If you read Turtleboy Sports, you’ve most likely seen a couple of hit pieces about a friend of mine, Dante Comparetto. As is usual, Turtleboy gets it wrong. This time, though, they’ve actually stumbled upon something: the reason Worcester residents should vote for Dante for school committee. In the Holden,…
About Dan
The reason for this site is for me to have an outlet for things that I want to
write. Like anyone else who takes the time to put pen to paper – or fingers to keyboard – I write about that which I find interesting. Sometimes other people find these labors read more
Archives for May 2017
Watch out for “Dan Margolis” imposters: Turtleboy Sports trolls at it again
I really don’t want this website to be simply an anti-Turtleboy Sports blog. I set it up so that I could have space, now that I’ve changed careers and am longer an official journalist, to write about what I find interesting. I’ve been meaning to sit down and write a review…
Michael Gaffney’s reason for Turtleboy Sports
I’ve written at length over the past couple of months about how Worcester City Council member Michael Gaffney, chair of the Republican City Committee, funds Aidan Kearney’s Turtleboy Sports blog. Gaffney has been too cowardly to actually respond to the question of how he feels about supporting financially things like…
After Trump fires Comey, time for a real “anti-fascism”
The political events of the past few days have been downright frightening. Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey puts on full display the fact that the current president has no intention of abiding by the rules of democracy. The New York Times noted in the wake of Comey’s abrupt…