AN INSIDE LOOK
By Bill Gouveia
It
is now late July, and the weather has been overly warm. That tends to slow down the finely-tuned
brain of your local columnist, which has never been all that swift to begin
with (as many would no doubt eagerly confirm).
But
around this time each year I perform what has been termed a “brain dump”. This is where all the loose facts, opinions,
questions and stray thoughts rattling around in my rather large head that have
not yet resulted in specific columns are flushed out of my system. It’s not a glamorous process, but it has to
be done.
So
as I settle in and turn up the air conditioning, please step back just a bit
from your newspaper or computer screen so as not to be dazzled by the
brilliance about to be unleashed. If you
have sunglasses, I suggest you put them on.
If
you are a bookie doing business in Foxboro, do you think you could qualify for
mitigation money from Plainville by claiming your company is being impacted by
the proposed slot parlor?
How
is it that some of the same people who are fighting for Voter ID laws are also
complaining that we need to keep government out of our lives as much as
possible?
I
believe I have now officially seen every episode of “NCIS” at least six
times. I still can’t believe Gibbs stood
there while Kate got shot. But on the
plus side, Zeva is really cute too.
Is
it me or does Mayor Dumas remind you of that really smart, smug kid you knew in
school? You know, the one that was
almost always right and you were afraid to argue with, but if you could have
gotten in one good head slap and run away, you would have done it?
If
George Zimmerman’s gun had gone off during the struggle with Trayvon Martin and
killed an innocent bystander – do you think one of them would have faced
charges for that death? And if so, which
one do you think it would have been?
Wouldn’t
it have saved a lot of money if the Mansfield Selectmen had just asked Sheriff
Hodgson to have his chain gangs –er, I mean work details – paint the mural near
the train station? That would be a
totally different way to discourage advertising.
You
often hear people complaining that the big box stores like Walmart are killing
small businesses, and preaching that everyone should shop locally. Yet somehow Walmart is always crowded, and
they keep building more. America today
is all about convenience and price.
Has
anyone seen Kevin Paicos? Finding Waldo
is a cinch compared to looking for the current (or is it former?) Foxboro Town
Manager. The taxpayers and citizens of
that good town deserve to know what’s going on.
In
Seekonk, some politicians find it strange the Town Administrator is looking for
another job while still under contract.
Anyone who has watched Seekonk’s local politics for any length of time
is wondering how she could not be looking for another job.
The
Red Sox have the best record in the American League, are playing exciting
baseball, and seem like a bunch of genuinely nice guys. So why am I still having trouble taking them
seriously as World Series contenders?
And
speaking of the Sox, watching Norton’s own Adam Pellerin on NESN makes his
hometown folks very proud.
There
is no truth to the rumor North Attleboro selectmen will put a non-binding
question on the next local election ballot asking voters if they would like to
stop seeing non-binding questions on the local election ballot.
Any
day now I will become a grandfather for the third time. This has to be nature’s reward for getting
older.
If
you don’t laugh at the satellite TV commercial featuring “The Hoppa”, you just
don’t have a sense of humor. Same goes
for the “Hump Day” commercial with the camel.
It
has been almost 40 years since I graduated from Norton High School. Now with the much needed building renovations
nearing completion, the school finally looks better than I do. But come to think of it, that bar was really
never set very high.
Bill Gouveia is a local columnist and
can be emailed at aninsidelook@aol.com and followed on Twitter at
@Billinsidelook.
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