Archive for October, 2006

I’ve visited Philadelphia only a couple of times and I didn’t quite manage to slog my way through Ed Rendell’s tome on how he saved the city from the combined efforts of Huns, Mongols, and Vandals, so I shan’t pass too much judgement on the city, other than to say that for all of Boston’s [...]

Former Boston Herald sports columnist Michael Gee has a message for Boston Globe’s metro columnist Brian McGrory: Fuck you, Brian, you arrogant, pretentious jackass! I guess I’m also a pretentious arrogant jackass because I agree with Mr. McGrory in this specific instance, but I’ll live with it.

A new study reveals that young Finland-Swedes (ie. ethnic Swedes of Finnish nationality) in Finland’s capital Helsinki* outdrink their Finnish counterpart. 22% of Finland-Swedes in ages 14-17 get intoxicated at least once a month, compared to 18% of Finns of the same age. If you’re into recycling, just follow a Swede and you’ll soon find [...]

Noah Millman has some interesting thoughts on the debate between Damon Linker and Ross Douthat over the role of religion in American life in the near and not so near future. Specifically, Mr. Millman wonders whether Mr. Linker‘s book “The Thecons” is at heart an anti-Catholic book.

Sweden’s minister for integration and equality, Nyamko Sabuni of the Liberal Party, has put an end to government funding of Sweden’s Center Against Racism, a laughable institute that, among other ridiculous things, criticized an ice cream maker for selling an ice cream called Nogger. It’s not a lot of money, less than a million bucks, [...]

There was a brief brawl after the game between Holy Cross and Dartmouth last Saturday. Apparently the Dartmouth players were upset after the victorious Crusaders celebrated on the home team’s logo (an appalling behavior that college football should put an end to). Dartmouth’s players retaliated by attacking Holy Cross during the handshake line up. Disgraceful [...]

Northeastern University has quite a treasure in Andrew Sum, director of the school’s Center for Labor Market Studies. Here’s an op-ed in the Boston Globe that he co-wrote with associate director Paul E. Harrington on the effect of illegal mass immigration on America’s labor markets: The overall effects of new immigrant inflows from 2000 to [...]

They’re tearing down the crummy office building at One Davis Square in Davis Square in Somerville. Reminds me of the video for Accept’s “Balls to the Wall.” Sign of victory… SIGN OF VICTOREEE! Eh-hum. Here are a couple of pictures of One Davis Square going down:

The highlight of Bill Belichick’s press conference today was a discussion on goal-line offense and how to deploy one’s weapons in and near the end zone. Q: For a quarterback to be successful down in the red zone, does accuracy become even more important? BB: Yes, accuracy and quick decisions. That’s what it is. Yes. [...]

The past couple of days several of my websites went bonkers, tossing up ugly “Invalid query” messages on otherwise blank pages. Not a pretty sight (though one spared readers of Internet128). What happened was that my host upgraded its PHP installment to a version that doesn’t support the old and, really, long-deprecated way of calling [...]