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Enabler in Chief

NORTHBOROUGH — Algonquin Regional High School has seen an increase in reported instances of hate since the start of the school year.

https://www.communityadvocate.com/education/algonquin-reports-increased-instances-of-hate-bias-since-august/article_260d33b0-5eea-43b5-9fa2-a7fa3266335f.html

Northborough is considered to be in Central Massachusetts. More Trump supporters tend to be found there than in Eastern Massachusetts. The state’s housing of immigrants generated some resentment in that region.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/08/12/maura-healey-massachusetts-shelter-emergency-homeless-migrants-critics

What interests, and concerns, me here is the racism and abusive bullying being engendered in kids. The President of the United States is a cruel person who openly expresses hostility towards all non-Whites. Kids see their parents openly state their support for him. This has been going on for ten years, since Trump announced his candidacy, so the first wave of kids exposed to this mentality are now teenagers and 20-somethings.

DougDoug Ends, DOuG Carries On

Until Christmas day, I had never heard of DougDoug. He has 3 MILLION followers on YouTube, but he’s just announced that he’s quitting the channel. I’m late to the party that’s coming aparty!

Seven years? I’m in my 20th year of doing this weblog. Next year, the blog can legally get drunk.

The occasion of my becoming aware of DougieDoug was receiving a copy of his self-published book, that someone ordered Amazon to print on demand. (Being DOuG myself, I’m sure that Doug wouldn’t mind me calling him Dougie.)

The book is all DOUG, and Doug, and Doug Doug, but there’s nothing about DOuG. But, then, I probably have half a dozen regular followers to his three MILLION, and one of the six is offline in the hospital.

Chapter 6 of Doug’s book is a good read. Especially if you read it while holding your breath, so you get dizzy before the end.

Weather or Not

Regardless of the snow that’s forecast for tomorrow, I have to drive into downtown Boston for a retina exam.

If the roads are slippery, that will be a good test of my Michelin CrossClimate 2 tires. Of course, they can’t do much to protect me from cars with less capable tires.

UPDATE: I had to reschedule the appointment. When checking the Epic Systems Patient Gateway, the location of the appointment had been changed.

I called the Boston office and was told the exam would be there, but the consultation with the doctor would be more than a 30-minute drive away. A single appointment that required me to be in two places at the same time. And Epic’s software didn’t catch it.

Which reminds me. There isn’t much good to say about the Trumpy attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, but I must admit to liking his lawsuit against Epic Systems.

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-sues-major-medical-record-database-gatekeeping-data-and-restricting