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Someone sent me an email about an item on Brietbart news about a 48 page report written by Louie Gormert (whose he, I wondered) about Robert Mueller. I’d learn he was a Republican member of the House from Texas. Brietbart is one of those right-wing sites that continually dumps raw trash upon the heads of…

The old informant bugaboo rears its ugly head. This time we learn about it in a Boston Globe  story by Maria Cramer. A Somerville police detective Dante DiFronzo had this informant named Jonathan Machodo who apparently provided him with information on drug dealers in Somerville. We are not informed of the background of Machodo.  This information…

My, my, is all I could think when within a week two big Trump supporters unconnected with each other mailed me a piece that apparently is going around in the Ayn Rand circles. It is titled: “FBI Corruption . . . decades in a nutshell.” You know sometimes I have to sit  back to collect…

At first blush one would think an oxymoron although containing as part of it the word moron does not incorporate it into any part of its meaning. Merriam-Webster defines moron as: “a very stupid person.” It defines oxymoron as: “a combination of contradictory or incongruous words.” Although as pointed out by the Oxford dictionary in providing the…

You do remember the story of Amy Bishop. When we learned of her she was the 44-year-old mother of four children who taught anatomy and neuroscience at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She attended Braintree High School,  graduated from Northeastern University, and received her Ph D in genetics from Harvard. We would read back…

Once in a while Kevin Cullen back when he was a reporter for the Boston Globe would call me when I was deputy district attorney in Norfolk County. He was not looking for anything special but mainly doing I guess what you would call due diligence seeking to verify some information he already had. I recall…