Archive for October, 2005

”Our resources are obviously not unlimited,” [assistant chief patrol agent for Customs and Border Protection John] Pfeifer said. ”But we work with what they give us, and I think we do a really good job of monitoring and enforcing the laws on the border.” There are an estimated 250,000 illegal aliens in Massachuetts alone. Yvonne [...]

The gigantic product-placement show for the product known as Donald “The Donald” Trump, The Apprentice, had a great first season, stumbled badly in its second, then recovered somewhat in its third. The jury – well, my jury – is still out on this season, the fourth, but so far it’s almost all upside. This week’s [...]

Virginia Cavaliers has suspended offensive tackle Brad Butler for one game for his vicious chop block on Boston College defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka. Good.

I was not a big fan of Boston College’s move from the Big East to the Atlantic Coast Conference. It was an upgrade, to be sure: BC used to have no shot at winning their conference and now it has no shot at winning a significantly better conference. Nonetheless, the move seemed a bit tawdry [...]

This is news: An unknown triggerman gunned down a player in the brutal Roxbury street gang Orchard Park Trailblazers yesterday and shot two of the con’s friends in an apparent home invasion seeking the wheelchair-bound victim’s drug stash, sources told the Herald. Jason Collins, 31, a longtime gangbanger who is in a wheelchair from a [...]

“You’re not a real baseball fan.” That’s what my baseball loving wife told me during the last week of the regular season, when I disputed there being a play-off feeling in the air. She is, of course, right. I am not a real baseball fan. While I do enjoy following the Red Sox – the [...]

Discovery Channel has a fun little docutainment show called Firehouse USA: Boston starring Ladder 26 and Engine 37 on Huntington Avenue. While those two fine units aren’t primary responders in my neighborhood, I’ve snapped some pictures of them in multi-alarm fires. Here, for example, are some pictures of Ladder 26 from the 2003 fire on [...]

OK, he doesn’t, but Debbie Schlussel thinks that maybe he should. After all, Philip Michael Thomas of Miami Vice fame is more qualified for the job as big dog at Immigration and Customs Enforcement than the hapless Julie Myers. But perhaps I’m just being sexist and eliteist, as Harriet Miers defenders would say.