I noticed today that we are being charged an extra $5 a month for watching NESN, our local sports network. Garry commented — again — that depending on how the season goes, it might not be be such a great… Read More ›
Day: 05/17/2021
ARE YOU A DECENT HUMAN BEING, OR ARE YOU A DICK? – BY TOM CURLEY
Originally posted on SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH:
I listen to the various pundits on all the news stations and newspapers going on and on about what Democrats need to do to win the midterm elections. They all have…
POSTWAR: A HISTORY OF EUROPE SINCE 1945 By TONY JUDT
What is truth? What is history? What really happened? How did we wind up where we are now? This is the book that will go a long way to explaining it. You might not like the explanation, but when you… Read More ›
HOW DOTH MY GARDEN GROW?
“Mary, Mary, quite contrary” BY MOTHER GOOSE Mary, Mary, quite contrary How doth your garden grow? With silver bells and cockleshells And pretty maids all in a row. The Dorling Kindersley Book of Nursery Rhymes (2000) The narcissus are interesting. I never… Read More ›
OUR PANDEMIC LEGACY II – RICH PASCHALL
What Else We Know, by Rich Paschall In many ways, my mother, and her mother too, were products of The Great Depression. My mother was born in 1920. She was nine was when the stock market crashed and the economy… Read More ›
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