Archive for May, 2009

A couple of months ago I quoted a local politician in Sweden recounting how government revenue projections are repeatedly revised downwards because of the terrible toll the recession in the United States is taking on the global economy’s export-driven participants. The local newspaper in my native city reports this weekend on another town that’s facing [...]

A picture of a Target Assets Protections tricycle personnel carrier at the Target store in Watertown. I don’t know whether it’s a souped up pimped Segway or some kind of electric vehicle. I have to say it’s more stylish than the plain vanilla segways that mall cops ride. Target wins – again.

some nitwit who copied passages because the idea of writing was more appealing than the writing itself. Udolpho.com on Ben Domenech, 3/26/2006 New York Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd (461) has gotten herself into a pinch by lifting a paragraph written by blogger Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo fame and using it in one [...]

Peacuddy’s Cafe & Bakery in Melrose – a rather pleasant town north of Boston – is a terrific little place to have a cup of coffee and something to eat (Peacuddy’s serves Rao’s so you know the coffee is good). They have great cookies, too.

Massachusetts instituted universal health care in 2006 which has led to longer wait times to see a doctor according to survey that Boston Globe reports on today. The promise of universal health care is that it will reduce cost by expanding preventative care to a larger share of population. Reality is of course different: “If [...]

New England Patriots tight end David Thomas is preparing for what is likely going to be his last training camp with the team. Hope springs eternal in the off season, as the Boston Globe’s Christopher L. Gasper reminds us: One advantage for Thomas is that for the first time since his rookie campaign he’s been [...]

Going to the ball game leaving work early sitting in a back up stuck on Storrow Drive Get honked at Get yelled at Get cut off price gouged Get blocked in Get ticketed I tell you, fans, it’s harder than it looks it’s a long way to Fenway Park when Boston Red Sox are home

Metro USA has been sold by its Swedish owner to a company called Seabay Media, which is headed by Metro’s former CEO, Pelle Tornberg (Törnberg in Swedish) who’s widely regarded as the newspapers founder. Metro’s American newspapers have a week-daily circulation of 590,000 and supposedly snag 1.2 million readers in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston [...]

A photograph of a sign in a Pottery Barn Kids store at Burlington Mall in Burlington, Massachusetts: Are they sure it’s “”their” space” and not “their “space”?” …as long as it isn’t a spelling bee Here’s a sign from a CVS store in Winchester in Massachusetts: A question mark would have been in order in [...]

It was only recently that the New England Patriots started using Twitter to communicate with the team’s fans but they are now fully embracing so-called micro-blogging as a way to communicate with the fans. Realpatriots is the team’s main account. PATRIOTSdotCOM is announces new material on the Patriots web site. PatriotPlace promotes the Patriot Place [...]