Archive for June, 2006

A reliable source tells me Dr. John Silber had lunch with an unidentified person at Petit Robert Bistro yesterday. Dr. Silber, a frequent guest at PRB, ordered the swordfish and praised the restaurant. There was an akward moment, however, when he asked the waitress when the new PRB in South End opens and the waiter [...]

The team’s cheerleaders are back from their swimsuit calendar shoot. Watch your favorite cheerleaders wrestle in the hotel swimming pool, play volleyball, backflip and otherwise get ready for the new season.

Haven’t we all been in some ho-hum town that claims to have “more restaurants per capita” than any other ho-hum town in America, or even the world? I heard that claim in Saskatoon in Saskatchewan in Canada and I heard it in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and I’m sure I’ve heard it said for other [...]

The Boston Red Sox announced late this evening that it has sold pitcher Jason Johnson for two small bags of low-fat chips and a can of Diet Coke to Boston Celtics, for whom he’ll work in a concession stand. The Celtics believe the acquisition can increase beer sales for the franchise by 13%, as nobody [...]

That wasn’t a draft. That was a ghost in a wedding dress, and I have a feeling she’s just getting started. Ghost Whisperer on CBS is probably not going to win me over to network television.

*Updated with more links to commentary on Mexico’s presidential election* Allan Wall has another interesting dispatch from Mexico on Vdare.com discussing the July 2 presidential election in Mexico. Mr. Wall is an immigration-restrictionist who rather likes Mexico, where he lives and works and is married to a Mexican. He does not care for the assumption [...]

When you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail, as the old saying goes. Perhaps now that we are rightfully concerned about terrorists, domestic and alien, everything looks like a terrorist group in the eyes of law enforcement officials. Like Boston Globe metro columnist Adrian Walker, I’m no at this point convinced that the sect/cell/fraternity [...]

Boston’s Mayor Tom Menino, the self-styled Urban Mechanic has banned utilities and contractors from digging up city streets since they do such a poor job restoring them. Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi thinks the mayor is missing something: Menino first earned a reputation as the dedicated urban mechanic who gets the streets paved and the [...]

My impressions from having watched bits and pieces of a handful of World Cup games: Team USA: Shame on you. Awful performances. Yes, there was a lot of guts and glory in the game against Italy, but it wouldn’t have hurt the Americans if they had interspersed the near-brawling with a few minutes of soccer [...]

Years ago, but probably not too many years ago, this situation what have resulted in an epice melee, but not anymore.