So long as predictions remain popular, and are so numerous as they are today – and so long as they receive notoriety through repetition in the press and on the radio – contrary opinions will increase in importance as thinking aids. “
May 27, 2016
“How would you like your business card to read?” the office receptionist asked. “Francis Patrick Boland,” I answered. It was an outlandish statement on my part. Everyone around me had a nick name. I did not. But then I wasn’t an upper-class Boston Brahmin. “Might as well put my Irish heritage up front,” I thought. It was the spring of...