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In the 6th Essex race the Salem News editorialized: “… Parisella has certainly earned another two-year term…”  Apparently the editors have not been reading the excellent reporting of Paul Leighton who detailed the conflict of interest complaint filed against Parisella and his subsequent quitting of his job. And though that weighs on my mind, I’m…

I’m proud of Massachusetts today. Last night on the debate on WBZ all 5 candidates for governor were featured, including 3 in depende

Today is Juneteenth, and on the heels of a racially motivated massacre, we are forced to ask ourselves once again — when can we end this violence?  When shall we know peace with our brothers?  When will we achieve the dream that we all judge each other by the content of our character?  How can…

When people talk about having standards, it’s with the shared assumption that standards are a “good thing.”  When we talk about minimum standard for something, we’re talking about a baseline, below which is considered unacceptable.  When we use the phrase  “a standard of excellence” we associate the word standard with an ideal that we should…

When something is free, it has no value and people treat it as such. When I worked at a great hospital in Boston, we used to offer free printing to everyone in our small division — 1000 people were generating printing costs of $100,000 per year.So we put a program in place so that when…

I attended the Massachusetts Libertarian Party state committee meeting last Saturday, and as always I left thinking:  “I know I’m being paranoid, but am I being paranoid enough?” To that end, I have generated a new 4096 bit public key.  Scroll down further for my 2048 key. If you want to know how to use…

Below are the Massachusetts semi-finalists for this years James Beard Awards I’m going to try to hit every one this year. I’m especially surprised that there are 2 such great restaurants on Nantucket. I’ll come back and edit this post with reviews. CHEF RESTAURANT CITY Ana Sortun Oleana Cambridge Will Gilson Garden at the Cellar…

I just read this intriguing piece in the Times:  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/opinion/28rich.html?_r=3&hp What’s great about this article is that I think the means that it describes and ends we would all find desirable: a government that votes it’s conscience. We differ greatly as to the means. I’ve been thinking recently that the problem is lack of accountability.…