Author: mtc9393

At first blush one would think an oxymoron although containing as part of it the word moron does not incorporate it into any part of its meaning. Merriam-Webster defines moron as: “a very stupid person.” It defines oxymoron as: “a combination of contradictory or incongruous words.” Although as pointed out by the Oxford dictionary in providing the…

You do remember the story of Amy Bishop. When we learned of her she was the 44-year-old mother of four children who taught anatomy and neuroscience at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She attended Braintree High School,  graduated from Northeastern University, and received her Ph D in genetics from Harvard. We would read back…

Once in a while Kevin Cullen back when he was a reporter for the Boston Globe would call me when I was deputy district attorney in Norfolk County. He was not looking for anything special but mainly doing I guess what you would call due diligence seeking to verify some information he already had. I recall…

The United States Government presented as a witness in the trial of a retired FBI agent John Connolly for corruption one Francis X. Salemme, also known as Frank Salemme. The federal prosecutors used him as a witness against the Agent Connolly even though they knew he had been arrested by the agent in New York…

Both John Henry of the Red Sox and Donald Trump of the presidency are cut from the same cloth. They are, we are told, business men. Some people like business men. Others look at them with a more jaundiced eye. But they do have a common characteristic: they like to hate people and they like…

Well as we’ve seen in the past the Boston Globe is pursuing another vendetta. This time against  the former owner of the Boston Red Sox Tom Yawkey and his wife Jean (Hollander) Yawkey who owned the Red Sox for about sixty year. A street next to the park where the Red Sox play their home…