Archive for April, 2008

Boston’s second free daily newspaper, BostonNow (or perhaps it is, or was, Boston Now) has folded. It launched last year, backed by an Icelandic company, with the nominally rather ambitious goal of marrying and blending web and printed content in one extensible orgasm of professional and amateur journalism. In reality it became an almost indescribably [...]

Last night I watched some of the Texas Longhorns’ spring game on the Fox College Sports channel. It wasn’t uplifting. Longhorns run a variation of that awful West Virginia offense which is basically little more than pickup basketball with a little bit of blocking and tackling thrown in for the heck of it. Almost every [...]

Senator Hillary Clinton’s blatant lie that she had to contend with sniper fire or the threat of sniper fire when she landed Tusla in Bosnia in 1996 could be seen as an example of her rotten, devilish, say-anything, no-good soul. That’s not how I think of the Senator, and I that’s not what I think [...]

Fred Kirsch mentioned today on PFW In Progress that the official website of the New England Patriots, Patriots.com, suffered a slight decline in traffic from March 2007 to March 2008, the first time ever traffic to the site declined year-over-year. I suppose there’s perhaps a bit of fatigue on the margin among Patriots fans after [...]