Not Silence

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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Americans for Prosperity... democracy, not so much

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 22:09:00 +0000

A few years of years back, inadvertently, I offended a couple of acquaintances of mine here in my home town of Holliston, Massachusetts. I was walking along the street. It was the week just before an...

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A modest proposal: come reason together

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:56:00 +0000

A while back I put up something you could probably call wishful thinking on this blog I participate in pretty regularly called Homes & Co. —"a blog for independent minds" we like to call it. The...

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Flying with my father

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:29:00 +0000

The picture is of my dad as an aspiring pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps —Waco, Texas — I am not sure of the exact year, it is sometime in the late 1940's. He had already done his service in the Navy...

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The lady doth protest too much

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:40:00 +0000

“They're going to bring in the Justice Department? I'm a housewife, for Pete's sake, who said there needs to be a certain standard, a threshold. Voting is a privilege.” That's how Christen Varley...

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Local Memory

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:38:00 +0000

With the news from Wisconsin, and the rhetoric making the rounds, about those dastardly unions and their supposedly unreasonable demands (even as they concede every immediate monetary request that...

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Obama's Fight

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:02:00 +0000

Barack Obama arrived in office a little over two years ago with the hope and excitement of his supporters and he arrived with his critics and detractors, too. That's simply the way it is in our...

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All up in arms

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 20:43:00 +0000

We have a new business here in Holliston, set up right on the main street through the center of town and just in time for the holidays. The one little detail about the new establishment that has...

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Paying forward or passing through

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:01:00 +0000

I heard an interview with Charlie Baker on the radio just the other morning and I liked what I heard. It was a relaxed conversation meant, I'm sure, to simply show the human side of the candidate. On...

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All history is supposed

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:44:00 +0000

I've reached an age where fifty year chunks of time don't seem so big. My own lifetime is nearly such a chunk, now. And so it is that I've been looking at what we call history a little differently of...

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The debate that wasn't

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 01:02:00 +0000

The other night in Holliston we were supposed to have a debate. The chairs of the Holliston Democratic Town Committee and the Republican Town Committee had actually put together a common effort to...

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October surprise: nothing was delivered

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:24:00 +0000

Just a quick thought or two on Paul Loscocco pulling out of the Cahill campaign. My esteemed colleague, Dan Haley and I were talking the other night on Mary Greendale's HCAT show 'Just Thinking' and...

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Here come the warm jets

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:55:00 +0000

The news this morning was that the Republican Governors' Association will be releasing their latest multi-million dollar ad campaign targeted directly on Deval Patrick. Up to now the cross hairs had...

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Once more from the dog in the race

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:53:00 +0000

by Tom Driscoll I spent a good amount of time at the polls Tuesday. Holding a sign for Mike Lake. I thought he was a candidate running for Auditor (but according to my radio the next morning...

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Mike Lake, a dog in the race

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:38:00 +0000

Last week I remarked on the way the tiny little analysts in my morning radio were reporting the different primary results from around the nation —how it seemed the sum and substance of the political...

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Dollars to donuts... to democracy

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:15:00 +0000

I woke in the morning to the radio news, and the talk was of the primary election results in Alaska and Florida, in Vermont and Arizona. There was some talk of the influence (or lack thereof) of...

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Like Ike

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:44:00 +0000

By Tom Driscoll It's hard not to make the comparisons. Especially when we take measure of our presidents, it's popular sport to bring out our heroes of bygone days and pine for those lost...

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Don't blame me... I'm not from anywhere

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:05:00 +0000

I'll assume most of us remember the popular bumpersticker slogan, "Don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts." I think the sentiment first started appearing on Massachusetts Liberal Mobile bumpers...

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Another president's day

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:50:00 +0000

"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress." That's a remark Ronald Reagan made, more than a generation ago, as he...

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The tough get going?

noreply@blogger.com (Tom Driscoll, Profiled!) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:03:00 +0000

News of Evan Bayh's announced "retirement" has really been grating on my nerves. First of all he's not retiring. He's electing not to seek re-election. To say he's "retiring" is to assume the...

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