Archive for February, 2006

I found these chants on a Swedish messageboard for soccer fans of the more harcorde variety, but they are actually from England, glorifying a scruffy, bearded player: He’s brave He’s never had a shave OUR CAVEMAN OUR CAVEMAN Captain Caveman What a f*cking brave man Captain caveman He’s our man everywhere we goooo EVERYWHERE WE [...]

Some kind of kalabalik at the world’s richest kolchoz today. Its commissar was found to be ideologically impure last year when he suggested that nature has made made man and woman not strictly equal. Just another day at Ha-Ha-Harvard.

Bryant Gumbel has caused an uproar in sports media with the following lines, delivered on his show on HBO, Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: “Finally, tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don’t like them and won’t watch them … Because they’re so trying, maybe over the next three weeks we should all [...]

Boston’s Chinese/Chinese-American bi-weekly newspaper Sampan reports from a presentation of Boston’s emergency evacuation plan, held by Glen Brenner, “an advisor to Mayor Thomas M. Menino” : Brenner, who apologized for forgetting to bring the maps and other visuals typically used in the presentation, said the idea for the plan originated during preparation for the 2004 [...]

Another day, another Boston Globe op-ed that slip-slides past immigration. Today it’s a Noah Berger from something called Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center who laments income inequality in the Bay State, where it apparently has increased over the past several years. No surprise there. It’s also no surprise that Berger can’t bring himself to saying [...]

Professor Media Critic Dan Kennedy doesn’t care much for the endless women-in-peril sagas that feed cable news shows. He concludes a post today on how small the audience for such stories really is with the following words: Anyone who’s watching Entwistle coverage rather than presumably more nutritious fare is doing so by choice. What would [...]

Ellen T. Murphy, healthcare consultant and former vice president of Lawrence General Hospital, spends a Boston Globe op-ed worrying about “safety net hospitals,” hospitals in poor urban areas with large of numbers of uninsured patients: They provide a vital safety net to the Commonwealth’s most vulnerable citizens — the working poor and uninsured. These hospitals [...]

…it’s hard for us to get worked up about art, they should bear in mind that we expect very little from our artists, and we get even less.

Here’s an interesting article from Toronto Star on how the cartoon crisis became just that. Some snippets: As early as October, Danish Islamists were lobbying Arab ambassadors, and Arab ambassadors lobbied Arab governments. “It was no big deal until the Islamic conference, when the OIC took a stance against it,” said Muhammad el-Sayed Said, deputy [...]

Christian, conservative-ish, homosexual blogger Dick Erixon calls out Tuve Skanberg, a Christian Democratic member of Sweden’s parliament, for the latter’s eagerness to form an alliance with Muslims to re-enact an anti-blasphemy law that was scrapped in 1970. Erixon has been a vocal defender of the right to publicly criticize the homosexual lifestyle, a right that [...]