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About Me: My name is James A. Nollet. I'm retired, a former chemist with the US FDA for 26 years, semi-pro trombonist, now living in Poland
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Comment on: Surveillance: Better safety, or just less privacy? - Opinion - The Boston Globe
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Comment on: Dan Shaughnessy tries to piece it together - Sports - The Boston Globe
Next year's Superbowl in the Meadowlands is weather Russian Roulette. While early February is a couple of weeks past the statistically coldest day of winter in the Northeast, it is smack dab on the st more »
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Comment on: Dan Shaughnessy tries to piece it together - Sports - The Boston Globe
Not quite. White southerners began gravitating to the Republican Party in 1964. Of the 5 states Barry Goldwater carried that year, 4 were from the deep South. And Nixon's winning electoral strategy wa more »
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Comment on: Dan Shaughnessy tries to piece it together - Sports - The Boston Globe
In one of Jim Bouton's books, he told of the time he sat down and had dinner with Jackie Robinson and his wife (whose name escapes me). Bouton was politically quite liberal in those days. And he was s more »
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Comment on: âWhat if the âTuck Ruleâ never was? - Sports - The Boston Globe
PRECISELY! more »
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Comment on: On balance, the Iraq war was worth it - - Boston.com
According to www.thereligionofpeace.com, in the past 30 days, Iraq exerienced 42 instances of terror, which killed a total of 300 people and wounded 661 -- this in a face of a Gallup poll taken there more »
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Comment on: On balance, the Iraq war was worth it - - Boston.com
The reason for the final withdrawal of American troops was Iraq's refusal to agree to immunize American soldiers against criminal accusations for any violence committed. The refusal was a non-starter more »
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Comment on: âBlade runnerâ Olympian Oscar Pistorius charged with murder - Sports - The Boston Globe
Speaking as one who himself has been arrested -- several times -- I ALWAYS held my head high when being led away in cuffs. It is dishonorable and cowardly to hide one's face when being arrested, or e more »
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Comment on: Would we be better off without the NFL? - - Boston.com
Here is a way to lessen the physical impacts of vicious hits: Have a weight restriction on at least certain classes of players. Let us say, for example, that defensive linemen cannot exceed X weight, more »
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Comment on: Only a handful of popes have resigned, the last in 1415 - World - The Boston Globe
Pope Marcellinus (296 - 304) was forced to resign his papacy after he succumbed to pressure from the Roman Emperor Diocletian and offered incense to pagan gods. This was during the deadly wave of Dio more »
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Comment on: David Prouty takes over as general counsel for baseball playersâ union - - Boston.com
Scott Boras is Derek Lowe's agent. Last year, he talked the Yankees into hiring Lowe for 2 months because he was able to show the Yankees that, while Lowe didn't have the stamina anymore to go 7 inni more »
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Comment on: Would we be better off without the NFL? - - Boston.com
Does anyone remember a time when the NFL marketed a tape called "NFL's Greatest Hits"? The NFL wasn't selling wins or losses with THAT tape. And not long ago, ESPN ran a weekly segment called "He Go more »
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Comment on: Would we be better off without the NFL? - - Boston.com
I remember around the end of the 1960's, the Kansas City Chiefs had a pair of defensive linemen who were considered freaks of nature at the time. Buck Buchanan and Ernie Ladd actually weighed over 30 more »
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Comment on: Curt Schilling says he was encouraged to use PEDs late in his career - Sports - The Boston Globe
In his book, Jose Canseco said, the biggest impact steroids had on his career wasn't in building big muscles -- he was a gym rat who worked out constantly and would have become strong anyway -- but in more »
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Comment on: Robert Parish yearns for NBA coaching job - Sports - The Boston Globe
Casey Stengel once said, some old players only learn how to say "hello" when they should be learning how to say "goodbye." It sounds like Chief only now is learning how to say "hello." But 59 years more »
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Comment on: Requiring insurance could help curb gun violence - Editorial - The Boston Globe
I favor universal gun ownership. And I also LIKE this idea of insurance. There was a case the other day in Ohio. Someone with a concealed-carried permit had driven home with his 2-year old son. A more »
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Comment on: Lance Armstrong may admit to doping to resume athletic career - Sports - The Boston Globe
I couldn't care less whether Armstrong used, especially in THAT sport where, reportedly, EVERYBODY used. But I sure as hell don't like LYING about it.
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Comment on: For baseball, a landmark Hall of Fame vote - Sports - The Boston Globe
Jim Bouton asked in his landmark 1970 classic "Ball Four," "Are greenies fabulous? Yes." Greenies were as universally and easily as M&M's and popped by players as frequently. OF COURSE they were "p more »
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Comment on: For baseball, a landmark Hall of Fame vote - Sports - The Boston Globe
Cafardo posted a list of the Yankee core players and thinks they'll be a strong team, and then asked, "What am I missing?" Here are the answers: 1) His list of core players did NOT include A-Rod. Of more »
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Comment on: People are truly good at heart? Sadly, no - Opinion - The Boston Globe
I remember when I was 5 years old. My mother (partially Indian, partially Irish, temperamentally ALL Irish) sat me on her knee and said, "Son, if you never remember anything else I ever tell you, you more »
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Comment on: The âotherâ Ross may be most significant Sox addition - Sports - The Boston Globe
Scott Boras represents Derek Lowe. Last year, Boras convinced the Yankees to pick up Lowe as a relief pitcher by showing them that Lowe could still pitch effectively, but not for a lot of innings any more »
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Comment on: Lawmakers Want inquiry on FBIâs Petraeus Investigation - Nation - The Boston Globe
Here is why this case has political consequences: Benghazi. The Øbama administration appears possibly to have ignored cries for help and allowed Americans to die in Benghazi, and then covered up the n more »
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Comment on: For Red Sox, chemistry will be as important as talent - Sports - The Boston Globe
So the AL with its stupid DH batted .255 this year and the DH-less NL batted .254. So tell me -- what did the stupid DH do for baseball this year? more »
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Actually, it's just the OPPOSITE -- it is ØBAMA who could get more popular votes but lose the election. Here's how: *** Consider these three states -- and throw in MA in the mixture if you like. 1) Ca more »
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Comment on: Brownâs Guard service has taken on political patina since he joined Senate - Politics - The Boston Globe
SENATOR Brown is perhaps the most unusual National Guardsman in American history. So why would he not get treatment unique to his circumstance?
What a STUPID non-story this is.
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Bild am Sonntag is Germany's answer to USA Today. Last sunday, they ran an interview with Germany's Minister of the Interior Hans-Peter Friedrich, whose country is set to stage their own marathon in H more »