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… and yet, Joanne Lip­man had an inter­est­ing Op-Ed piece in the Times. What do you think?

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Yes­ter­day was the may­oral and city coun­cil pri­mary in town– now, Boston’s had the same mayor for six­teen years. We do that– unless something’s hor­ri­bly bro­ken, we mud­dle along. Hell, I some­times think Ray Flynn would still be mayor if he hadn’t been gun­ning for that Vat­i­can Ambas­sador thing– though really, and not […]

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Sort of.  My best friend A. is mar­ry­ing her girl­friend this week­end some­place out of state on Sun­day.  Except she’s not mar­ry­ing her girl­friend, not really.  There will be a wed­ding cer­e­mony affirmed by the Quaker Meet­ing in which they are mem­bers.  There will be fam­ily and friends from all over, includ­ing some, but not […]

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I stood in the kitchen at work with every­one else in my office– lawyers, part­ners, para­le­gals, assis­tants– watch­ing the innau­gu­ra­tion and Pres­i­dent Obama’s speech and feel­ing stern and jubiliant and proud and a wel­ter of things I don’t know I’d call hope.  But I’d call it relief.  I don’t think the speech is going down […]

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Not far from my office, there’s an Immi­gra­tion and Nat­u­ral­iza­tion Ser­vice Appli­ca­tion Sup­port Cen­ter.  The street it’s on is a lit­tle hard to find, in a war­ren of con­fus­ingly laid out one way streets– if you take the wrong turn, you have to cir­cle all the way back around and start all over again.  An […]

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Yes­ter­day was the guilti­est day of the year– the first freez­ing & below, bit­terly cold, windy day of the win­ter.  My guilt started early, and kept going.  First, the cof­fee shop around the cor­ner, where I stopped for my morn­ing cof­fee and break­fast sand­wich to eat in my safe, warm car as I drove across […]

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Yes, we did.

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In this week’s New Yorker, unre­pen­tant demo­c­rat David Sedaris has a scathing and scat­a­log­i­cal take on the unde­cided vot­ers in the upcom­ing election.

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I work in one of the parts of town that’s still tran­si­tion­ing from grotty to more mixed-use. All over town, condo-business-retails spaces are going up, and there is finally some move­ment over at North Sta­tion. So there are lots of con­struc­tion work­ers stand­ing around. One site is clearly union, and there are […]

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Paul Krug­man has an inter­est­ing col­umn in the NYT about this elec­tion and geek civ­i­liza­tion– he uses the term “cul­ture,” but in the con­text of the arti­cle, and con­sid­er­ing the ways in which geeks com­mune, shar­ing infor­ma­tion and iden­tity on the inter­net, I think “civ­i­liza­tion” more prop­erly cap­tures the con­trast with anti-intellectuals who dis­dain individual […]

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