Not Silence

The punishment they seek

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sun, 05 May 2013 22:07:00 +0000

Now and then a case comes along and we're compelled to examine the issue of capital punishment. Often the subject comes up in an instance where the guilt of the convict is in doubt, or the...

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Snowfall, New Year's Day 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 23:40:00 +0000

Snow from the placeless sky Not falling but wandering here— Perhaps journeying To the scene, The next day empty. Tears spent like necessary coin Achieve mere purchase. There is that...

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Grace

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:43:00 +0000

We fast approach the big day of the big meal,football games, and —for many— some awkward and/or contentious conversation. The different generations and different branches of the family tree pick this...

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What light we have

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 13:48:00 +0000

I'm sure it's not entirely coincidence that the new Spielberg film on Lincoln comes out this past weekend, what with the country having just chosen its president for the next four years. There's...

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Change

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 12:29:00 +0000

I’d like to think this moment changed something—that it could. I don’t want it to change the result of the coming election. I’m already wanting and wishing on that subject enough already. I don’t...

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In flight entertainment

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:51:00 +0000

Found my self in something of an exchange with a conservative friend. I'd been watching him post exuberant status updates on facebook in the aftermath of Romney's debate performance (and President...

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Prescription Dignity

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 19:29:00 +0000

I received the state's "Information For Voters" pamphlet in my mail the other day. By this I mean the actual mail and an actual pamphlet —made of paper —the pulp matter of fallen trees: pages and...

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And here we are having to judge

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:12:00 +0000

There's something strange I've noticed over the past few months, as our presidential politics have been playing out and I've found myself from time to time in exchanges with my more conservative...

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Sniffing at the sweet smell of success

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:59:00 +0000

Well, I went and did it. I sat down and gave a listen to Mitt Romney's speech to the GOP convention from last week. I hadn't found the time to give it a fair airing to my mind until this past...

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Fine print

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:29:00 +0000

We all remember the ruckus when a while back the President let out with the comment that "the private sector's doing fine." The howls of indignant protest went up about a president who was out of...

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I read the news today, oh boy

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:35:00 +0000

The other day I received a complimentary copy of a new local newspaper. It was Edition 1 of "The Middlesex Times" nicely tied off from the summer rain in a clear plastic bag and waiting there on my...

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Ryan shrugged

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 15:58:00 +0000

"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." ~Ayn Rand I'm okay with Mitt Romney's choice of...

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The joke

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:45:00 +0000

When I was at work Friday one of my coworkers tried to make a joke of the Aurora Massacre, something deadpan about equating the mass killing with a really bad review for the movie that was showing. I...

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A song in mind for Woody

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 01:14:00 +0000

It was my freshmen year in high school and I was in English class. We were doing a segment on poetry and had come to study a selection of more contemporary works. The editors of our textbook (and my...

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Thank you, gentlemen

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:15:00 +0000

Well the twenty foot stares in ten foot rooms have been the rule of the day for me, today. And it may be that way for me for a while. Sighs... long sighs. The other night, with seven minutes left in...

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Indiana wants me... Lord, I cant go back there

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sat, 12 May 2012 23:04:00 +0000

I don't know much about Indiana, I've never been there. But chances are real good that pretty soon I'm going to start seeing appeals in my email, asking me (of all people) for money to fund a...

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Political Junkies Hitting the Books for March and April

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 23:46:00 +0000

Holliston DTC's Political Junkies Book Club has already taken on some challenging issues and thought provoking authors. Religion in politics with E.J. Dionne's "Souled Out" and the America's place in...

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On big money wagers and the prevailing wind

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:21:00 +0000

We all remember the bet, right? It was a while back in the primary campaign in a GOP debate. Rival candidate Rick Perry of Texas was accusing Mitt Romney of redacting his past arguments about...

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Malice towards none

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:17:00 +0000

Well, Presidents Day is upon us and those so inclined might take a moment to look back at the presidents that the holiday is meant to commemorate. We might ask if there isn't some wisdom or...

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Are you one, too?

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:10:00 +0000

"I belong to no organized political party. I am a Democrat." ~ Will Rogers Every one has heard that quote, a little piece of self deprecating humor dating back to the 1930's, to a time not so...

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Consensus... imagine that.

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:37:00 +0000

Comments on President Obama's recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by one very likely candidate for the U.S. Senate for Massachusetts in 2012: "I...

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What we begin by reading...

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:35:00 +0000

"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting." ~Henry David Thoreau Read any good...

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The wizard of id

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:17:00 +0000

IMy initial reaction to Herman Cain —I must admit— was that he was one of maybe a number of what I call Rodeo Clown Candidates, supposed contenders without any realistic hope of securing their...

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"...I said that"

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:46:00 +0000

Just the other day I came across this quote I rather liked. It was posted as a neat little piece on facebook by some one of my friends. It struck me as right on target for the larger discussion...

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October light by the water

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:46:00 +0000

"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." ~John F. Kennedy American...

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