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I was visiting Jimmy Niosian a few months ago. We were just having light cocktails – he likes martinis and had two while I nursed one highball with a tiny bit of Canadian Club because I was driving – and a light chat. Jimmy has done well for himself in his professional life. He’s a…

Those who follow me closely know I have an uncanny ability to inaccurately see into the future although at times I sometimes come close to being near the mark. This inability is inherited. I recognized my abilities to predict events were going to be somewhat faulty when as a young child I was at  a…

Throughout the United States many states are in the process of making it more difficult for women to obtain abortions. In legislatures controlled by Republicans men, there seem to be two urgent issue motivating them to enact laws: aside from limiting access to abortions; the other, is to limit access to the  voting booths. These…

The Baker Follies continue on. The governor’s abject failure in making vaccines available to the citizens of Massachusetts by having an easy site which would aid people in signing up for it brought me back to the old song Charlie on the MTA.  It begins with a spoken introduction: “These are the times that try…

If the reports are right, former retired FBI Agent John Connolly is to be released from a Florida prison because of concerns over his health. I would like to say that justice has come about in the treatment of him but it is difficult to do since he never should have been there in the…

Listening to the impeachment trial I was surprised when one of the House managers said that what he most fears in the 2024 election is that Trump loses.  I’m a little slow on the uptake at time, probably most times, and wondered why that would be so. That would have meant a Democrat would have…