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  • Osaka Deserves ADA Protections

    Regarding the story “Osaka tells her side of the story in essay” in the July 9th Globe SportsLog, I would think that the US Open in August will be subject to the Americans with Disabilities Act. Ms. Osaka has shared that she has been subject to bouts of significant depression, which should qualify her for ADA protections, in which case the USTA would have to show that attending all required press conferences would constitute an “essential function” of her duties …

  • When Masks Are Essential, Pictures Matter

    The huge pictures on the front page of Sports on July 16, two on the front, one on page 3, showing Celtics and their barber without masks, represent a dereliction of the Globe’s duty to support community efforts to suppress Covid 19.

    These things matter. Mask wearing is the single best way to suppress the virus and allow our lives and businesses to return to some semblance of normal, and we’re still far from that. Though we’ve entered phase 3, …

  • Governor Baker’s Performance on Covid in Nursing Homes Lacking

    Today’s Globe headline reads, “Same company, same city, two coronavirus outbreaks at separate Medford nursing homes.” In an article published several days earlier, I found the following quote from the facilities’ owner: “I can assure you that we are working around the clock to keep our patients and residents healthy and as safe as possible. We are doing everything in our power — and everything medical experts know as of this time — to protect our patients, residents, and employees.”…

  • Decision Time for the President

    President Trump called determining when to relax social distancing guidelines “the biggest decision I’ll ever make,” but that statement simply shows how clueless he is. While the President dithered and whined, it was left to governors and mayors to impose shelter-in-place lock-downs to protect us from the worst of the pandemic, and we should have every expectation that they will be the ones to decide when to move on from them. What Trump ‘decides’ may influence a few of the …

  • Biden’s Extreme? Really?

    In his editorial, “’Moderate’ Joe Biden has moved way to the left,” Jeff Jacoby omits important context. In addition to one bald misrepresentation, claiming that Obama opposed a public option in the ACA rather than negotiating it away in a futile attempt to woo Republican moderates, he leaves out the history of conservatives dragging their party and our country far right for the past four decades. Their policies since Reagan, and regrettably including Bill Clinton, prescribed the unbridled capitalism that …

  • You too can write an award-winning bestseller! I’m going to show you how!

    The very first step of the process of writing your very own award winning best-seller is to banish all doubt. Listen to your muse, don’t get discouraged, you can do it! I’m going to show you how.

    Second step: be open to feedback. You don’t know it all. You didn’t know you could write an award-winning best-seller, did you. Did you?? So there.

    Be open to feedback, but not everything—be selective. You know best—except maybe you thought you did when …

  • Flood the Zone with Team Masks

    It’s apparent that the near-universal wearing of masks on trains and buses will be key to continuing to suppress the virus so people can return to work and children to school. Wouldn’t it be great if the wealthy owners of our local sports teams would step up to the plate? What if team-branded face masks, now widely available on team websites but apparently seen by those owners as a revenue stream, were handed out for free on buses and in …

  • Let’s Be Honest about Warren’s Single Payer Proposal

    It’s fair for Scot Lehigh (Elizabeth Warren’s health care pipe dream) and Joan Vennochi (The sad truth in SNL’s Warren skit) to question the candidate’s tactics in sticking with her single payer plan, but some of their criticism is dishonest, disingenuous and destructive. Lehigh describes it as “government run healthcare” and “hugely expensive” when in fact it is neither. It would simply unite payment under a government-run system (in that way, like Medicare), which will make it the only proposal …

  • An Offer She Can’t Refuse

    Michael Cohen, in Greenland—to buy or not to buy, points out that our Developer-in-Chief’s offer was rebuffed by a surprised Danish Prime Minister, but as everyone knows, real estate deals take time. I have a suggestion for reviving the deal: make her an offer she can’t refuse.

    A trade—for New England. The US would get Greenland, with all its cool (literally) natural resources, complete with potential golf courses, and would rid itself of all those pesky eggheads and snobs …

  • Writing Instruction Brings New Challenges

    I’m a bit befuddled and, as a result, bogged down in my writing. Otherwise I wouldn’t have time to write this post.

    Nor am I in a position to tout my extensive accomplishments as a published writer: I’ve self-published one novel, to rather local acclaim (meaning family and friends and surrounding households) and have another perpetually almost ready, with another two in progress.

    But that’s the point. I’m your typical lower level, chronically addicted Grubby. I’ve taken many craft and …