Archive for October, 2005

President George W. Bush buried the Harriet Miers nomination debacle by nominating judge Sam Alito as Sandra Day O’Connor’s replacement. While there are no gurantees in life, his confirmation, and I think he will be confirmed, will strengthen the law-interpreting wing of the Court, while weakening its law-writing cabal. The Left has already begun yammering [...]

The bad news is that the Patriots secondary still stinks. To make things worse, the run defense stinks, too, or at least it did against the Buffalo Bills. Fortunately, there were some good news as well, most notably Tedy Bruschi’s improbable return to football after his stroke shortly after the Patriots latest Super Bowl victory. [...]

The all-estrogen Lifetime channel is showing a four-hour mini-series about “Kate Morozov, a Russian-born, New York City detective, who, after witnessing the suicide of a young girl trafficked into prostitution, joins the fictional Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), which attempts to expose and arrest the criminals who exploit such women.” The “fictional Immigration and [...]

Where: Kenmore Square T-stop When: eight thirtyish this morning What: a broken trolley Who: Scores of stranded passengers Irritation was spreading among the wannabe passengers. A woman next to me was going on about how T-workers should be fired, but weren’t going to because of the unions. I was trying to decide whether to wait [...]

There’s a special place in town for this kind of stuff and it ain’t here: Five teens are to be arraigned today in Boston Juvenile Court on charges that they robbed a man at gunpoint near the intersection of Boylston Street and Park Drive on Saturday. The victim, whose name was not released, told police [...]

When I went to a New England Patriots game last year, it was pretty cold and I was dressed just slightly too lightly to handle the full three hours plus without freezing. Luckily, some bank or something was giving away Patriots blankets to people who signed up for a credit card. So I signed up, [...]

Mike of Fenway Views asks an excellent question: Why is it of critical importance to improve Maitland street? Especially when one considers the sorry state that the somewhat more critically important Beacon Street is in. Hell, if Beacon Street degenerates any further, nobody will even get to Maitland Street. UPDATE and CORRECTION: This is the [...]

Saturday’s epic clash between Notre Dame Fighting Irish and University of Southern California Trojans was an absolute masterpiece, probably the best college game I’ve ever seen. The effort from players and coaches, the play calling, the execution, everything was first rate. Like everybody else today, I’m hoping Pete Carroll and Charlie Wies will clash for [...]

The New England Patriots made the game closer than I thought they were going to be able. With a secondary that’s close to dead, a linebacker corp that can’t tackle, a defensive line that can’t make up for the weaknesses of the back eight, and a defense that can’t force a turnover to save its [...]

A bunch of Nazis didn’t march in Toldeo, Ohio, so hundreds of the city’s black residents attacked police, broke into stores, overturned vehicles and set fires. Some also attacked a white resident who has been complaining about gang actitivty in the neighborhood, but were chased away when he opened fire with a handgun. Here’s an [...]