Monthly Archives: June 2020

Rhododendrons Of Nepal

June 12, 2020 – 1:37 pm

In the spring of 1968 I won a rhododendron from my sisters’ high school south of Boston. I didn’t think much of the prize. My father planted the bush by the garage. A month later light purple flowers burst from the branches. The neighborhood girls admired the rhododendron’s scintillating beauty and I proudly declared to […]

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The Selma Of The North

June 11, 2020 – 8:37 pm

I grew up in the 1960s on the South Shore of Boston. Only two African-Americans lived in my hometown. The Red Sox star pitcher Luis Tiant and the esteemed US Senator Edward Brooke. My neighborhood friends opened their hearts to reveal the incurable hatred in their souls. I never spoke to them again without saying […]

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Welcome Space Monkeys

June 11, 2020 – 4:14 pm

THE WIRE’s third season was highlighted by Baltimore Police Major Bunny Colvin independently created a free-drug zone called Hamsterdam by the dealers and users. Downtown officials celebrated the drop in crime, until discovering the real reason for the positive reports. The end of the War on Drugs. Defund the police has become a rallying cry […]

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D-Day Plus 4

June 11, 2020 – 3:42 pm

According to https://www.dday-overlord.com Allied engineers commenced with the construction of the artificial harbors of Arromanches and Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, as US troops pushed toward the crossroad of Carentan, while the British forces struggled against the Nazis before Caen. Europe would remain under the Hitlerian rule for almost another year, but seventy-four years later the fascists have seized […]

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Cops In The Good Old Days

June 11, 2020 – 12:13 am

Nightclub raconteur Steve Lewis wrote on Blackbook.com that the NYPD harassment of the nightclub GREENHOUSE appeared to be blatant racism. http://www.blackbookmag.com/racism-core-greenhouse-harassment/ That certainly seems to be the case. The police hate nightclubs, because they don’t get payoffs like the ‘good ole days’ unless they put pressure on the joint and then the ‘bagman’ comes to […]

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