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Tuesday, March 03, 2026

Guilty until proven innocent

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Hard to believe it's been over a month now since Nancy Guthrie went missing. Hard to believe they haven't found something : Nancy (d...
Thursday, February 26, 2026

AI AI AI AI!

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I'm a pretty big Ken Burns fan. I love, love, loved The Civil War, Baseball, The Vietnam War, Country Music . If I had to pick a favorit...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Mar-a-Lago Face

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I suppose it's one of the more benign aspects of the entirely regrettable Reign of Trump. It's not the lying, the boneheaded tariffs...
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

"Catch me if you can"? Will do!

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When I was a kid, I avidly read the book The Great Impostor , which chronicled the exploits of one  Ferdinand Waldo Demara, a Massachusetts-...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

The Office Park from Hell

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In 2024, Shunda Park "materialized and metastasized" almost overnight in the middle of nowhere on the Myanmar border. Unlike offic...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Death of a pizza parlor phone order taker

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On Christmas Eve, the Upper Crust on Charles Street - my go-to pizza place for the past 20+ years - closed. At first, I thought they were do...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Remarkably, Bill Belichick makes Bob Kraft look good

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Locals have now had a week to recover from the Patriots' Super Bowl loss. My recovery is blessedly complete. In fact, I was fully over t...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

Skeletons in the closet?

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Certainly, everyone's entitled to a hobby.  Personally, I've never had one - if you don't count reading, watching the Red Sox, o...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Talk about school trip gone bad

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When I was in kid, school trips weren't much of a thing. Fifty kids in a class? Where were we going to go, and who was going to foot the...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

A lobster tale

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I like lobster as much as the next New Englander, but it's not something I eat all that often. Mostly when I have lobster it's in th...
Thursday, February 05, 2026

Why am I not surprised? (Even if it's just GoFundMe.)

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My Irish forebears didn't leave Ireland as the (direct) result of the famine. They came over in the 1870's for the usual reasons: po...
Wednesday, February 04, 2026

Wanker

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Sir Benjamin Slade doesn't appear to have done much with his life, other than enjoy the life and trappings of a minor British aristocrat...
Tuesday, February 03, 2026

Sports Bahs He-ah!

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Winter is long, cold, dreary, and dark - especially in these parts, especially as you get older - and whether or not Punxsutawney Phil saw h...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

RIP, Circle Furniture

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I was a big fan of Circle Furniture, a small local chain selling interesting, well-designed, decently made, and not crazily expensive furnit...