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125 years ago when electricity was in its infancy two young women, CeCe Cole and Nichola Souter, from prominent Boston families, decided to continue their rebellion against what they considered the stuffiness of the society in which they lived which had cause the suppression of opportunities for women. CeCe’s first shocked her family when she…

We should all be thinking of Ferguson, Missouri, and what has happened and is happening. THE KILLING: It began with a police officer killing a young black man Michael Brown. The circumstances of the killing are disputed. We know the policeman, Darrell Wilson, was a white man on a force that was about 90% white…

Michael Burggren, 53, a 20-year resident of South Boston is said to be handing out a flier that reads: “No to Bulger Library! … No! Bill Bulger used his office to protect a mass murderer.” He is an example of how the people of Boston have been bamboozled. I have no idea who Burggren is or…

The New York Times editorialized on Ferguson, Ohio with the sub-heading “Abusive Police Tactics in Ferguson Will Only Delay Justice.”  News about it was featured in every major newspaper across the country. There is a national wringing of hands. What happened is a young black man was killed by a cop under circumstances that are still…

America is the land where we used to put to death witches. I know there are no such things but that didn’t stop the well educated and the less so at that time from being convinced of their existence. The accusers were often children. The difficulty in shaking a child’s evidence is enormous. We all…

CBS News’s Bob Schieffer recently quoted historian Will Durant who said: “Barbarism, like the jungle, does not die out, but only retreats behind the barriers that civilization has thrown up against it, and waits there always to reclaim that to which civilization has temporarily laid claim.” I’m not familiar with jungles but with farm land….