Author: mtc9393

Well as they say only in Boston. I assume you have read if you are from the Boston areas that for next year admission to Boston Latin, Boston Latin Academy and the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science which prior to now has been through the route of taking of an examination will be…

The guy was yelling “I can’t see, I can’t see!”  A woman ran up to him and said: “open your eyes!”  He did and exclaimed: “I can see!” I think of him every time I read about some of the Trump folk. I just want to run over to them and say “open your eyes.” Then…

I must confess that I do not understand lots of poems. I really never liked reading poetry so I guess as a result I did not develop an liking for it. I see this especially when I see how much better others understand poems. There are some poems, as I have noted over the past…

Yesterday I wrote about Trump and his followers propagandizing the BIG LIE, a Hitler idea, by suggesting the American doctors and health care workers are lying about the number of people who are dying from Covid-19. They are doing this so that they can somehow enrich themselves by charging more (something Trump would never do)…

The Big Lie.  It came from Hitler.  It is being used by Trump. Here’s how it is summarized: “A big lie (German: große Lüge) is a propaganda technique. The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so “colossal” that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence…

I guess the best introduction to this poem is to suggest that my Jesuit schooling is showing. This poem, The Hound of Heaven, by Francis Thompson was required reading in high school. Fortunately, we were not required to memorize it or tested on it so when I first came upon it I realized it would…