Author: Jay Tea

A while ago, I wrote about Wilfredo T. Laboy, the Superintendant of Schools in Lawrence, MA. First, there was his repeated failure to pass a required English fluency test. …

This morning's Boston Globe featured a story about a 68-year-old Level 3 sex offender (by Massachusetts' standards, the type most likely to reoffend) who moved to a nursing home. …

When Howard Dean's "I Have A Scream" speech became the Howl Heard Round the World, I was secretly thrilled. I immediately made it my Shutdown and Critical Stop sounds …

When I was much younger (8 or so), I was a bit of a chess whiz. I regularly beat players my own age, as well as a bit older. …

Every now and then, someone else announces "the death of the two-party system" and calls for the creation of a third party. The last time I heard that, it …

Twice today I've posted pieces here and then had far better titles come to mind. I wish to hell I'd thought of "Oedipus Wrecks" and "Traduttore, Traditore" before I …

This morning, the Boston Globe published the story of a Massachusetts State Representative, one John Binienda. It seems that Mr. Binienda will no longer meet with constituents accompanied by …

A while ago, I wrote about buying an Unterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for my computer. This morning, I was playing around with the management software that came with it. …

Yesterday morning, I found that two of my postings over the weekend had drawn a bit of attention -- and not overly favorable attention. First, I spent a bit …

A while ago, I was dating a woman with two teenage sons. One evening, we were all going out to dinner. As typical, the boys were insulting each other …