Here are some staggeringly frightening numbers about you, America, via Portfolio.com’s Jeff Bercovici: The nation’s preeminent newspaper, the New York Times, has a lower approval rating than the president. Even with the awful war, stagflation, spying and the rest of it.
Just 24% of respondents to a recent Rasmussen study expressed a favorable opinion of the [...]
Entries from February 29th, 2008
The Times: Worse Than Bush
February 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Media
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
February 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted from Boston Daily)
The most talked-about man on Beacon Hill continued to be widely talked about this week, as news that Speaker Sal DiMasi has been playing golf with a decades-old friend while not playing golf with a guy with a horrific haircut sparked an ethics uproar. It’s the surest sign yet that the state [...]
Tags:Boston City Council·Boston Magazine·Casinos·Dan Bosley·Deval Patrick·Golf·Mayor Menino·Sal DiMasi
Blue Grbutt Revolution
February 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
This wormed its way into my inbox this morning, courtesy of a friend who’s a lot more in tune with the unique rhythms of the tubes than I.
It appears to be a discussion of bluegrass music written by someone for whom saying the word “ass” – even within the context of larger words that have [...]
Tags:Profanity?
Rockingest Internet Ever???
February 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I found myself at the BPL yesterday, and was in need of some communist wi-fi. The library was happy to oblige.
But not so fast! The city doesn’t give away the privilege of blazing through the internet at 11mbps and waiting for half an hour for Google Maps to load to just anybody. You’ve got to [...]
Two Things
February 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Media, Politics
Two observations: One day later, the Times’s John McCain maybe straight-talked his way into my pants story is the most blogged item on the paper’s website.
And for all the endless kvetching about the whole thing, this is the paper’s most emailed story right now. Sexy Johnny hasn’t even cracked the top ten.
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
February 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted from Boston Daily)
These are strange times for the state’s coastal legislators.
First, in November, they were subjected to an energy bill sneak attack that, unbeknownst to them, opened up their coastlines to unfettered wind farm development. They balked, as did the Senate, which had been pushing an oceans management bill authored by Senator Robert [...]
Tags:Boston Magazine·Casinos·Idle Speculation·Sal DiMasi·Vacations
All the Attendant Evils of a Bad Slum
February 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Historicalness
I spent most of yesterday in the BPL, dodging sleepy homeless people and researching a BoMag piece on Boylston Street’s weird place in the city’s architectural bureaucracy. Half of it is part of the Back Bay Architectural District, and subject to a litany of design and zoning structures; half isn’t. Unsightly newspaper boxes are banned [...]
Tags:Architecture·Boston City Council·Boston Magazine·Slums·Urban Renewal
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
February 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted from Boston Daily)
Governor Deval Patrick found out what it feels like to be governor last week, as Sal DiMasi’s House finally – finally – got to work advancing the governor’s agenda. It’s only been, what, thirteen months since the inauguration?
Patrick got to see his beloved $1 billion biotech bill emerge from committee. Here’s hoping [...]
Tags:Boston Magazine·Deval Patrick·Idle Speculation·John Rogers·Sal DiMasi
