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“In Living Color” Thanksgiving
Warning: This is a little gross by absolutely hilarious… Damon Wayans and Jim Carrey wish you a Happy Thanksgiving.
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Bob Dylan @ Tsongas Center
Bob Dylan in Lowell on November 20 (Saturday night) performing “Like A Rolling Stone”. What a great song, but this isn’t the way I remember it. Anyway…Dylan’s place in musical history is unmistakable. This video was taken by Citizen Journalist fflbrgst.
Read More »GW Bush Funny Drinking Story
He wasn’t much of a president, but George W Bush is a funny guy…Bush appeared on Jay Leno last night to push his new book, Decision Points. Below he tells why he decided to stop drinking after a dinner party at his mother and father’s house.
Read More »The Luck of the Wall Socket by Jack Neary
The entry below is being cross posted from Jack Neary’s own blog, Shards I am in the Barnes and Noble café in Nashua, NH. As usual. Trying to work. Sometimes it’s easy. Sometimes less so. Most times, I can achieve a level of concentration here I can’t reach in a…
Read More »The Atlantic & education: “Thank God for Massachusetts”
The December 2010 edition of The Atlantic has an article “Your Child Left Behind” that looks at how students in individual American states compare with students in other countries. Measuring the percentage of students who scored Advanced in standardized math proficiency tests, the study that’s the subject of the article…
Read More »I’m shocked, simply shocked, to find political donations from Fox and MSNBC hosts by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The following entry is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Keith Olbermann’s “indefinite suspension” for violating NBC’s policy barring donations to political candidates turned out to be just two days’ off the air. Which probably makes sense because his misstep was not in making the donations to three…
Read More »Congressman Lynch Supports Hoyer for Minority Leader
Over at the TPM website there is a report that Steny Hoyer is in the lead with colleagues willing to publically support his candidacy for Minority Whip against James Clyburn – the apparent choice of Nancy Pelosi. Thirty House Democrats from across the political spectrum have signed on to a…
Read More »The Greatest of All Human Dreams – America
This is my favorite paragraph from the wonderful novel The Great Gatsby written by F Scott Fitzgerald. In this scene the narrator, Nick Carraway looks across the bay at Long Island, New York, for the last time. Lest we forget on this election day…the great promise of America. And as…
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To 40B or not to 40B that is Question 2 by Marjorie Arons-Barron
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. More than 30 years ago, housing activists in Newton, mindful that young adults who had grown up in town couldn’t afford to live there and that elderly homeowners couldn’t afford to find replacements for their homes, set about…
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