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On being “non-essential”
Tony Sampas observes that being deemed “non-essential” has some benefits: you can stay home and take great photographs of the snow through the window of your home.
Read More »Kad Barma, Snow Tracker
See Choosing a Soundtrack/Kad Barma for snow tracking info. He linked from Rob Mills.
Read More »John Kerry’s Thoughts on ‘Gridlock & Globalization’
Here’s the link to a Washington Post item about a speech given by John Kerry this week.
Read More »Sarah Palin Responds
Does Sarah Palin REALLY not know the difference between true “debate” and using language with images of weapons and violence to refer to people that disagree with her? Seriously, does she really NOT see the difference? Sarah Palin: “America’s Enduring Strength” from Sarah Palin on Vimeo.
Read More »Attending a Celtics game
This past Monday night I traveled to the TD Garden to see the Boston Celtics play the Houston Rockets. The last time I had seen the Celtics in person, the starting lineup consisted of Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parrish, Danny Ainge and DJ Johnson, so my pattern of going…
Read More »Kathleen Marcin of DLNA on Lowell & America’s Guns
Kathleen Marcin of the Downtown Lowell Neighborhood Association posted on the group’s blog about the recent shootings in Lowell and the gun culture of America.
Read More »In the Merrimack Valley: Bread and Roses Strike – Lawrence 1912
MassMoments reminds us that on this day – January 12, 1912 -the so-called Bread and Roses Strike of workers in our sister city of Lawrence Massachusetts began. On January 12, 1912, workers in the American Woolen Company Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, opened their pay envelopes to find that their wages…
Read More »All Courts closed today due to snow
At 5 am, the Massachusetts Trial Court announced that all courts in the Commonwealth will be closed today due to the major snowstorm that struck the region overnight. Since the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds is located within the Superior Courthouse in Lowell, it too is closed for the day.…
Read More »George Will, on the Other Hand
For balance on this snow day, I’m dragging old self-satisfied George Will over here with his thoughts on the Arizona shootings. I don’t like George Will’s opinions but I used to appreciate his writing when he was on the back page of Newsweek for years. In 1987, George Will used his Newsweek…
Read More »boston.com Asking for Haikus Today
While the blizzard blows and snows, boston.com is inviting readers to become haiku writers. Here’s the link. I’ll give mine exclusively to rh.com: . Snow blows right to left, Going somewhere else to stick. My white cat stays curled. . —Paul Marion (c) 2010
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