And, at the risk of giving offense, I might point out that the whole gang lines up on the Left side, progressives to the end in most cases, readers of the Times and the Washington Post - the guys who went relentlessly after Richard Nixon, you will recall, out of a sense of duty (they said), and who now cannot yet find it in themselves, that sense, somehow, for some reason - and their like (or ilk, if you like).
The same folks who have taken the First, Second and Fourth and made a mockery of each of them, or tried to.
Argh.
But no matter.
Just keep making those nooses tighter, and it will all work out well in the end.
If not for them - and I mean all of them - then . . .
Not always, and not even commonly, in spite of those statistics which seem to indicate to the contrary.
Marriage, regardless of the gender(s) of the participants, is a good deal, healthy, good for us, makes us live longer, unless it only makes it seem that way because the marriage isn't anything to write home about.
Marriage, at its best, is a full partnership, in which the happiness of a spouse is of paramount importance, more important than the happiness of self.
It can work that way, and I'm deeply pleased to say that it does for me, on my second try at it, now twenty-five years and counting.
But for it to work, that is the way it must be, no ifs about it.
Are you up to it, if those are the orders of the day, every day?
Do I come across as politically incorrect (God save the mark) if I wonder aloud, here, what the process is by which the decision is made to grant someone like this sanctuary, asylum, here in our country?
Former Cambridge neighbors of a Russian mixed martial arts brawler shot dead by an FBI agent early yesterday in Florida — after being questioned about his ties to the marathon bombing and a Waltham triple murder — said he was nasty.
Ibragim Todashev, 27, also hung around with slain marathon bombing mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 — swilling beer and eating chicken on a stoop on Harding Street, they said.
"I was the happiest person when they moved. . . . It’s a little more peaceful since they left," a neighbor told the Herald yesterday of the Russian buddies.
Another said she was "intimidated" by him.
Todashev was killed after the FBI said he became "violent" during questioning at his Orlando apartment. Unconfirmed reports said he had confessed to the Sept. 11, 2011, Waltham murder of three roommates and that he participated in slitting their throats, along with Chechen terror buddy Tsarnaev, sprinkling the three victims with pot.
One of a series of interviews of a man with a history of violence, irrational behavior, an about-to-be-confessed, savage killer of three people not far from here, and no one thought to be sure he had no weapons (a knife, for example) on his person when he went into that room?
Or equally to the point, is such incompetence, such stupidity, by which people get badly hurt or die, a feature of everything government does?
I'm in no hurry to get to the next episode in the New England Patriots saga, to be played out later this year as the Summer wanes and the colors of Fall begin to show themselves.
We are still early in the baseball season, watching and caring about The Sox, and the Bruins are about to dispatch the New York Rangers to NHL Limbo as they fight to get the Stanley Cup back, tonight or soon . . .
It is to be hoped, and I duly do.
But I'll be quite content to see that guy back in action with yet another crew of teammates, in his sights or keeping the opposing defenses at bay . . .
Columbia Pictures is leasing the former Lowe’s building off Route 97 to film the "The Equalizer," a big-screen adaption of the popular 1980s television series that starred Edward Woodward as a private detective with a mysterious past who doled out vigilante justice.
Mayor James Fiorentini said production crews are already on scene setting up for filming, which he said will take place inside the building this summer.
David Van Dam, the mayor’s aide, said the movie company has rented the property through August and that filming is expected to take place over a four-week period.
We don't get out to Hollywood much anymore, to spend time amidst the glitterati of that entertainment village, so it's kind of nice to have some of them come here.
Brad Pitt wants you to know: That time he was married to Jennifer Aniston was definitely not great.
The 49-year-old, A-list actor has cast his seven-year marriage to the former "Friends" star, whom he divorced in 2005, in a negative light – telling Esquire magazine that he was wasting his life on drugs during that time.
"For a long time I thought I did too much damage – drug damage. I was a bit of a drifter. A guy who felt he grew up in something of a vacuum and wanted to see things, wanted to be inspired. I followed that other thing. I spent years f***ing off," Pitt told the magazine. "But then I got burnt out and felt that I was wasting my opportunity. It was a conscious change… This was about a decade ago. It was an epiphany."
And now, he said, his relationship with Jolie and their six children have put him on cloud nine.
TLOML and I were at a party with Brad and Jen, back in the day, looking out over the Hollywood hills from her dad's backyard, in fact, back when Brad was more often found on cloud eight, or lower, he now admits.
And yeah, Brad came across on that occasion as an unhappy guy quite possibly on a high - which is to say, in a low - of his own. In any other setting, a kind-of-good-looking dork, lost in himself. I've met a few movie stars in my time, and that would describe some of them, as well, so no surprises there, and no reason to give a damn now as far as Brad goes. His wife dealt with great courage with her terrible health issues, and so I guess that makes Brad someone to talk to, too.
And if so, what could you possibly do to give the day . . . the distinction . . . it deserves.
What dates back as the oldest kind of reptile? Morphological evidence suggests that turtles, having existed for more than 200 million years, are the oldest of all surviving reptiles.
Mostly aquatic or semi-aquatic, and having a bony shell, turtles can range in size from four inches (10 centimeters) to over five feet (1.5 meters) long. The upper shell is called the carapace and the lower shell is the plastron. As for the difference between a turtle and a tortoise: in America, tortoise refers to a kind of terrestrial turtle, brown in color, with a high-domed shell which completely covers the reptile whose head and limbs are drawn inside. In Australia and Great Britain, the words turtle" and "tortoise" are practically interchangeable.
Almost half of the known turtle species are rare, threatened, or endangered. To increase awareness of the plight of the disappearing reptiles, American Tortoise Rescue has named May 23 World Turtle Day.
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