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Sunday, holiday elves treated Billerica residents to a visit from Santa and a wonderful tree lighting…below heidi1361 captures some of these special  moment for us.

The following entry is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The news that WikiLeaks is making public over 250,000 secret State Department communications is shocking. But, while many of the diplomats who wrote (or were written about in) the messages may be angry, embarrassed or having to do…

Warning: This is a little gross by absolutely hilarious… Damon Wayans and Jim Carrey wish you a Happy Thanksgiving.

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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…