Writing to Inspire Thinking

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Threescore and Ten Author's note: In keeping with my plan to check out on my birthday for the sake of balance, I have survived another and look forward to, at a minimum, 364 more days on this planet....

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The Joy of Purity Joe Broadmeadow There are three things in this world that should never be changed. Ice cream should be vanilla....

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Okay, now this is getting ridiculous by Joe Broadmeadow Today, I turn seventy years old. I want to say that again because it hasn't sunk in and I'm not sure it ever will.... https://joebroadmeadowblog.com/2026/07/25/okay-now-this-is-getting-ridiculous/

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A Conversation on the Porch The year is 2050. I am now 94 and engaged in a conversation with my two grandsons, Levi, age 31, and Wyatt, age 29....

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What the Ice Keeps The memory didn't come back all at once. It came back the way ice breaks in March—a crack, then another, then the whole black river moving again....

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The Reginald Cycle A Play in Five Acts on the Subject of Dogs, their Droppings, their Masters, and the Mysteries of the Walk…...

The Reginald Cycle

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Follow the Evidence: What Rhode Island’s Overdose Numbers Actually Tell Us By Joe Broadmeadow For twenty years I built cases on evidence. You learn quickly that a number without context can lie as easily as any witness.... https://joebroadmeadowblog.com/2026/07/21/follow-the-evidence-what-rhode-islands-overdose-numbers-actually-tell-us/

Follow the Evidence: What Rhode Island’s Overdose Numbers Actually Tell Us

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The Traitors Within By Joe Broadmeadow Shakespeare gave the line to a minor character in Measure for Measure, almost in passing: "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might find by fearing the attempt." …...

The Traitors Within

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Last Thoughts Author's note: This is not predicated on any particular awareness of a pending expedited change in my mortality....

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I Spent Twenty Years Chasing Real Conspiracies. Trump’s Election “Bombshell” Wouldn’t Survive a Preliminary Hearing. By Joe Broadmeadow In two decades carrying a badge—working narcotics and a stint on an FBI task force—I learned a lesson that outlasted the pension: suspicion is not evidence....

I Spent Twenty Years Chasing Real Conspiracies. Trump’s Election “Bombshell” Wouldn’t Survive a Preliminary Hearing.

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The Turing Exemption The first time I shot a man who wasn't a man, I threw up behind the evidence van and then wrote the cleanest report of my thirty-year career....

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The Slow Visitor In 1977, the United States launched Voyager I spacecraft. Sometime in November 2026, after traveling for 49 years, it will acheive a remarkable and sobering milestone....

The Slow Visitor

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Let Police Officers See the Video First (Author's note: this piece first appeared in Rhode Island Current and on the News from the State national platform....

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The Disappointing Future I was promised a flying car. I want that on the record because a contract was made, not in ink and not by anyone with legal standing, but by a cartoon that aired in 1962 with the confidence of a sworn deposition.... https://joebroadmeadowblog.com/2026/07/16/the-disappointing-future/

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The Hydrogen Line The signal arrived on a Tuesday, which seemed wrong in ways Mara Voss could not explain. Important things, she had always believed, should announce themselves with some gravitational ceremony—a Sunday, perhaps, or a storm....

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Lights, Please Charlie Brown sat on the porch of the assisted-living facility with a mug of decaf he wasn't allowed to drink and watched Linus fold his blanket into a perfect square....

Lights, Please

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The First Murder Case The courtroom was full long before the judge arrived, a quiet electricity humming through the spectators like a storm waiting to break....