The 3rd annual Ciara Durkin Toy Drive will take place on Saturday, December 5 from 12-2pm at the Kennedy Senior Center, 440 East Squantum St Quincy, MA to benefit Toys for Tots.
Special guests will be in attendance for pictures and autographs.
Number of comments: 0 Thanks to facebook, I have rediscovered my friend Karen from Cranston who moved to California many years ago. She has a wonderful blog, Tour de Farce.
Another site I recommend is Left Take "Leftake is dedicated to showcasing the creativity, humor, and viewpoints of the progressive" [...]
Number of comments: 0 Yesterday, I received from the local chapter of the American Friends Service Committee the email below...
Action Alert: AFSC and many other groups have mobilized thousands of calls to the White House to plead for no escalation and for an end to the occupation of Afghanistan. It [...]
Thursday, November 26, 2009 Happy Thanksgiving from Sarah
We just finished a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with family in Washington State. It's strange being in a foreign country on such a very American holiday, but we made the best of it by setting [...]
Number of comments: 0 The School of the Americas (SOA) has been training people to commit unmentionable crimes since 1946. It has a new name, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation with new acronyms, and the curriculum now includes 8 (eight!) hours of human rights instruction. The wikipedia entry is worth visiting.
Number of comments: 0 The powerful blog, GRACE PALEY: Pressing The Limits of Action has posted the text of the Providence Journal article from yesterday, and the accompanying photo.
This blog is followed and discovered by readers of Grace Paley's poetry and fiction, and by her many students and friends and family [...]
Number of comments: 0 I do not know if I will be able to attend, but I sure hope so. Here is an excerpt from the website of the Rosenberg Fund For Children.
Date: Sunday, 22 November 2009
Southern New England premiere of the new French documentary (English language [...]
As has been widely acknowledged outside of our fair state:
On Tuesday November 10, 2009, Governor Donald Carcieri killed a bill that would allow non-married couples the right to plan the funerals of their' [...]
13th Annual Buy Nothing Day Winter Coat Exchange Friday, November 27th, 2009 10:00am - 2:00pm Buy Nothing Day logo If you have a coat to give, please drop it off. If you need a coat, please pick one up. [...]
Number of comments: 3 Alas, this blog has been receiving increasing robotic sales and porn pitches. This would bother me less if the readership was also growing significantly.
Ironically, the spam seems to be drawn to one of Democommie's posts...
Once last year there was a spam comment that was so brief' [...]
Number of comments: 1 Here is a quote which I received in my email and have never seen. If anyone knows its origins, I will gladly give that person(s) credit:
"El pasado te podrá servir como trampolín, nunca como sofá." Anónimo (Personaje desconocido)
Number of comments: 3 I blogged a few months ago about the departure of the famed Hudson Street Market and the hope that something good would be born in its place (space?)...
And Yes, we have a Friendly Neighborhood Delicatessen:
The Hudson Street Delicatessen already has a [...]
Number of comments: 2 I have been a deeply dormant blogger, but the encouragement of the NinjaNurse, and Democommie and the famous bloggers of Newport and Other Mysterious Settings is waking me from the slumber.
This past Saturday at a wonderful Halloween event in my neighborhood, I had the great fortune to see [...]
Number of comments: 1 This is from my place. The "birfers" and "deafers" are beginning to become the blackhole of batshit KKKrazy in our nation. The pull of teh Stoopid is so great that no light--of either scholarship or humor--may escape.
Number of comments: 4 This is cross posted at polrant.blogspot.com
According to recent news reports on Yahoo! There have been more confrontations at "Town Meetings" on the proposed healthcare bill. One congressman apparently had a swaztika painted on his door. I assume the painting was done by one of the zealots who are [...]
You live in a housing development with lots of foreclosures, rundown properties and roach infestations. This is the fault of immigrants, legal or otherwise, who got mortgages from banks that they should not have been [...]
Number of comments: 2 "Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. [...]
Here's an excerpt from Amanda Milkovits' article in The Providence Journal:
CRANSTON, R.I. -- A top recruiter for the Air National Guard is being held on numerous drug charges after state police and Air Force investigators seized illegal drugs and about $40,000 worth [...]
My friend, David McReynolds sends me more valuable articles, links, announcements than I can possible comprehend, and I won't claim to understand fully the significance of this photo.
Number of comments: 3 Last month, we found out that the real reason the Bush administration tortured prisoners was the same reason that evil people always torture prisoners -- to extract false confessions. In particular, as we learned from Col. Lawrence Wilkerson today, Vice President Richard "Dick" Cheney was looking for an [...]
Another in a haphazard series of non-inflammatory posts.
Gentle Reader:
I journeyed to Johnson City, NY on Sunday. The purpose of the trip was to meet a person I'd met on the blogs, William Yelverton, who was playing in a concert at' [...]
I am enormously grateful to Patricia Raub and many other community members for persistent advocacy...
There remain the important logistics, legalities and now concerns over how many workers will be sacrificed by the PPL in order to maintain their administrative budget.
Number of comments: 0 The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a federal class action lawsuit to stop the inhumane treatment of children at a juvenile detention center in Mississippi and to force officials to provide sanitary facilities and mental health treatment to young people confined there.
Number of comments: 0 I have only 10 minutes to type, so please do not consider this little post a fair representation of my respect for Mr. Robinson and his family.
I found a local blog, Monkey Mind, with a youtube video...
Number of comments: 5 Yes, those rumors you've heard are true -- conservatives are planning to teabag the Statehouse on Wednesday, April 15. The teabagging is due to take place between three and six in the afternoon, when conservative protestors will put their mouths where their money is and teabag state legislators, passers-by,' [...]
Number of comments: 1 "Planet of No Return", a 30,000-word novella, appeared in the May 1951 issue of the venerable Amazing Stories. The novella was written by the magazine's editor, Howard Browne, and appeared under the Amazing house name Lawrence Chandler.
Imagine, if you will, that Edgar Rice Burroughs had decided to write' [...]