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Boston Herald Reveals Identity Of Underage Sexual Assault Victim
From Thursday’s Boston Herald: Bully laments role in ‘sick’ sexual assault A Canadian prep-school punk yesterday apologized to the classmate he assaulted as an obscene videotaped “joke” during a Hub field trip, assuring him, “I used to be somewhat of a … Continue reading
Red Sox Nation? Really?
All Facebook just published 10 Little Known Facts About Boston Facebook Users (tip o’ the pixel to mediabistro). Among the fun facts to know and tell: In contrast to the more than 31 percent of Boston University [Facebook] users that … Continue reading
Sad State Of Affairs At Boston Herald
From Tuesday’s Boston Herald: School guard faces rape rap Cops say he had affair with 14-year-old A Lawrence school security officer and basketball coach had a yearlong illicit love affair with a teen girl at his school that unraveled after Salisbury … Continue reading
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Tagged 14-year-old, abuse, Boston Herald, illicit affair, statutory rape
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F.B.I.=Federal Bureau of Idiots
Sometimes you just gotta reprint – er, report (Fair Use-wise) – a newspaper piece in full. From Tuesday’s New York Times: F.B.I., Challenging Use of Seal, Gets Back a Primer on the Law The Federal Bureau of Investigation has taken on … Continue reading
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Tagged FBI seal, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Times, Wikipedia
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Articles The Hardworking Staff Didn’t Finish (pat. pending)
(With apologies to The Weekly Standard’s “Sentences We Didn’t Finish“) From Daily Beast diva Tina Brown: Why America Needed Chelsea’s Wedding Chelsea Clinton’s nuptials weren’t just a celebrity-free PR triumph. They were a happy throwback to the carefree 1990s. Celebrity-free PR … Continue reading
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Tagged Chelsea Clinton wedding, Daily Beast, Tina Brown, Weekly Standard
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New Word o’ the Day (pat. pending)
Here’s one the hardworking staff hasn’t come across before (via MediaPost): A suspected malvertiser — a group buying online display ads as a means of distributing malicious code – appears to be posing as a bona fide advertising agency representing … Continue reading
Free The Textbook 101
The cost of college textbooks is high on the radar screen of the Elite Mainstream Media lately, probably because Elite Mainstream Journalists have a lot of college-age kids. From Sunday’s New York Times: $200 Textbook vs. Free. You Do the … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Newspaper Town (John Kerry Yacht Edition)
Friday’s Boston Globe: Kerry says he always intended to pay tax WASHINGTON — Senator John F. Kerry yesterday acknowledged for the first time that he mishandled the political fallout from questions about taxes on his new $7 million yacht berthed … Continue reading
Maxine (Dirty?) Waters’ Boston Connection
First it was New York Congressman Charlie Rangel (D-How Many Rent-Stabilized Apartments Do You Have?). Now it’s California Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Can You Help My Husband Out?) in front of a House ethics committee. From a Saturday New York Times report: … Continue reading
Peggy Noodnik Strikes Again
From Peggy Noonan’s current Wall Street Journal column about Ronald Reagan’s 1980 co-opting of the John Birch Society (“Well, he said pleasantly, they said they support me, I didn’t say I support them”): He cared about reality, about the facts … Continue reading
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Tagged John Birch Society, Peggy Noonan, Ronald Reagan, Wall Street Journal
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