Archive for January, 2006

Professional Media Critic Mark Jurkowitz, Dan Kennedy’s successor as media reporter for the Boston Phoenix, has finally unloaded a major piece on the woes of the Boston Globe. While much of Mr. Jurkowitz’s attention is focused on the arts and national news coverage, I found this gem quite interesting, on page four of the article: [...]

Swedish daily tabloid Aftonbladet writes that network television star Geena Davis was an exchange student in Sweden in 1973. While there she reportedly lived with Rune and Karin Sundelius in Sandviken, an industrial town in what us Southerners quite incorrectly refer to as Lapphelvetet. According to the Sundelius’, Davis promised to fly them to Hollywood [...]

Once again the legislators on Beacon Hill want to extend the lower, tax-subsidized in-state state college tuition rate to illegal aliens who live – illegally – in Massachusetts. The justification is that since we’ve already paid for their K-12 romp, we should also give them a 60% college ride. No thanks. Illegal aliens should be [...]

1) I’m not surprised by the double murder on Kelton Street in Allston, pretty much right across the border from safer than safe Brookline. Way too much drugs and too much riff-raff in Allston – Brighton for this not to happen. Writes the Herald: The execution-style murders of a New Hampshire teen and a Haitian [...]

For as long as I can remember, there has pretty much always been at least one beggar sitting outside Store24, shaking a cup – sometimes one that has been brazenly shoplifted from the store itself – and asking for some change “on your way out.” It must be quite a lucrative spot as many a [...]

It’s a problem throughout the nation: Landlords cramming single- or two family houses with illegal aliens. The Boston Herald manages to run an article about illegal housing without mentioning illegal aliens. But the truth is so obvious I suppose it oesn’t need to be mentioned. Now, all you affordable housing advocates, you do understand that [...]

The Boston Globe and the Boston Herald both went with “Perfect 10″ headlines after New England patriots demolished Jacksonville Jaguars, giving Pats’ coach Bill Belichick a 10-0 postseason record as head coach in New England. That scores them a perfect 10 on the headline lame-o-meter.

I told a friend the other day that I couldn’t decide whether I expected the New England Patriots to crush the Jacksonville Jaguars or whether I expected a nail-biter of a game. I ended up getting both. The first half of the first AFC Wild Card Game was close and hardfought, the second half was [...]

Blogger Chuck Holton was at Sago when the miner-miracle rumor started, and he has some thoughts on how the situation could have been better managed: Aside from the fiasco with a mine foreman breaking protocol to spread information that turned out to be false (the guy will have to live with the knowledge of the [...]

President George W. Bush has made Julie Myers a recess appointee boss of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Debbie Schlussel has more. Also check out this severely under-reported story that Schlussel also has covered.