Thinking of taking your sweetie out for dinner and movie this Friday night? Looking for a babysitter? Show us your papers first, please. Per State Senator Doug LaMalfa (R, North-Central California), the legislators have detected a serious flaw in domestic employment of babysitters, and have jumped into action: How will parents react when they find [...]
The intersection of non-falsifiable theory, insanity, and reality can be summed up in one word: Unexpectedly.
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….
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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