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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 27/09/2026

We have certainly gotten a lot of wind and rain from this storm, but if Dedham now has a shore then we truly are in biblical territory. 😳🧐😂

Screenshot of a Boston25 news story about the Nor’easter showing a picture of a beach supposedly in Dedham, which in fact lacks any shoreline.

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 19/08/2026

Analogizing the Clancy prosecution to the Salem witch trials is quite apt the more I think in it, and I can’t help but wonder if Reddington drawing that analogy during closing might not co-opt the prosecution’s religious bias in her favor. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/19/m...

Boston Globe headline reads “‘The witch trials in Mass. never ended.’ Mothers, nurses attend Clancy trial in solidarity.”

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 18/08/2026

I did not expect Lindsay Clancy’s prosecutors to inject this sort of religious bias into the proceedings, which is likely to backfire, but I should have remembered this is going on in the Boston suburbs so that’s on me.

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 18/05/2026

This is a key insight about the relationship between spirituality and creativity:

He discovered the thing that artists know, which is that in the absence of any purpose or meaning, repetition will provide some sort of structure to build on.

From Ann Leckie’s Radiant Star

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 06/04/2026

Just going to set this right here: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/03/a...

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 02/04/2026

Quite the lunch indeed! cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vpynBu2aw73w...

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 12/03/2026

Too many Brookline voters, and especially leaders, are in the middle of the Venn diagram:

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 06/03/2026

Taps the sign. Marblehead has been staunchly opposed to #MBTACA, so is clearly in the low density circle. Now they have to decide whether they will have high taxes or service cuts. Or some of each! 🤗

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 03/03/2026

As we in #Brookline begin the discussion over this override, this is the shape of the debate:

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 28/02/2026

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

A photograph of a bison standing next to a prairie dog with mountains in the background.

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 24/02/2026

There’s a very interesting @brooklinenews.bsky.social story to be had in asking all elected officials to locate themselves on the Venn diagram:

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 10/02/2026

The judge in the Eastman case specifically found (page 38 of the decision) that Favorito's

Image from the John Eastman disbarment decision by the California State Bar Court trial court from page 38:
"“multiple counting” and “vote flipping” conclusions were debunked by Halderman and Harry Hursti and Dr. Phillip Stark, and other computer scientists and election security experts who stated on November 16, 2020, that claims regarding technical vulnerabilities were unsubstantiated."
Decision available here: https://discipline.calbar.ca.gov/portal/DocumentViewer/Index/WR3CtyPXSTa3F3Va0_TEPF_IL0cQHVvfM6M4w8NGG0Jd4BRF21Sw8EVD7XKjukeQYXkw9JcsUiVb8bnoYhzffKlFkLRnwcrBsVfYmr-RTOM1?caseNum=SBC-23-O-30029&docType=Disposing%20Document&docName=Decision%20-%20Trial&docTypeId=266&isVersionId=False&p=0

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 04/12/2025

It probably didn’t help that the first person to appear on television riding one was… Niles Crane.

Niles Crane rides into his brother Fraiser’s apartment on a Segway saying “Hello, foot people!”

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 31/10/2025

Some pumpkins are more terrifying than others

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 30/10/2025

The DHS remake is seriously low budget. Netflix did it better.

Sergeant Major von Rumpel from All the Light We Cannot See on Netflix, played by Lars Eidinger, coming down the stairs in a trench coat pointing a gun.

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 28/09/2025

In 2012 I got to visit the legendary birthplace of Confucius in Shandong Province. It’s a bit like Christians visiting Bethlehem!

A view of the entrance to the cave, down a paved path, next to a pond, where Confucius is said to have been born.

A view of the interior of the cave where Confucius is said to have been born.

A sign identifying the cave shown in the other two pictures as the legendary birthplace of Confucius.

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 25/09/2025

Just reading the abstract book and I assume you meant founded?

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 23/09/2025

Analects 2.3, tr. Slingerland

The Master said, “If you try to guide the common people with coercive regulations (zheng ) and keep them in line with punishments, the common people will become evasive and will have no sense of shame. If, however, you guide them with Virtue, and keep them in line by means of ritual, the people will have a sense of shame and will rectify themselves.”

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 07/09/2025

No matter the size, all cats love sketches!

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 27/07/2025

Now here’s a stumper: Which of these is the worse example of Christianity? Both in today’s @theguardian.com.

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 13/07/2025

Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social understands Confucius’ point about the importance of rectifying names for governance: Analects 13.3 (trans. Ames & Rosemont, 1999)

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 01/07/2025

I dunno, from this description the most appropriate use Alligator Alcatraz sounds like a home for retired presidents with dictatorial aspirations. And their cabinets, of course.

From the Guardian:
Trump praises 'Alligator Alcatraz' after tour of controversial detention facility in Florida Everglades
After touring the detention facility in Florida, Donald Trump is speaking to reporters alongside state governor Ron DeSantis and homeland security secretary Kristi Noem.

Trump said of the visit:

The trip was nice and the job they’ve done is fantastic. And this is what you need.
Asked if this is the model going forward, Trump said:

It can be.
You don’t always have land so beautiful and so secure. They have a lot of bodyguards and a lot of cops in the form of alligators, you don’t have to pay them so much. But I wouldn’t want to run through the Everglades for long. It will keep people where they’re supposed to be.

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 11/04/2025

Since Facebook doesn’t want anyone to read this, I figured I should. You should too! bookshop.org/p/books/care...

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 01/04/2025

I mean… in a manner of speaking…

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 27/03/2025

The Tufts students and alums demanding more of their institution, as the Boston Globe reports, are right to do so. Alas, with 18.8% of Tufts’ revenue coming from sponsored grants and contracts, I doubt that leadership will so step up. access.tufts.edu/sites/defaul... (See pg. 9)

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 05/03/2025

The view from the other side of the wall:

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 28/02/2025

Gov. Healey: “Massachusetts is going to stay true to who we are.” Who we are: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/27/m...

Boston Globe headlines about MA violating deadlines for hearings for parents who lose custody of children and the city of Everett “overpaying” its mayor.

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 28/01/2025

Okay, so when they said a “new exhibition space, I did not expect them to mean my gym, but here we are!

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 26/01/2025

“Migrants for theeeee but not for meeeeeee!!!!”

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 25/01/2025

George Lakoff’s _The Political Mind_ is awfully relevant to the current moment. Also, I can’t help but think a major reason the Dems lost was that they ran a 21st century election with 18th century politicians.

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Lawrence Whitney @brlawrencelc.com · 24/12/2024

Why yes it is because I ate it all.

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