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I am sure that almost every person in the Greater Boston area is convinced from all the publicity they have seen and read that Whitey was this master criminal who murdered lots and lots of people and ran a huge criminal gang that vied with the Mafia in the Greater Boston area for dominance among …

I believe I first heard the quote “to the victor belongs the spoils” as something said in a Latin class. It always intrigued me because of the word “spoils.”  I associated the word spoils with things that were spoiled like spoiled milk or bratty spoiled children. I wondered why someone who won the battle would…

A man who died at age 80 and who worked most of his life up until the time he died as a longshoreman has been called one of America’s greatest philosophers. I have not read his work in many years but one thing that stood out in my mind was when he wrote that once…

Whenever the happenstances like those going on  in the Israeli – Palestinian situation at the present time occur one can only think of the movie Groundhog Day. If not  that then clearly one must think of the street definition of insanity which is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different…

One thing I really, really, do not get is how many Americans who  have lives of leisure compared to others in in the world are so unhappy with their state of affairs. I got thinking about this over mother’s day weekend after reading lines such as these: “Yesterday their dreams were shattered. . . ….

You may have found it strange that I wrote about mother’s day yesterday  and the nice time that I had. Rarely do I venture into my personal doings with my family. Why then did I do it? Basically so that I will remember that there was a time when we had a day dedicated to…