The Globe brings us one spot of bright news amidst the gloom of non-recovery with today’s report on the plummeting number of speeding tickets issued by Massachusetts’s tax farmers police departments. The lax enforcement of traffic laws in general, and in Boston in particular, has always been one of the more welcome features of the… [Read more…]
July 23, 2011
TX gov and 2012 frontrunner* Rick Perry sez, Our friends in New York six weeks ago passed a statute that said marriage can be between two people of the same sex. And you know what? That’s New York, and that’s their business, and that’s fine with me… That is their call. If you believe in… [Read more…]
July 23, 2011
Bostonians who gaze longingly at the NYC cocktail scene, with its Milk and Honeys, Death and Companys, and PDTs, need to get their eyeglasses checked, because for the second year in a row, a Boston team has won the mix-off at Tales of the Cocktail. Last year’s winner Drink was sporting enough to give a… [Read more…]
July 20, 2011
Far be it from me to deny the charms of a hand-written letter, if only to remind oneself of the fact that highly-educated people under the age of 25 or so nowadays have worse handwriting than was once expected of 5th graders. My own script is renowned for its boldly masculine flair, with elegant, sweeping… [Read more…]
July 17, 2011
I never thought I’d say it, but I finally found a reason to be glad for the Commonwealth’s infamous blue laws: they flabbergast trust-fund douchebags from New York and Miami. From Luke O’Neil’s article in this week’s Stuff: Technically, bottle service doesn’t exist here either, explains George Aboujaoude, owner of Bijou…. Aboujaoude says it’s all… [Read more…]
July 10, 2011
It is a very good rule to be suspicious of enthusiasm in general and enthusiasm about ideas in particular, which is why I, while being constitutionally inclined in their direction, regard the organized Skepticism movement as something of an exercise in autodefenestration. As the latest exhibit of what I’m talking about, c.f. the brouhaha over… [Read more…]
July 10, 2011
I detest video. But with both Facebook and Google releasing enhanced video-chat features, I fear the day draws near when the most trivial interactions online will require the use of a webcam. Like Facebook itself (and AOL before it), this represents a continued lowering of the bar for people to interact online, and that really… [Read more…]
February 8, 2010
Thomas Friedman writes, One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century. It… [Read more…]
January 20, 2010
Yes, Martha Coakley had two of the worst weeks a campaign could ask for, short of a bimbo eruption or federal indictment. The line is going to be that it’s all her fault: if only Mike “you’re screwed” Capuano had won the primary, Brown would still be an unknown state senator in Wrentham, and even… [Read more…]
January 18, 2010
Apropos Martha Coakley’s now-infamous rapemailer, I’ve heard several pundits say, ‘after that, even if she wins, she loses.’ Precisely which planet do these people call home? Al Franken won by much dirtier tactics, and his Senate career seems off to a perfectly normal start. The difference between a campaign and what one does in office… [Read more…]
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