Archive for December, 2008

The missus and I went to Masa Restaurant on Cambridge Road in Woburn (across the parking lot from Whole Foods) the other night. The restaurant is located in the space that short lived Bear Rock Cafe used to be. Unlike Bear Rock, Masa offers its patrons something that’s quite a bit different from the usual [...]

305 million people plus!

So that’s this is what it feels like when your team fails to make the playoffs. The New England Patriots took care of their business in their frantic late season push for a playoff spot but so did the other teams who ere in the mix. Baltimore Ravens pasted the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Miami [...]

Massachusetts population was 6,497,967 on July 1 according to the latest population estimate by the United States Census Bureau. The population has increased 2.34% since 2000, the ninth slowest increase (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing). The new estimates also bring with them upwards estimates for the population in previous years. For example, the original [...]

This Boston Globe article on the president of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank Eric Rosengren is beyond absurd. Rosengren’s been pushing policies to prop up the artificial pay-check destroying run-up in prices in 2006 and 2007 and on top of that he comes across as a run of the mill bullshitter[*]: Since his appointment as [...]

I’m putting all links, observations and commentary regarding the Madoff mess in this post. It started off as a throwaway political one-liner but has since grown, initially because of the Madoff debacle’s impact on Boston. While I very rarely put a post in more than one category I have added it to not only Politics, [...]

New England Patriots concluded their second West Coast road trip of the 2008 season by pounding the Oakland Raiders 49-26. The game was never close but the fireworks was pretty entertaining at times, including touchdowns on three straight plays (not counting point after touchdown kicks). Patriots runningback LaMont Jordan ran for 97 yard son 12 [...]

That “all the rational people” supported President-elect Barack Obama in the 2008 election was one of Jack Beatty’s main points at the post-election forum I attended last month. The specific people he was referring to were hedge fund managers, that is, people like Bernard Madoff and his customers. [Saturday morning update:Today's Boston Globe has an [...]

The United States Census Bureau has released data that does the kind of cross-source referencing that the Bureau usually warns again. The table below shows the school districts in Massachusetts ranked by poverty rate (as calculated by me, dividing the number of students who live in households below the federal poverty line by the total [...]

Amy Sullivan’s now infamous line – “[t]he jab was based on an outdated caricature of Chicago” – is the kind of ideologically motivated feigned ignorance that permeates Time and Newsweek magazines and made me stop reading them years ago.