(Cross-posted from Boston Daily)
You’re a state legislator. All you have to do to keep your job is get a couple hundred people to write their names on a piece of paper. Lately, that’s been an astoundingly tall task.
State Senator Dianne Wilkerson was last year’s cautionary tale. She failed to wring 300 good signatures out [...]
Entries from May 30th, 2008
The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
May 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
Tags:Boston City Council·Boston Magazine·Legislature·Mayor Menino
News, Uh, Breaks
May 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
Huge news for the Clinton campaign today. No, not that. That doesn’t help one bit. This does, though (fourth item). Reportedly.
In other highly relevant democracy news, Glenn Miller’s ghost has just endorsed Mike Gravel. This thing’s not over yet!
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New Issue, New Clips
May 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Media
It’s been quiet around these parts lately, thanks to a nightmarish deadline, mechanical woes of the automotive variety, and some crazy drama over at The Paper. A Sox series in Baltimore this weekend certainly won’t help propagate posts, either.
I have five free minutes now, though, and that’s more than enough to command you all to [...]
Tags:Boston Magazine·Housekeeping·Mayor Menino·self-referentialism
You Sexy Thing
May 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
Playboy Radio got a bunch of high-class Los Angeles area call girls together and asked them which of this great nation’s governors they might like to screw. Our own Deval Patrick came in sixth. First in our hearts, sixth in our pants. Congrats, governor.
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The Hill and the Hall Week in Review
May 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Politics
(Cross-posted from Boston Daily)
Under normal circumstances, any press aides who allowed their boss to be photographed – and videoed! – participating in a humiliating stunt like the one Gov. Deval Patrick engaged in this week would have their asses handed to them. Hard.
Yeah, we get it, Google is fun and quirky and the web [...]
Tags:Boston Magazine·Deval Patrick·Legislature·Mayor Menino·Sal DiMasi
An Audience with the Queen of the Hops
May 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Beer
New Beer Advocate clip online today. It’s a two-page interview with Carol Stoudt, the head of Stoudt’s Brewing Company and the country’s first female brewmaster.
Carol beats up on Wal-Mart-style cultural homogenization, explains her brewery’s evolution from German-influenced lagers to brawling, assertive ales, waxes poetic on the beauty and subtle complexity of the Pilsner, and admits [...]
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Mayor Likes It Modern
May 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Boston Mayor Tom Menino swung by the new Boylston Street Apple Store’s press preview today. He talked about technology, green buildings, groundwater, education, and beauty. He professed to own a Mac laptop, and said he listens to “music that I can understand the words to” on his iPod.
And while he was at it, he endorsed [...]
Deval: Still Enjoying Not Being Sal
May 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Media, Politics
We all know how the internet is ruining journalism. But the internet has done some good things, too. It has allowed journalists to harangue Congress while wearing slippers. It makes embarrassing data searchable anytime, from anywhere. It means no more trips to the library.
And, most importantly, the internet lets the rest of the populace see [...]
Robert Mugabe, Doctor of Something, Fights On
May 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Today’s Globe has a story about a state rep wanting to strip Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe of the honorary degree UMass awarded him back in 1986. This effort has been underway, in one form or another, for well over a year; the university’s board has resisted previous attempts to revoke the degree because it has [...]
Tags:self-referentialism
Internet Strikes Again!
May 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Media
The internet’s been pretty tough on journalism. It’s not just eviscerating the business model that keeps us all fed and clothed. No. It’s got to make the experience of watching unemployment skulk closer and closer as uncomfortable and unnerving as possible. For instance: Since the internet came along, journalists can’t get away with pulling fiction [...]
