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The summer wind carries clouds to sea over Wollaston beach The girls test the water roll up their hair mad pretty they look good together as my  sunshine on a cloudy day bear mother love clams its  her birthday 'yo i know he's rich' one girl says to her cell phone summer ebbs for both  old and young. --J.V.

 

 Remember this is a shtick this is only a shtick and he is sly like a fox like a fox on the run and he's got his hand in your pocket as you're laughing with him. But it's good to have a chuckle even during a disaster. Donald Trump's Minnesota speech in 90 seconds. pic.twitter.com/bclXqqce3w — The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) August 18, 2020

 Colored Oleo $5.85 ma met dad on an oleo run on the side of 32 where he stuck out his thumb she brought him back to waupaca and i happened.  as time went by things got better we got a caddy and we switched to butter but if it werent for oleo there's no me brother.

Texas born and bred James Hand country singer died in June. Sigh. He didn’t really hit the pop stand until his 40s. He... Posted by Jack Vaughan on  Saturday, August 15, 2020 Its the "Irish sports page" again I fear....another obit. Just learned James Hand passed away in June. No greater art is... Posted by Jack Vaughan on  Saturday, August 15, 2020

Boston Pols by Jack Vaughan, from the BU News, 1975. Politics hasn't changed that much over the years. Mayor Kevin White, and his lame and inarticulate opponent, Joseph Timilty, both descend from families who have had their hand in the city politic for years. Both men's fathers were Boston politicians. The father of city Councilor Louise day Hicks, the South Boston patron saint of anti-busing, was also an old Boston pol. The Kennedys weren't the only family of Irish politicians, they just went national. Kevin, as the mayor is called by the insiders, even went so far as to marry the daughter of another family's political leader. Visions of the Corleones dancing on our heads. So as it turns out, The Boston City Council has six out of nine members Irish, and the school committee is entirely Irish. And although there are important issues to be dealt with, 9 times out of 10 it boils down to a little power struggle between the pols , who are all Democrats. Louise Day Hicks ...

 Boston Pols by Jack Vaughan Circa 1975 Reading James Caroll’s The City Below for the Mission Hill Book Club and it brings up a lot of the mood of when I first got to Boston. Looking back in my morgue files – I thought I’d trot out a piece from my days writing for the BU News. The editors there were nice enough to send me down to the City Council to see if I could come up with a story, and it took quite a while but it happened. It was an election year, and I took a hack at understanding the city politic.  That fit nicely with the interests of my BU teachers -- reporters and editors for the Boston Globe and Boston Herald. I’d read Tom Wolfe, Lincoln Steffens’ bio (see below), the Real Paper and the Boston Phoenix, (avidly) and Hunter Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. And I was on the case as cross-city school busing brewed up a storm.  The voice I heard was Mike Barnicle, the Boston Breslin. In fact I also heard the prose of another Globalist,  my BU teacher,...