May, 2018 I have a theory that when you increase the number of people in an area past a certain point, behavior turns nasty. And the more people there are the nastier it gets. Whenever my wife and I drove to Long Island, which is very crowded these days, to visit Kathy’s parents, I could…
April 2018 About 60 years ago, there was a program on TV (black and white only) called “You Asked for it.” They did a lot of whacky things on that show, but the one I remember was their offering someone $1,000 if they could walk the streets of New York for an hour without breaking…
April 2018 US News ranked Massachusetts first in school systems in the US, despite one of the more regressive education funding systems in the country. Most states spread the burden of education costs. One state, Hawaii, runs the whole system at the state level. California devotes 40% of state revenues to fund local systems. In…
March 2018 As I watched the news coverage of the veterans marching in the St Patrick’s Day parade in South Boston, my thoughts went back 50 years, when I was in uniform at the (South) Boston Army Base (now a “Design Center”), teaching a class on riot control to a group of my fellow enlisted…
March, 2018 Former (Republican) Governor, Bill Weld, who ran for Vice President in 2016 on the Libertarian ticket, is suing the state of Massachusetts. He is working in concert with the League of United Latin American Citizens, which has filed similar suits in Texas, California and South Carolina. These suits claim that the “winner take…