The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When late CBS newsman Daniel Schorr was asked about his move from radio to television, he reportedly observed, “If you can fake sincerity, you’ve got it made.” It’s in that spirit, and mindful of her declining poll…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Federal Judge Richard Berman nullified Tom Brady’s four-game suspension Thursday, and suddenly all was right with the world. Signs at the final preseason game declared with relief “Tom Brady is Free” and “Richard Berman for President.” Why not? Even…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It would be very tempting to leap to support the Green Line extension through Somerville to Medford. After all, anything that modernizes our nation’s oldest mass transit system is a good thing, and this particular plan was promised…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Slain WDBJ reporter Alison Parker’s father, Andy Parker, has become the latest grieving parent calling for gun control. We are all seduced by the notion that simply understanding the impact on real people of the failure to…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Summer reading 2015 would not be complete without Go Set a Watchman, the book that Harper Lee reportedly wrote before she published To Kill a Mockingbird. It is told from the perspective of Atticus Finch’s daughter Scout (now…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. A late Labor Day and temporary physical disability have extended my usual orgy of summer reading, with both non-fiction and fiction offerings to share with you. Because time is running out, I’ll keep the list short. In the…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Most weekend mornings, a small group of men gathers at the front table of Peet’s coffee in Newton Center to gab about breaking news, politics and whatever else catches their fancy. It’s hard to imagine the gathering without one…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. In 1990, my husband and I visited Prague, including the old Jewish section – the synagogue, the cemetery, and the tiny adjacent museum displaying drawings done by Prague children during their imprisonment in Terezin, the Nazi concentration…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Walter Palmer’s pleasure in life is apparently hunting and killing large animals, legally or illegally. In the last few days, millions of people around the world have come to know that the American “sportsman” has slain Zimbabwe national treasure Cecil,…
photo Boston Globe The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, who has long seemed in thrall to the Boston 2024 Olympic bid, said at a press conference this morning that he refuses “to mortgage the future of the city away.”…