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Thanks to our friends at Wignall Animal Hospital for the email reminder that today is National Dog Biscuit Day. Ivy was more interested in eating the biscuits than posing for pictures with them, so we settled for a picture with her ball.
Read More »Last year, Harvard undergraduates organized the first Harvard Thinks Big, an opportunity for ten professors from different departments to give talks on a subject they care about. The event was based on the famous TED Talks and was a great success. Harvard Thinks Big 2 was held last Thursday. While…
Read More »Forbes’s columnist Rick Ungar writes about the Koch brothers and their money in the Wisconsin struggle. Thanks to Nomi Herbstman on Facebook for the link.
Read More »For decades the two political parties have engaged in parallel social contracts with workers and management: Come election time, unions support Democrats and the people who unions work for support Republicans. Legislatively, the two parties advocate the agendas of their respective constituencies. Since the 1980s, the Republican-management axis has been…
Read More »I had coffee with a good friend this morning, and we got around to talking about what the heck we are doing with our waking hours, aside from earning a living doing work that we are fortunate to have the opportunity to do. We all have a certain number of…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Revelations by Senator Scott Brown that he was sexually abused follow by weeks Governor Deval Patrick’s going public with the depth of wife Diane’s depression. Do we really need this tell-all trend? Do we want to know the…
Read More »David Corn in Politics Daily skewers Speaker Boehner (R-Ohio) for mangling the truth and showing no mercy for those about to lose jobs due to federal budget cuts. Corn has a surprising wrap up to his column that he titled “Naked Lunch.” Here’s the opinion piece, which I picked up…
Read More »The next regular breakfast meeting of Greater Lowell Area Democrats will be held tomorrow – Saturday February 19, 20011 at 8am at the Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford. The regular agenda will include: discussion of the upcoming Democratic Convention caucus results ; the 5th District and the legislative redistricting plans; and host committee…
Read More »From Tony Sampas: Beneath the snow, etched in the stone is: “REMEMBER Don’t forget your roots. Dedicated October 27, 2001”
Read More »The Super Secret Project is back with another Ode to New Hampshire. This time the topic is near and dear to all of us…”Snow Plowing”. That’s the famous NH broadcaster Fitz Wetherbee introducing the video and playing right along. You might also recognize Gov John Lynch, filmmaker ken Burns, weatherman…
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