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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barrons own blog. For people who believe in the inevitability of the progress of civilization, the last two to three years have been a tanker truck full of cold water. Global trends toward narrow-minded, border closing, mind numbing bigotry have been…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. First, it was the slurs against Mexicans; then the attempted ban on Muslims and the attack on all immigrants. Now it’s war against women. The latest salvo came in Alabama, with a virtual ban on abortions. Other red…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I emerge from three weeks of flu, bronchitis and related maladies on World Press Freedom Day and want to take more than a moment to hail the work of so many journalists who put themselves on the line…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Baron’s own blog. Some of Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s comments are disconcerting at best, damaging and divisive at worst. Equally troubling, she is allowing herself to be used as a tool by Donald Trump to drive a wedge in the Democratic…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Apparently having their unvaccinated children barred from school since December wasn’t enough to persuade some New York area parents to get their kids inoculated against measles, mumps and rubella. So Rockland County, just north of Manhattan, has now…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Whether he admits it or not, Donald Trump’s explicit summons to hate and his dog-whistle signals have helped to encourage white supremacists at home and abroad. Worse, his administration is undoing programs designed to deal with the problem.…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Running around the house yesterday, looking frantically for the directions to set my clock radio forward to Daylight Saving Time, I thought about how stupid it is to have to go through this twice a year. Why not…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Regular readers of my blog have expressed their displeasure that, when I wrote my last blog on non-fiction books, I promised a follow-up blog with my recent adventures in fiction but failed to do so. In the spirit…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Remember how folks despaired that the Democrats had “no bench?” As it turns out, there is significant strength in the cluster of presidential candidates coming forward. I don’t just say that because Donald Trump has lowered the bar…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. photo Forbes Shock, disgust, schadenfreude, anger and pity for the mighty one who has fallen due to his own flawed character. Shock, because I still remember the Bob and Myra Kraft who lived modestly in Newton decades ago,…
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