm...
Friday, August 25, 2023

All Aboard, Amtrak

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I 'm a train fan, but that's train fan with a small t and a small f. Mostly, when I'm on a train it's the commuter train to...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Going to extremes

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As long as there's been tourism, there's been tourism for the rich.  In fact, when tourism was first a thing, it was pretty much exc...