Author: mtc9393

The Bill  of Rights. I suppose you all have heard of them. They are attached to the Constitution and set forth the rights of the folk in Americas against the government,  It  consists of ten amendments to the Constitution.  Sometimes it is good to remember them even though they say nothing about the right not…

A mentally unstable person with a machine gun, or its equivalent an AR-15, kills ten others. Horror or horror. Folk going about their daily lives visiting a supermarket are gunned down. We weep, we cry, we pray, and we forget in a day or two. Then a mentally unstable person with a machine gun, or its…

Today is the first Sunday of spring. Somewhere spring is in the air and that joyous feeling of the warm southerly breeze caressing one restores one’s spirit. Alas, on Cape Cod the calendar lies – we have to wait until Memorial Day for spring to come with its smiling face and before we can get…

I was thinking the other day about America and what it means to me.  I was doing this in light of the many criticisms thrown at it by folk who do not think much about it; and also by the stunning display of ignorance shown by those who think it is about waving the American…

“Who Killed Cock Robin” is an English nursery rhyme.  It came to mind because both Henry and Maria called my attention to an article in the Daily Mail of London telling about an inmate who is complaining that he has been held in solitary confinement since the death of James “Whitey” Bulger.  Unlike Cock Robin where:…

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day. My cousin Jimmy will, and I assume my late uncle Mike who spoke Irish would, greet everyone today with the word Sláinte which means best wishes for your health to which the response is sláinte agatsa, meaning to your health as well. So I will appropriate that term for myself today and…