In Saturday’s Boston Globe Beth Teitell has a fine short piece, ‘Throwing Hair into the Ring’. The hook is the story circulating that Newt Gingrich’s staff quit because…
The New York Times morning news feed subheads, ‘James “Whitey” Bulger, who terrorized Boston for decades, returned to face charges including complicity in 19 murders.’ This morning’s Boston Globe…
One of the pleasant surprises of a trip to the beautiful St. Croix Valley, east of Minneapolis, was happening across the Franconia Sculpture Park. It wasn’t on any…
Could there be two fun flicks on fiduciary responsibility? Astonishingly, the answer is ‘yes’, sort of. Win Win (2011) I hadn’t read much about ‘Win Win’ before I…
NOTE: Two later updates included in the post below. A lengthy post on Politico.com this morning indicates a bit of concern in the Obama administration about the issues I raised…
In what is now a dreary part of Surrey, 896 years ago today, June 15, King John signed the Magna Carta. To it Americans trace their system of government…
For years, I received a weekly feed from those funny folks at the Darwin Awards, ‘A Chronicle of Enterprising Demises honoring those who improve the species…by accidentally removing themselves…
‘Midnight in Paris’ is a comic fantasy about Paris, writing, the 20s and romance. It is the kind of movie Jimmy Stewart, Carole Lombard, Myrna Loy and William Powell…
Outside Vermont, Calvin Coolidge is remembered, if at all, as ‘Silent Cal’, the president notable only for keeping his mouth shut. The utter improbability of this persona in…
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