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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Every time I have written about gun violence and mass shootings, one reader or another (you know who you are) will charge me with being a bleeding heart liberal. So, let’s take the emotion out of the equation. …
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Today half the 94 million Vietnamese are under 29 years old. They were not alive during what they call the American War. For the younger generation, that’s ancient history. They are focused on the future. But, for a…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Coming from Boston, you’d think we’d be used to crazy traffic and pedestrian behavior. Boston is an Eden compared to Vietnamese cities, where the intensity of the traffic takes your breath away. Most people ride motor bikes (due…
Read More »The entry below is being cross -posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Thirty years ago, I stood with my husband on the banks of the Mekong River in Thailand, where that country comes together with Burma to the west and Laos to the east, and knew that we had to…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Just when you thought Donald Trump had already taken the Presidency as low as it could go, he asked, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries coming here?” Our esteemed President, according to credible reports,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The stock market is up “very, very big today” and the “tax cuts are really kicking in far beyond what anyone thought,” President Trump said last week, making an illogical cause-and-effect connection between the two. He also touted…
Read More »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…
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