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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Have you ever wondered if the doctor who saw you in his office would recognize you if you met at the grocery? He or she might not, and it’s not just because you’re in street clothes. It might be…
Read More »The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Storm clouds gathered over Serengeti, New York. The weaver birds and bee-eaters stopped their day’s work and gathered nervously in the limbs of the acacia trees. Even the flamingos out on Lake Nakuru stopped their soaring flight and…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Have you heard the latest? Senate President Mitch McConnell says the 24 Republican Senators who are up for reelection this fall will not vote on anything from now until January 3, 2017, when those elected this November…
Read More »The enter below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron. Secure the checkpoints. Close the borders. Keep all Muslims out. Is anyone surprised to hear such calls from Donald Trump? The unspeakable horrors of the terrorist bombings today in Brussels strikes fear in all our hearts. We’re coming up on…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Lincoln/Douglas it was not. Last night’s Hillary Clinton/Bernie Sanders face-off in Florida was substantive but problematic. The debate was feisty, often angry, occasionally misleading but, like the one in Flint, Michigan the week before, on a much higher…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I hope Les Moonves is happy. The head of CBS said that Donald Trump is great for business.“Donald’s place in this election is a good thing,” Moonves said at a conference Monday in San Francisco. Trump’s circus-like…
Read More »The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. For the past seven years, there’s been a second man in my life. His name? Elias P. Demetracopoulos, hereinafter referred to as Elias. I never met the man, but he figured importantly in our household. My husband, Jim Barron,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. A relaxing Florida vacation has made me even more of a techno-peasant than I usually am. The issue that now challenges me is the dilemma presented by Apple’s refusal to comply with the U.S. government’s request to facilitate access…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Remember when it seemed fairly certain that voters in November would have to choose between Clinton and Bush dynasties? Over the last nine months, voter anger and dissatisfaction have laid waste to that aura of inevitability on both sides of the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Suffolk University board members should be ashamed of themselves. They are passing up the chance to put the school back on the map as a proud and storied urban university and a meaningful player in greater Boston’s civic…
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