Author: mtc9393

I was in court during the Whitey trial. I sat in the same room at times with Howie Carr who would arrive with some morning snacks that he shared with other people. I said hello to him two or three times going in and out of the press room where the trial was being broadcast…

The Boston disease is the idea that whatever happens in Boston is the most important thing in the world or at least has worldly significance. That is how James J. “Whitey” Bulger was hoisted to the pinnacle of criminals even though a true analysis would show he was little more than a tough guy who…

Trump’s Mickey Cohen: – I missed the Cohen testimony. I did so deliberately. The reason was that nothing he would say would change anyone’s mind. Afterward I saw some summaries of it. I knew I was right. The Republicans are going to stick with Trump even in the face of his patently obvious lies like”I…

I recently read this: “But where in today’s politics is a robust, credible voice for optimism? Who’s pointing the way to a society of abundant opportunities for improvement? Not the right-veering Republicans, with their catalogue of resentments. And not the left-listing Democrats, with their litany of grievances. With less than a year before the presidential…

It ended abruptly. Many were surprised. It had started so hopefully. It had lasted so long. Love is blind. Being in love is believing the unbelievable. It is full of trust. It is full of seeing what one wants to see and not what is. Yet, anyone familiar with these May to December romances know…

Harold Brown died last week. May he rest in peace. He was one of the biggest apartment and building owners in the City of Boston. I’m not sure when I first heard about him. For years as an assistant district attorney I was the arson prosecutor in Norfolk County.  I believe I tried more  arson…