Who knows what Putin was thinking when he painted Zs on the sides of his tanks and sent them into Ukraine last week. If his aim was to rattle Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and force him to capitu...
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2022/03/z-for-zelenskyy.html
Are you playing Wordle , the daily online game that gives you six chances to guess a five-letter word? The big question is what word to use for your first guess. I've extended that idea to fi...
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2022/02/seven-three-word-sequences-for-solving.html
I've all but dropped out of the blogger game, with 17 posts in 2017, 7 posts in 2018, and just this 1 in 2019. And yet somehow in that time period Ive gone from 500,000 views to over 1,000,000. ...
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2019/12/how-to-hit-million-views-without-really.html
At Stark Park in Manchester, New Hampshire on Saturday, July 7, 2018. Colonel John Stark 's 1st New Hampshire Regiment repulsed three British charges at the Battle of Bunker Hill. As...
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2018/07/starkly-living-free-and-dying-in-new.html
On Sunday, April 1, 2018, the City of Cambridge pulled another one of its April Fools Day pranks . These bright green curbside compost bins were distributed to residents across the city. ...
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2018/06/my-garbage-is-eating-better-than-i-am.html
Orange prison jumpsuit, Hillary mask, "Billy Rapes Them & I Slut-Shame and Victim Blame". That's professional heckling. I had to wait in line to get this picture, while an Asian-American coup...
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2018/05/hilary-clinton-was-in-town-to-receive.html
A little CLR in a baggie goes a long way: I should have taken a before picture to show the low water flow with all but a few of the water jets plugged. Here is the after:
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2018/04/the-magically-rejuvenated-shower-head.html
Saturday's March for Our Lives should properly be regarded as a militia rally, if you accept U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's definition of militia as meaning all able-bodied persons ...
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2018/03/massachusetts-militia-rallies-on-boston.html
Yesterday was Ronald Reagan's birthday, and Donald Trump tweeted out this old picture of the two of them from thirty or so years ago: That brings up one of my favorite things to say to peo...
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2018/02/can-trump-top-reagan-and-maybe.html
For at least two and a half years now, my every visit to the blogger control panel is greeted with this ominous message (BOLD added): > European Union laws require you to give European�...
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2018/01/the-european-union-cookie-catch-22.html
My favorite new Christmas song:
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2017/12/christmas-day-by-kasey-chambers.html
Here are some of the midwestern culinary treats over the week of Thanksgiving 2017 in Michigan and Iowa. Cupcake at a cousin's birthday party. Forget dipping your Oreo in a glass of milk. ...
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2017/11/the-2017-thanksgiving-week-of-food.html
I came across this roadside pumpkin farmstand in Hadley, Massachusetts. Or maybe it was South Hadley. The $1.00 pumpkin pile needs some love. The Great Pumpkin was to be found in ...
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2017/10/its-great-pumpkin-norman-rockwell.html
At Herrell’s Ice Cream in Northampton. I stood in line for 45 minutes at the original in Davis Square some 35 years or so ago. The wait this night was only 30 minutes. The guy behind me i...
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2017/10/smooshin-it-old-school.html
Seen at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2017/09/orange-zamboni-mop-glow-at-mfa.html
There is reported to be residential housing development coming too.
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2017/09/future-site-of-garage-b-former-site-of.html
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2017/08/chocolate-moose-in-bennington-vermont.html
I happened on this herd of Hereford cattle in Wellesley while riding my Vespa.
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2017/10/herding-cattle-with-my-vespa.html
Is this a new permanent traffic jam on Brattle Street in Harvard Square? No the city has moved the curbside parking into the middle of the street in order to make room for a new bike lane....
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2017/07/cambridges-newest-death-trap-for.html
I walked by as this section of sidewalk was being poured so I was surmised to find it hardened in this state the next day. What happened? Did a union crew take an ill-timed lunch break? The ...
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2017/06/cambridge-experiments-with-postmodern.html
The Weather Channel app on my iPhone declared today was a nice day for President Trump to pull the U.S. out of the Paris accord on climate change: Road conditions wet, running conditions ideal, a...
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2017/06/well-always-have-paris-when-it-sizzles.html
The town of Rockport, Massachusetts is a bit touristy, but the aptly named harbor still has some old school fishing boats and lobster pots.
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2017/05/rockport-on-memorial-day-weekend.html
Here's what Donald Trump said in his announcement speech on June 16, 2015: > I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will > have Mexico pay for that ...
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2017/04/trumps-great-wall-sinks-into-swamp.html
President Donald Trump gave what many regard as his first truly presidential speech to a joint session of Congress last night, but what struck me was that he was flanked by two men who could also...
http://www.leftbankofthecharles.com/2017/03/picturing-republican-presidents-for.html