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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Baron’s own blog. Please pass the salt and pepper.  I’m about to eat some crow.  Last July, I wrote how nervous I was when the Red Sox were in first place at the All Star break.  Looking back over 20 years’…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Boston’s mayoral election is still up for grabs, but the selections may be crystalizing. Four days with no computer has left me grappling impressionistically with the 12-person field, but things are looking slightly more clear.  Thanks to Davcoh…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Like so many, I have been struggling with the Syrian dilemma of strike/no strike, reflected in my previous blog .  Congressman John Tierney, speaking to the New England Council yesterday morning, spoke of his own struggle to “do the right…

.Then entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog Both writer George Santayana and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill have reminded us how those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it.  But, when it comes to chemical warfare in Syria, which history shall we remember and…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Brron’s own blog. Don’t tell me the end of summer isn’t until the third week in September.  Virtually everyone understands summer ends on Labor Day (or the Friday before for those who want to beat the rush.)  The leaves are beginning…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. The good news is that there are more than a few candidates running for mayor of Boston who are at least as credible as  Hizzonah Mayor Menino 20 years ago.  The bad news is that sorting them out…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. At first I thought a verdict in the trial of Boston gangster Whitey Bulger would spur profound withdrawal symptoms. I’d be missing the daily, nay, hourly updates on the grizzly testimony given about the murderous career of the…

The entry below is cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Federal Reserve may not be the center of the solar system, but it is a key inflection point in American politics and, through its interest rate policies, can have a profound impact on the nation’s economy. The Fed…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I don’t know John Henry.  We’ve been introduced at fundraising events a couple of times; there was no extended conversation.  He seems very nice, if shy.  I have no reason to think he’ll ruin the Boston Globe, which he…

Thank you to Marjorie Arons-Baron for allowing us to cross-post this entry from her own blog. Tom Wolfe’s 1987 masterpiece Bonfire of the Vanities  captured the greed, class, ambition, and politics of Reagan era New York City. So, too, does Mark Leibovich’s This Town capture early  21st century Washington, D.C. …