Watch, Read, Listen
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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…
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My friend Chuck Hobbs, a frequent and eloquent writer to places like The Hill posted a photo on facebook which included a naked breast to make a point. Facebook responded by suspending his account and silencing an eloquent voice. In particular Mr Hobbs is a voice of reason regarding the state of race relations in our…
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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…
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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 it, check…
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Regarding deflate-gate Amounton’s Law says “The pressure of a gas of fixed mass and fixed volume is directly proportional to the gas’s absolute temperature.” So P/T = Constant For comparing the same substance under two different sets of conditions, the law can be written as: P1/T1 = P2/T2 I’m also going to do this in…
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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…
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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…
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This is a public request for Charlie Baker or Martha Coakley to show real leadership by stepping up and demanding that
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I’m proud of Massachusetts today.Last night on the debate on WBZ all 5 candidates for governor were featured, including 3 in depende
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I’ve used the login name “fishdan” since 1996 — I own it about everywhere it’s worth having. Because I’m old, my primary usage is via yahoo, but I’m also fishdan@gmail, It’s my primary interface to all things google, including my google+ account and the account I sync my android phone with. Because I’m a good…