Who would have believed it that the 32 billionaire NFL owners recognizing the importance of gambling to their success in making money off of their individual confederacy of players would turn to it, the one thing that would further undermine the integrity of their game. Yesterday I wrote how the NFL was on the decline based…
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The Worst Way To Spend A Fall Sunday: Watching the Failing NFL
This all started to come together for me recently. It was on one of those fine fall Sundays. I was lured outside by the beautiful weather. Together with some other people we went for a long walk in the woods; the following Sunday it was a trek over to the cranberry bogs. The people I…
Professor Underwear: The Puny Pricked Professor’s Problems Persist
RM, one of my secret operatives, reminds me I have been remiss in writing about Professor Underwear whose pride, perch and person was pricked by the persistence of a pretty young woman who publicly proclaimed that he took sexual advantage of her when she was but a little girl trapped into vice by Professor Underwear’s…
The Cost of Investigating a Telephone Call: Mayor Martin Walsh’s Purchase of a Pig in a Poke
“Stealing-is-Stealing” U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz sought to make sure that a call someone made from City Hall in Boston to a couple of businesses telling them if they let some reality show use their premises the next day they may be picketed would be noticed by including it in an indictment. It had no connection to…
WHITEY: The Joe Berlinger Documentary Film: Two Men Painting False Pictures
When Lehr mentioned that Whitey’s brother Billy was Senate President and Prosecutor Brian Kelly said that “no matter how politically connected one is” and you add into that Defense Lawyer Hank Brennan’s observation that Whitey ruled the organize crime world for twenty-five years without even being charged with a misdemeanor, the conclusion an impartial viewer…
WHITEY: The Joe Berlinger Documentary Film – Introduction
I decided after being urged by some to view this documentary. Fortunately, it was available at my local library. I was glad that I did. The documentary was presented through the eyes of the victims’ families, mostly from those related to Debra Davis and Michael Donohue; from the opinions of those who wrote books on…