My mother shut off topics that approached her well-defended borders of propriety. Her eyes would slowly rise above the lenses of her half glasses to meet the speaker’s. ‘Do I…
‘Dies irae, dies illa’. ‘Day of wrath, day of anger’. That line from Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor greeted me when I turned on ABC Classic…
A civil liberties lawyers is a Cassandra. Unlike Chicken Little, though, the Trojan prophet’s sky did fall. Harvey Silverglate, has served in this role for almost half…
Whitey Bulger got it right. His trial has been ‘a sham’. Bulger so characterised the proceedings preceding his meaningless sentencing to Judge Denise Casper who wanted to…
John ‘Hitman’ Martorano (a/k/a: ‘the Enforcer’, ‘the Executioner’) has confessed. He has a heart which Whitey Bulger broke by becoming an FBI snitch. In The New York…
Why do I love Boston? Watch the press conference following ‘white hat’s’ capture Friday evening. Contrast the statements of the Boston Police Commissioner, the Watertown Police chief,…
Like ‘Watergate’ and ‘Iran-Contra’, ‘Whitey Bulger’ stands for a group of interrelated crimes followed by less or more successful cover ups. ‘Truth will out’ we came to…