Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said: “Our democracy is a work in progress,. This decision of putting a woman in the $10 bill reflects our aspirations for the future as much as a reflection of the past.” Can you figure out what that is supposed to mean? I can’t. If he said something like “look we…
Author: mtc9393
My Apple Watch:
The photograph on this page shows the new Apple watch I bought. As you may have heard, they are quite expensive. They range in price from $349 for the hoi polloi up to $17,000 range in gold for those guys who wear Louis Vuitton shoes. I might have said for the gals who wear the…
A Plea To Ms Higgins of Savin Hill: Make An Honest Man Out of Him
One of Boston’s all-time favorite Irish politicians was Dapper O’Neil. With a name like that you know there had to be a lot of rakishness in the man. One thing that always struck me funny about him though was his relationship with Helen T. Skrzowski, his girlfriend of 56 years who died at age…
Buying Lying: Accepting Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court
Americans have bought into many big lies. Perhaps for a society to function we have to do that. One major lie is that the Supreme Court is impartially and fairly determining the laws of the land. The basic functioning of our society depends upon that even though it is a lie. It is hard for people…
Muddling Along: Everything’s Wrong: Hide and Hide. The Malfunctioning Massachusetts Justice System
This I beheld or dreamed it in a dream. I happened to be in the John Adams Courthouse the home of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC). I spent some time at the Social Law Library (there is nothing social about it) which was once aptly described by an Appeals Court Judge who said “someone could…
Is It A Lack of Respect That’s Causing the US/Israeli Difficulties?
A long time ago I heard a couple of attorneys referring to someone as being a “schvartze.” I had never heard the term before so I was curious as to its meaning. I’d come to find out over time that it was a Yiddish word denigrating blacks like the ‘N’ word. I never heard it more…