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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Whitey Bulger Captured Edition)
At 1 AM on Thursday, the Boston Herald website has this: Police say Whitey Bulger arrested in Santa Monica LOS ANGELES — James “Whitey” Bulger, a notorious Boston gangster on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list for his alleged role … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, FBI, Santa Monica, Whitey Bulger
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Un(L)abashed Admiration For Wounded Warriors
The Weekly Standard’s Matt Labash is proudly loutish in many ways (see anything from his Standard piece Down with Facebook! to his regular Ask Matt Labash columns for the Daily Caller), but, man, can he write. Exhibit Umpteen: His latest … Continue reading
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Tagged Detroit, Fallujah, Haiti, Hurricane Katrina, Matt Labash, Warriors and Quiet Waters, Weekly Standard
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Menino Still Dopey About Niketown T-Shirts
So it wasn’t bad enough Boston Mayor Tom Menino lowered himself to subterranean depths in nuking Niketown for its Newbury Street window display, “which boasts T-shirts emblazoned with pill bottles and sporting the words ‘Get High’ and ‘Dope’ — along … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Herald, Dictator for Life, Dot Joyce, Nike, Niketown, t-shirts, Tom Menino
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Whitey Bulger/Catherine Greig FBI Photo Bakeoff
The FBI has launched another “Where’s Whitey” campaign, this time “focusing not on Mr. Bulger but on his girlfriend, Catherine Elizabeth Greig,” according to the Wall Street Journal: [Yesterday] the agency [began] airing public-service announcements in 14 U.S. cities during shows … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Catherine Greig, FBI, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Where's Whitey
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Classic Menino: High Dudgeon Over Small Stuff
America’s smallest big-city mayor Tom Menino is at it again, this time going after Niketown t-shirts. From today’s Boston Herald: Mayor Thomas M. Menino blasts Nike over dopey t-shirts Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino is calling on Niketown to yank a disturbing … Continue reading
Hitch-86: Losing An Indelible Voice
The inimitable Christopher Hitchens in the June edition of Vanity Fair: Unspoken Truths I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid. —T. … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot, Vanity Fair
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In Pledge Rumpus, NBC = Network Be Chicken
Say, the NBC network really kicked the hornet’s nest when it opened its U.S. Open broadcast on Sunday with this video, eh? Something was missing, though, as the Washington Post helpfully reported: In a feature that preceded its coverage of … Continue reading
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Tagged Daily News, NBC, Pledge of Allegiance, U.S.Open, Washington Post, Washington Times
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Boston Herald: Put Another Speaker On The Barbie
Could Massachusetts rack up a felonious fourpeat? From today’s Boston Herald: With three predecessors now felons, House Speaker Robert DeLeo starts this week under a cloud of scrutiny as questions linger from Salvatore DiMasi’s trial and investigators sort through a … Continue reading
Jacoby: ‘Don’t Know Much About History’ . . . Of National History Tests
Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby’s latest piece joins the legion of those lamenting the historical illiteracy of America’s youth: WHEN THE Department of Education last week released the results of the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress — “the Nation’s Report Card’’ — the … Continue reading
Campaign Outsider Critics Corner (Man Ray/Lee Miller Edition)
Well the Missus and I went up to the Peabody Essex Museum to take in the Man Ray | Lee Miller, Partners in Surrealism exhibit and it was swell. From the PEM website: Man Ray | Lee Miller, Partners in Surrealism From … Continue reading
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