To Hell With Harvard
I think I'll skip the ceremony. I may be a bad Catholic, but.... "Archdiocese assails plans for black mass by Harvard group" by David Filipov | Globe staff May 08, 2014A black mass is an often...
View ArticleSlow Saturday Special: Back Page Bar Car
A bottoms-up breakfast this morning:"Last call came Friday for the bar cars on commuter trains between Manhattan and Connecticut, a final run for rolling taverns where city workers gathered for decades...
View ArticleSlow Saturday Special: 38 Studios Ruined Rhode Island's Reputation
"38 Studios default would sink R.I. bonds, report says" by Erika Niedowski | Associated Press May 10, 2014PROVIDENCE — Defaulting on the debt related to 38 Studios’ bankruptcy would sink Rhode...
View ArticleSlow Saturday Special: Tufts Submits to Title IX
It must have been the bolger in Obama's pants:"In a reversal, Tufts University has accepted a finding by the US Department of Education that its policies on how to handle sexual assault cases have been...
View ArticleSlow Saturday Special: Hingham Hoax?
I'll let you know when it dawned on me:"Hingham police seek woman who allegedly offered child a ride" by Jennifer Smith | Globe correspondent May 09, 2014Hingham police are looking for a female...
View ArticleSlow Saturday Special: DHS Secured Telex
"TelexFree owners charged with fraud; One arrested, other a fugitive in alleged $1b pyramid scheme" by Priyanka Dayal McCluskey and Erin Ailworth | Globe Staff May 09, 2014The two owners of a...
View ArticleDCF F*** Up Due to Faxes
UPDATE: Baby girl under watch of DCF found dead in WeymouthI'm sorry, but I'm sick of state excuses for failure -- especially from the political cla$$."Mass. child welfare agency hamstrung by old...
View ArticleSlow Saturday Special: Hardware Store Hits Hard Times
Hardware stores: Barometer of civic healthRelated:"Mark and Paul O’Brien, brothers who grew up in Bowdoin-Geneva and who own the store together, held on as long as they could." How many blocks is...
View ArticleSlow Saturday Special: Somerville Shopping Center
It's not my world, so why bother? Sorry."Assembly Row outlet stores to debut this month" by Taryn Luna | Globe Correspondent May 10, 2014A Nike Factory Store and Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th are among...
View ArticleSlow Saturday Special: Prager's Place
"Raising Provincetown Barn to new heights" by Geoff Edgers | Globe Staff May 10, 2014PROVINCETOWN — The temperature was just above freezing last week....And yet I got this on my front page (sigh).On...
View ArticleHomes are Part of a Healthy Economy
First thing you gotta do is fill that home:"Fear of economic blow as births drop around world" by Bernard Condon | Associated Press May 08, 2014NEW YORK — Nancy Strumwasser, a high school teacher...
View ArticleSlow Saturday Special: Ebola Eradicated in West Africa
The caterwauling from the blogs about it being a global genocide and depopulation plan must have made TPTB pull back on it for now. World is really becoming unwieldy for them to manage these days,...
View ArticleSlow Saturday Special: Sudan Peace Pact Signed With Invisible Ink
I never saw it in print, folks.... "Pact signed to end South Sudan war" by Benno Muchler | New York Times May 10, 2014ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — President Salva Kiir of South Sudan and the leader of the...
View ArticleSlow Saturday Special: Scrubbing South Africa's Election Results
See for yourself...."ANC dominates S. Africa election" by Norimitsu Onishi and Alan Cowell | New York Times May 10, 2014JOHANNESBURG — With counting virtually complete Friday after South Africa’s...
View ArticleSlow Saturday Special: Parking These Korean Protests
This looks like as good a spot as any.... "Three weeks after South Korea’s ferry tragedy, the government on Wednesday said it miscounted the survivors, the latest of many missteps that have eroded the...
View ArticleReading the Tea Leaves of the Republican Primaries
I got two sets of returns, and my read is the rigged machines are backing the e$tabli$hment. "Candidates backed by Tea Party fare poorly in GOP primaries" by Jonathan Martin | New York Times May 07,...
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Slow Saturday Special: Minimum Political Coverage
I'm sorry, folks, but I no longer like or am fooled by the $hit-$how fooley of politics. In fact, I'm finding more and more offen$ive with each pa$$ing day."Romney urges GOP to back minimum wage hike"...
View ArticleSlow Saturday Special: Baker Close to Christie
That explains the waistline.... "Baker denies connection between donation, investment" by Frank Phillips and Jim O’Sullivan | Globe Staff May 09, 2014Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker...
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Slow Saturday Special: Kayyem Pepper
I'll try to spice it up for you:"Juliette Kayyem goes on offensive in race for governor; Plans rally in Arlington and more aggressive campaign in bid for attention" by Michael Levenson | Globe staff...
View ArticleNigerian Wedding Reception
It's a royal one in more ways than one:"British, US experts join Nigeria search for abducted girls" by Michelle Faul and Haruna Umar | Associated Press May 10, 2014LAGOS, Nigeria — The international...
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