Archive for June, 2005

What the heck is wrong with the escalator at the Arlington T-stop? For the last couple of weeks it has been out of action most times I’ve been there. Heck, for the last few months it’s as if repair crews have been banging away at it every so often. So what’s the problem? Did somebody [...]

Harvard Business School is looking for a new jefe, and on the short list is, at least as it is imagined by Business Week Magazine, a Srikant M. Datar. He would, according to the mag, be a “a leader with truly global perspective.” Unlike those white losers who built Harvard Business School as a parochial [...]

Being somewhat of a zombie-movies fan, I’m looking forward to George Romero’s latest installment in his Something of the Dead series, Land of the Dead, which opens on 6/24. The premise of the movie is promising, something about the last city of the living, holding out against the hordes of walking dead stalking outside (too [...]

Yes! More hooligan violence from Sweden! Fans of AIK (Stockholm) charge into fans of the hometeam GAIS (Göteborg) a couple of weeks ago. The clip is short, but the fight actually lasted a few minutes, according to press reports.

Jamaican sprinter sets new world record in the men’s 100 meter dash: 9.77 seconds. Very cool. Let’s hope he isn’t juiced, because that would be very uncool. (Notice how I went with “Hot feet” instead of the tempting “Cool Runnings”)

Over at Patriots.com. I really, really wish he had joined the mini camp and let his agent handle the contract wranglings off-screen, so to speak. But it is what it is. Will the Patriots work out a deal, or ship or him out of town? Is Seymour even interested in working out a deal? Maybe [...]

Mexico is pretty much a gangster republic, a thugocracy where laws don’t really matter a whole lot. The latest meltdown in Nuevo Laredo, where local and federal cops engaged in a gunbattle with each other after gangsters killed the town’s newly appointed police chief, is an illustrative example. Check out this moronic editorial from Dallas [...]

Carpundit notes that the BPD is having parking problems. Perhaps those problems prompted Kathy’s Boys to doublepark this van overnight on Commonwealth Avenue, between Kenmore Square and Charles Gate West. At least the van’s siren didn’t go off in the middle of the night.

While the federal government has largely given up on immigration enforcement, a couple of towns in New Hampshire won’t quit, charging illegal aliens with trepassing. Police continue to arrest undocumented immigrants on trespassing charges, despite pending legal challenges to the practice. In the latest case, Hudson police pulled over Bernarda Gallego, 32, of Nashua, on [...]

That’s what a U.S. military intelligence officer says about the Iraqi-Syrian border. And as with that border, if you can’t seal it, there’s no hope. But there is one difference: We can – and should – leave Iraq, but we can’t very well leave America. The militants showed no mercy. They blindfolded 18 men, shot [...]