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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The last inauguration I listened to was a little less than a year ago when the worst President of my lifetime was sworn in. This morning, with former Vice President Joe Biden by his side, Marty Walsh took…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Queen Elizabeth had nothing on us when she declared 1992 an annus horribilis. All she had to endure were the respective marital difficulties of son Andrew and daughter Anne, a tell-all book by Princess Di about Charles and…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog Getty images It was a lot easier getting up this morning knowing the headline out of Alabama read: first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate in a quarter of a century from the state known as “the Heart of…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Massachusetts’ Senate President is in trouble. The Boston Globe reports on four unnamed men subjected to sexual harassment by Bryon Hefner, the husband of Senate President Stan Rosenberg. MassLive reports this morning on a possible fifth case. Three of the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Just because Donald Trump didn’t vomit on the Japanese Prime Minister the way George H. W. Bush did in 1992, didn’t make the President’s 12- day Asia trip a resounding success. Announcing billion dollar business deals negotiated prior…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It’s hard not to feel good about last Tuesday’s election results. Winning beats losing. Trying to tout losing by special congressional elections by ever-narrower margins doesn’t cut it. Never mind that Virginia trends blue anyway and voted Democratic…
Read More »The entry blow is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Late tonight (aka Sunday morning) is the start of the deep blue funk. Clocks are set back one hour at two a.m. Soon sunset will be a little after four o’clock. (In Maine, it’s before four p.m.) Vitamin…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Reading, especially fiction. Listening to music. Attending theater and concerts. Taking courses. Working. Gardening. Connecting with friends and family. All worthy efforts to distract from the havoc that Donald Trump is wreaking upon us. All effective, if temporary,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Outrage over sexual assault shouldn’t be a partisan contest. Whether you’re Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes, Bill Clinton, Bill Cosby, Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein or Bob in Accounting, sexual predation is inexcusable. But as bad as their behavior, I’m…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. So, the consoler-in-chief has visited Las Vegas in the wake of a mass slaughter at a concert there, and, unlike yesterday’s shameful performance in Puerto Rico, he stayed on script. He called the gunman “sick and demented,…
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