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The Church of Scientology is repressing this video on YouTube with a copyright claim, but you can see it at Gawker. It's over 9 minutes, but watch the whole thing....
Posted on January 18, 2008 3:59 AM
Age is a very fluid thing. On one's birthday, one is legally a year older, but on that day one only ages a single day, not a whole year. Last...
Posted on January 19, 2006 11:00 AM
One of the biggest lines of attack against Judge Samuel Alito was his memberhip in the Concerned Alumni of Princeton, which was denounced as sexist, racist, and just plain rotten....
Posted on January 17, 2006 6:00 AM
Massachusetts finds itself on the horns of a rather tricky dilemma. Last September, the legislature voted to earmark $25 million to help house, feed, and take care of Hurricane Katrina...
Posted on January 16, 2006 2:00 PM
Especially on days when they give me so many good stories to blog about. Today's one of those days, and there are so many, I'm gonna stick a bunch in...
Posted on January 12, 2006 2:00 PM
Last week, I wrote about the Massachusetts' Attorney General (and would-be governor), who apparently intervened into a car crash investigation that killed two teenage sisters, and injured their friend. At...
Posted on January 11, 2006 2:00 PM
The good people of Boston can rest easily this day, as Brian Schwab and his pit bull, Gabrielle, are back in custody. The two were caught yesterday. In a stunning...
Posted on January 11, 2006 9:00 AM
Last October, I wrote about a homeless man who had allegedly taken his unmuzzled pit bull into a busy subway station in Boston. Police were called, and Mr. Brian Schwab...
Posted on January 10, 2006 8:00 AM
Earlier today, I wrote about this story in the Boston Herald. At that point, I focused on the irony of a gang member and twice-acquitted alleged murdere who fled Boston...
Posted on January 9, 2006 2:00 PM
The Massachusetts Department of Corrections' Director of Diversity is a Muslim chaplain named Ibrahim Rahim. He also moonlights as an "awake counselor" at a state-funded teen shelter. And it is...
Posted on January 5, 2006 2:00 PM
Massachusetts has quite a bit of justifiable pride in its role in American independence. Many key events in the Revolutionary War occurred in the Bay State, including the "shot heard...
Posted on January 4, 2006 2:00 PM
Robert Eckert of Yarmouth, Massachusetts is a marked man. He's got a lengthy history of encounters with the police, numerous arrests and cour appearances. He can't drive down the road...
Posted on January 2, 2006 2:00 PM
One of the dumbest things one can do, I have discovered, is to trust a Massachusetts politician to keep their word. When the Bay State raised its income tax from...
Posted on January 2, 2006 11:00 AM
For the second year in a row, US Census data shows that Massachusetts is losing people. Well, not really losing them -- it's not like someone put them down just...
Posted on December 23, 2005 5:00 AM
A while ago, Boston's mayor, Thomas "Mumbles" Menino, addressed his city's homicide rate (71 so far this year; two more, and it'll be a perfect 1 every 5 days) by...
Posted on December 19, 2005 2:00 PM
Boston, Massachusetts is one of the few remaining two-newspaper cities. The big boy is the Boston Globe, a renowned fish-wrapper that's owned by the New York Times. The other paper...
Posted on December 19, 2005 8:00 AM
Ah, Massachusetts. Whenever I feel the need for something to get outraged over, laugh about, or feel good about living in New Hampshire, they always provide me with what I...
Posted on December 18, 2005 3:30 PM
With Wednesday's announcement that Mitt Romney would not be running for governor of Massachusetts, the state's Democratic machine kicked into high gear. One candidate immediately stepped up his attacks on...
Posted on December 16, 2005 8:00 AM
Boston, like most major cities, has a bit of a grafitti problem. It's an eyesore, for one, and it tends to lead to other forms of unpleasantness. So the city...
Posted on December 15, 2005 5:30 AM
Last year, the Massachusetts legislature thought it would be just nifty if they offered free dental care to poor pregnant women and new mothers. It was part of the whole...
Posted on December 14, 2005 2:00 PM
Massachusetts election laws are governed by a rather complicated set of laws. One of those is that organizations are limited to how much they can give a candidate, but they...
Posted on December 11, 2005 11:00 AM
When a company does something despicable, there are a lot of ways to address it. If one happens to be, say, mayor of a major city, one's options are even...
Posted on December 2, 2005 2:00 PM
There is a sign of sanity in Massachusetts this day. Or, at least, proof that the learned lawmakers are not utterly deaf. Back in 2002, the state was in a...
Posted on December 2, 2005 11:00 AM
John Kerry says that his loss in the election of November 2004 was because of events that took place in September 2001. In other words, he lost the race more...
Posted on December 2, 2005 5:30 AM
Some people are just blessed with gifts. Imagine being a respected judge, with a secure six-figure job for life and more time off than you know what to do with....
Posted on November 29, 2005 5:30 AM
The city of Boston, Massachusetts is looking at yet another record year for murders and shootings. This is despite the city and state having some of the toughest gun control...
Posted on November 25, 2005 11:00 AM
Earlier this week, a lawsuit against the city of Boston was resolved. A couple injured in a car crash were suing the city for pain and suffering. They wanted $7,000,...
Posted on November 23, 2005 3:00 PM
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. The day when people traditionally spend time with their families and other loved ones, a brief respite from such concerns as work. Most businesses are closed, and...
Posted on November 23, 2005 11:00 AM
Last week WRKO's John DePetro (now my favorite talk show host) had "Illegal Thursday," where he had two illegal aliens who would like to attend Massachusetts state-run colleges at the...
Posted on November 14, 2005 2:00 PM
A group of anti-war organizations in Massachusetts are pushing a petition around the state. If they get enough signatures, next November the voters in Massachusetts will vote on whether or...
Posted on November 13, 2005 11:00 AM
In the latest dust-up over whether illegal aliens should be granted in-state tuition to state-run colleges in Massachusetts, the Boston Redevelopment Authority is weighing in. In their learned opinion, granting...
Posted on November 13, 2005 7:00 AM
As a response to a rise in gun violence in Boston recently (a fact officials frantically tried to keep quiet before last Tuesday's election), Mayor Thomas "Mumbles" Menino is calling...
Posted on November 11, 2005 3:00 PM
If there's one constant in life beyond death and taxes, it's that politics in Massachusetts is never boring. Next year there's going to be a race for governor in Massachusetts....
Posted on November 2, 2005 5:00 PM
I've had my share of fun at Lawrence, Massachusetts' expense. I've called it "the armpit of the Bay State," among other things. Every now and then, though, I hear something...
Posted on October 30, 2005 11:00 AM
For several reasons (some of them quite good), I don't drink at all. I'm a complete teetotaler. None of those issues are moral ones, but I've never had any patience...
Posted on October 30, 2005 7:00 AM
Yesterday, a miracle happened in Massachusetts. Governor Mitt Romney signed a new drunk-driving bill into law, toughening the penalties and removing some of the roadblocks that had been in place...
Posted on October 29, 2005 6:15 AM
Massachusetts, like many other states, is having a bit of a problem with Oxycontin. There are a lot of Oxy addicts around, and many pharmacies have had to post signs...
Posted on October 27, 2005 2:00 PM
There's good news and bad news out of Massachusetts this morning. Yesterday I mentioned that a bunch of illegal aliens held a rally at the State House to demand in-state...
Posted on October 26, 2005 2:00 PM
As I've said before, one of Boston's great strengths is it's one of the few two-newspaper cities left in this country. With the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald continuing...
Posted on October 25, 2005 5:30 AM
From both the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe comes this heart-warming story. It seems Ted Kennedy was out along the beach at the Kennedy Compound over the weekend when...
Posted on October 17, 2005 5:30 AM
The police in Somerville, Massachusetts recently arrested a guy they'd been looking for for some time now. There's been a rash of graffiti around the city, and it's had quite...
Posted on October 16, 2005 7:41 AM
In my posting on gay marriage yesterday, a few commenters questioned the sincerity of my belief in gay marriage, saying that subsuming it to public opinion gave me an "easy...
Posted on October 7, 2005 4:00 PM
...is right here. A car thief was chased down and caught by police officers on bicycles. ...
Posted on October 6, 2005 8:00 AM
Traffic was tied up in knots for a few hours yesterday in Methuen, Massachusetts from a rather nasty traffic accident on Interstate 495 South. I haven't found any accounts online,...
Posted on October 5, 2005 2:00 PM
With unemployment at quite manageable levels, it seems that most people who want a job can find one. It might not be their dream job or their career choice, but...
Posted on October 3, 2005 11:00 AM
On the very same day Tom DeLay was indicted for campaign-finance charges, so too was a Massachusetts State Senator sued by the state Attorney General over similar matters. Senator Dianne...
Posted on September 29, 2005 2:00 PM
There's a quote from "Alice In Wonderland" where Alice says that sometimes she believes as many as six impossible things before breakfast. In that vein, I find that I can...
Posted on September 28, 2005 11:00 AM
Saturdays are supposed to be slow news days. It must be a full moon, though, because I find myself with a full slate of Massachusetts lunacy. First up, in the...
Posted on September 24, 2005 4:00 PM
I've often discussed the huge philosophical differences between my own New Hampshire and Massachusetts, that persistent reminder of just how things could be worse, just to our south. But it's...
Posted on September 19, 2005 10:00 AM
I've been following the case of Joseph Druce, the Massachusetts man who killed convicted pedophile and defrocked Catholic priest John Geoghan while the two were in prison. Druce is now...
Posted on September 18, 2005 6:30 AM
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He died in a auto accident late last night. If not for Kiel's arrest for shipping cough medicine two years ago, I would most likely not even remember him. RIP....
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It's a tragedy that still eerily lingers within the entertainment industry. And six months after his tragic death, Heath Ledger's parents are getting ready to celebrate his role in "The...
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There are no plans for a rumoured big-screen version of Friends, film studio Warner Bros has told the BBC. Since the success of the Sex and the City movie,...
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She defeated her sister Serena for her seventh career grand slam title. WIMBLEDON, England - Venus Williams beat sister Serena 7-5, 6-4 Saturday for her fifth Wimbledon title and...
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Government's role regulating free speech needs to be as limited as possible. The freedom allowed under the 1st Amendment isn't always attractive, yet to limit free expression is always the worst possible option.
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Certainly all right thinking persons regret the death of anyone. And best wishes to anyone in the Helms family need to be extended at this sorrowful time for them. However as a lawmaker, Helms was one of the very worst...
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Christopher Hitchens, a writer for Vanity Fair magazine, underwent waterboarding to experience it for himself firsthand. What more can be added to the debate over U.S. interrogation methods, and whether waterboarding is torture? Try firsthand experience. The author undergoes the...
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Police say a South Florida woman stole a couple's cat to get them to return her dog. Linda Urioste's black Labrador was recently picked up by animal control officers...
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Here come the moving vans. After 41 years in Seattle, the Sonics are moving to Oklahoma City. The City of Seattle settled its Key Arena lease dispute with the Sonics...
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Peter Cook testified that he and Brinkley used pornography "to get the mood going." He also acknowledged spending about $3,000 a month on pornographic Web sites in 2005. Alexa...
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