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This is a great video of Lowell put together by Buddy 212002 using postcards. There are some amazing old scenes of the the downtown area. This video is titled “Greetings From Lowell”.

This is a hilarious piece from Jon Stewart titled the Gingrich who stole South Carolina. The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Governor Deval Patrick yesterday proposed a state budget to back up the state-of-the-state address he delivered on Monday. That speech was competently, if not soaringly, delivered, and urged a modest, focused agenda, which the budget seems geared to…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. State-of-the-union speeches are supposed to be inspirational, and last night’s by President Obama achieved that goal. It certainly spoke to his Democratic base and evoked a vision of what those center and left-of-center want their…

With our own Patriots in this year’s Super Bowl the usually entertaining TV commercials will be even more fun for we New Englanders. If you are familiar with Apple’s Siri, you are going to love the ad below. I saw this in the New York Times. As part of its…

OK, if you are Baltimore Raven Billy Cundiff what do you do, what do you think the day after you missed a game-tying field goal Sunday against the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship game? The interview below, originally posted by the Baltimore Sun and recommended to me by…

Truthfully, I’m as excited as the next person to see the New England Patriots returning to the Super Bowl…but honestly, I can’t help feeling bad for Ravens’ kicker Billy Cundiff. Perhaps he should have remembered some of the advise he is giving to a group of students shown below.

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Huntington Theatre’s God of Carnage is a hilarious deconstruction of sophisticated social interaction and marital relationships. Two urbane and successful New York couples get together in the wake of a playground incident in which one couple’s son…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Boston Mayor Tom Menino’s 19th state-of-the-city speech last night was a welcome relief from the nasty partisanship and overheated rhetoric of the national political scene. Locally, Boston’s unemployment rate is 5.7 percent, two points lower than last year.…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Senate candidates Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown are adopting a statesman-like posture in calling for the elimination of campaign ads paid for by outside groups. Each candidate, in doing so, can boast of support for a better, less…