Author: mtc9393

This is not really a poem although some people refer to it as a poem. It was supposedly the favorite of General Douglas MacArthur who had it hanging on the wall behind his desk when he was in charge of running post-war Japan. It is more of an essay. I thought I would include it…

Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants died on September 14, 2020, at age 65. He suffered a heart attack on September 4, went to the hospital where he was treated with two stents, made a  decent initial recovery to the extent he planned on returning to work in a limited manner within days, and then something…

When Trump imposed the travel ban on China – which did not ban everyone from traveling from there – it exempted Americans and their families as well as citizens of Hong Kong and Macao who were coming from China. There was no ban on people coming in from Europe until March 12. That allowed people…

Last Thursday I was beating the old drum telling how one of the greatest hoaxes perpetrated on the gullible American public, you know those people who like gangster stories like those in the Godfather series, or the Sopranos, or the Goodfellas, was that Whitey Bulger was the real deal gangster. One of the most intriguing…

Here is what occupies Trump: Harassing a private citizen. Is this what you  believe a president should be doing on a Sunday? Donald J. Trump responding to a tweet. He sent this out at 6:48 am on Sunday September 6:    @realDonaldTrump Steve Jobs would not be happy that his wife is wasting money he…

Every time I think of the book Whitey, The Life of America’s Most Notorious Mob Boss” I marvel at how some local Boston media folk could turn a mid-level gangster who murdered probably less than a dozen people, and none by himself, and who never ordered anyone to be killed,  and turn him into a…