Saturday, September 25, 2004
The City in the Middle
Geographically speaking that is. Politically and socially it's on the left. And we call it home.
Worcester has a modest cultural life and I often pick up the local "alternative weekly". Ours is city surrounded by rural exurbs so there are quite a few outposts of sanity, as evidenced by this Janet Harvey column on Vietnam and the election.
More typical of the commentary is this guest column by Holy Cross professor David O'Brien. It seems like every other week some Kerry-ite baby boomer from one of the many local colleges pens a variation on the theme of "Don't question our patriotism!", but Prof. O'Brien does a much better job than the moral relativist sloganeers that are the standard fare. But it is the same "diplomacy works better than force" argument that is so woefully inappropriate for the enemy we are fighting. A respectful letter to the editor is in order.
And the local moonbat plague as been making the news in one neighboring town:
[A] decrepit Victorian house at 4 Burbank St., right off South Main, sits behind the huge brick factory building that houses Steel Craft Inc. in the Bramanville section of town. The first floor windows are boarded up with plywood sheets marked with large orange Xs.
Over the past month, the lawn in front of the house has hosted orange- and black-painted signs stating “Millbury Pigs Suck,” “Boston FBI No Good,” and “G.W. Bush’s FBI Terrorized This !!! Family.” Each time they go up, the Millbury police make a visit, and down the signs come — only to reappear.
Up until June 26, longtime Millbury resident and schoolteacher Mary Lukaszek, who passed away that day at the age of 90, had occupied the house. She left the house to one of her best friends, Carole Chiras, and a cousin. Soon after her death, the cousin’s son moved into the house. “The psycho, that’s what I call him...The thing that’s got us all nerved up is the guy’s still living in the house and it’s boarded up and that’s a little bit whacked to me. Who knows what’s going on in there?”...
There have reportedly been a number of confrontations between the occupant, neighbors, and passersby. One driver who stopped to look at the property found himself face-to-face with “an ex-con-looking guy with tattoos staring in my window. He then stepped onto the lawn and started walking toward the house. He didn’t look like a pleasant person.”
Police say the occupant has no known criminal record.
Worcester has a modest cultural life and I often pick up the local "alternative weekly". Ours is city surrounded by rural exurbs so there are quite a few outposts of sanity, as evidenced by this Janet Harvey column on Vietnam and the election.
More typical of the commentary is this guest column by Holy Cross professor David O'Brien. It seems like every other week some Kerry-ite baby boomer from one of the many local colleges pens a variation on the theme of "Don't question our patriotism!", but Prof. O'Brien does a much better job than the moral relativist sloganeers that are the standard fare. But it is the same "diplomacy works better than force" argument that is so woefully inappropriate for the enemy we are fighting. A respectful letter to the editor is in order.
And the local moonbat plague as been making the news in one neighboring town:
[A] decrepit Victorian house at 4 Burbank St., right off South Main, sits behind the huge brick factory building that houses Steel Craft Inc. in the Bramanville section of town. The first floor windows are boarded up with plywood sheets marked with large orange Xs.
Over the past month, the lawn in front of the house has hosted orange- and black-painted signs stating “Millbury Pigs Suck,” “Boston FBI No Good,” and “G.W. Bush’s FBI Terrorized This !!! Family.” Each time they go up, the Millbury police make a visit, and down the signs come — only to reappear.
Up until June 26, longtime Millbury resident and schoolteacher Mary Lukaszek, who passed away that day at the age of 90, had occupied the house. She left the house to one of her best friends, Carole Chiras, and a cousin. Soon after her death, the cousin’s son moved into the house. “The psycho, that’s what I call him...The thing that’s got us all nerved up is the guy’s still living in the house and it’s boarded up and that’s a little bit whacked to me. Who knows what’s going on in there?”...
There have reportedly been a number of confrontations between the occupant, neighbors, and passersby. One driver who stopped to look at the property found himself face-to-face with “an ex-con-looking guy with tattoos staring in my window. He then stepped onto the lawn and started walking toward the house. He didn’t look like a pleasant person.”
Police say the occupant has no known criminal record.
papijoe 8:29 AM
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