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Catching up on my reading I’ve also come across the new book by Lehr and O’Neill on Whitey. Much of it is a repeat if not retraction of some of the material that was set out in Black Mass. No longer do they maintain the position that there was the secret Wollaston Beach meeting where FBI…

At the library I picked up Howie Carr’s latest book Rifleman – The Untold Story of Stevie Flemmi, Whitey Bulger’s Partner. The first sentence in the introduction contradicts the title of the book it reads: “This is Stevie Flemmi’s own story dictated to the cops in the presence of his own lawyers.” If Stevie’s already told the…

Sitting in a local coffee shop and reading some of the comments I was struck by GOK’s suggestion that blogging is fine but isn’t there something else we can do beyond talking to ourselves and airing our woes. I’ve wondered at that myself. I’m writing about it here because I think what I’m going to suggest…

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has an online site that tells us where its prisoners are located. Interested in where your favorite prisoner is spending her time, go to the site, type in her name and you’ll be given the information What’s good about the site is that it even tells about prisoners that…

Obtuse according to the Merriam Webster dictionary means:: “stupid or unintelligent : not able to think clearly or to understand what is obvious or simple.” Where I suggest Americans are clearly coming up short is their failure to see the continuing obsequiousness of those in official positions to the many police forces operating in our land. These police…

Little Miss Carey woke up today looking around for her mother Miriam. A child welfare worker told her that she would never see her mommy again. She was killed by the cops. The media consensus of the events leading to Miriam Carey’s death I found in the New York Post: “Carey’s rampage began just after 2…