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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Condoleezza Rice was in Boston yesterday promoting her new family memoir, Extraordinary, Ordinary People. Often lampooned on Saturday Night Live, the former Secretary of State under George W. Bush is anything but a stick figure. She is charming,…
Read More »Legendary San Francisco poet and founder of City Lights Bookstore and publishing company Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a baseball fan, too. The card-carrying Beat writer and publisher of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” and several books by Jack Kerouac, including “Book of Dreams” and “Pomes All Sizes,” has a most fitting poem for this…
Read More »The Globe is reporting in a “Political Intelligence” on-line post by Stephanie Vallejo that State Senator Jamie Eldridge (D) of Acton plans to refile a bill that would lessen the impact in Massachusetts state elections of the U. S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of Citizens United. The recent ruling basically allows…
Read More »The big national lenders that halted foreclosure activities two weeks ago have now resumed after their self-scrutiny of the documentation related to mortgages that are to be foreclosed. The efficacy of this review is questionable; if it’s anything like the degree of care these same companies brought to granting the…
Read More »Thanks to Globe reporters Courtney Hollands and Nicole Cammorata for suggestions for last-minute Halloween costumes in today’s Boston Globe Calendar. Unfortunately, the photo was not included online. You have to see the hard copy of the paper for the full effect—the yoga mat is worn like a serape and marked…
Read More »www.dailyfinancereport.com via aol.com is reporting an encouraging trend in employment/unemployment nationwide. America’s bedraggled labor market got a boost today with the latest weekly initial jobless claims unexpectedly plunging 21,000 to 434,000 — their lowest level since July. A Bloomberg survey had expected the report to show a total of 455,000…
Read More »Read the following from Henry A. Giroux, and get a sense of the outrage on the other side of the political spectrum, the side that hasn’t been given the kind of free publicity by media outlets everywhere that the Tea Party has received in the past six months. A moderate-minded reader might consider…
Read More »Much has been made about several head-to-head blows delivered by defenders in the NFL two weeks ago. Some of the offenders were heavily fined for their actions and the league quickly announced it would suspend any player who hit a “defenseless player” in the head. After last week, the NFL…
Read More »His name is Jimmy McMillan and he is running for governor of New York as the nominee of the “Rent is Too Damn High” Party. And even with heavy hitters little Andrew Cuomo and Carl Paladino on the stage, Jimmy steals the show. McMillan, nicknamed Rambo, Papa Smurf, and The…
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