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Cartoons from Nicholas Whitmore
Some Saturday morning cartoons from the past few weeks from our UK-based cartoonist, Nicholas Whitmore: …
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Some Saturday morning cartoons from the past few weeks from our UK-based cartoonist, Nicholas Whitmore:
Read More »Throwback Thursday: May 8, 2007
Here’s a new feature for this site: Throwback Thursday. We’ll repost an article from the archives. Our first offering comes from 2007, the first year of this blog’s existence. It was written by Marie Sweeney about the rapidly forming race to succeed Marty Meehan in Congress. Women in the “Fabulous…
Read More »Jacquelyn Malone’s New Poem
May 4, 2020
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PaulM
Posted in Politics, Coronavirus 2020, Current Events, History, Poetry
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Ill Wind by Jacquelyn Malone The wind whines wild and compulsive, spreading instability across the land. Shamelessly it contradicts itself, whipping—demented—in one direction, then reversing itself along an already trashed path. No one can forecast a steady state: the wind, a pompous blowhard, has no firm compass, diving into low…
Read More »‘Snake News’ by Nicholas Whitmore
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Read More »Tom Sexton: A New Poem
April 6, 2020
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PaulM
Posted in Poetry, Politics, Election 2020, Literature, Culture, History, Lowell
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The Barbarians Have Arrived After Cavafy by Tom Sexton After a few centuries of patiently waiting outside the city, the barbarians have finally arrived and taken over the Capitol. When did they realize our Republic was rotting from the inside like an overripe pear? Who thought they’d…
Read More »‘Six Feet Away’ by Nicholas Whitmore
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State Election Update: Feb 16, 2020
There is no City Council meeting this week due to school vacation so focus shifts to state politics today. State Democratic Convention While the 2020 Presidential election gets all of the attention these days, there will also be a state election this fall. All members of the state legislature –…
Read More »Aren’t We Marching Anymore?
Women’s March, 2017, web photo courtesy of Wikipedia Aren’t We Marching Anymore? Do other folks think that the Democratic National Committee or some national organization should be organizing demonstrations in Washington DC and all cities during this Impeachment period that could be over very soon if the GOP has its…
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