Author: mtc9393

The New York Times editorialized on Ferguson, Ohio with the sub-heading “Abusive Police Tactics in Ferguson Will Only Delay Justice.”  News about it was featured in every major newspaper across the country. There is a national wringing of hands. What happened is a young black man was killed by a cop under circumstances that are still…

America is the land where we used to put to death witches. I know there are no such things but that didn’t stop the well educated and the less so at that time from being convinced of their existence. The accusers were often children. The difficulty in shaking a child’s evidence is enormous. We all…

CBS News’s Bob Schieffer recently quoted historian Will Durant who said: “Barbarism, like the jungle, does not die out, but only retreats behind the barriers that civilization has thrown up against it, and waits there always to reclaim that to which civilization has temporarily laid claim.” I’m not familiar with jungles but with farm land….

I listened in after we finished eating when I heard Rose Anne D. say: “If it weren’t that it wasn’t Saturday night and that it was around eight o’clock, I’d have thought I was watching a Saturday Night Live spoof of the Bill O’Reilly show rather than the show itself.” Rose Anne went on: “O’Reilly has…

There’s a song about Southie that starts: “I had an argument the other day with a guy from Oshkaloo.” Well I’m going to plagiarize a bit and say I had a discussion the other day and I think it’s that guy from Oshkaloo. Here’s how it went. Oshkaloo objected to my articles on the Red Sox….

We’d stopped for the evening at a nice area.  The surroundings were conducive to relaxing and resting. Carmel who had only joined the trek in recent days came over. I was leaning near the open fire and poking some of the embers with a long stick. She was wearing a wide red skirt which I…