Yesterday, I’m standing outside the 21st Amendment, and I see these two mid-level bureaucrat guys walking up the street.
One looks over at the Fill-A-Buster, laughs, and points. “Be careful what you say around here,” he says. “They’re listening!”
Entries from January 31st, 2009
They’re Listening!
January 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Guy Buys Mall (With Organs?)
January 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Business
It’s not that bad. Yet. But here’s a fun (?) little story about just how f’d our cute little economy is right now.
Simon Property Group, the giant mall owner that isn’t going out of business next week, just sold some wreck of a mall in Cincinnati for under $20 a square foot. The city’s a [...]
Pot? Kettle???
January 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Media, Politics
In which maniacal cokehead/embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich talks about dignity and fraud and constitutional duty and ethics and gimmicks with Geraldo — who, in turn, calls Blago “tacky” and a “wreck.” Geraldo!
Also, Roland Burris is a “historic figure.” (He knows.)
Tags:Demagoguery·Thievery
Holes in the TARP
January 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Business
The Journal ran today with news (sub. req., or via Reuters) that $148 in bailout money hasn’t been able to restart lending at thirteen of the country’s biggest banks. And Bloomberg says banks without federal money are lending more than banks on the dole. Maybe that other $350 billion could loosen things up?
Alert Banker and [...]
Mayoral Race Odds and Ends
January 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
So, that further analysis promised yesterday never materialized. Add an afternoon of Ray plus Rondo plus SCAL, mix in the Penalty Box, and you’ve got no bloggingses.
So here’s a couple things to keep in mind this morning.
First off, it goes without saying that, since Kevin McCrea is no longer unopposed, that endorsement of his unopposed candidacy [...]
Flaherty Makes it Official
January 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Maybe all we had to do was ask.
This morning, Michael Flaherty sent out an email officially announcing that he’s in the mayor’s race — “Running for mayor, together,” is how he puts it. Here’s his YouTube announcement. I’m off to the Celts game; more later.
Tags:Mayoral Race
Therefore, There is no Substitute
January 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Historicalness, Politics
So how does the Honorable Hizzoner, Mayor Tom Menino, defend himself from these barbarians laying siege to his kinda-noisy but still lofty fifth floor perch? I suggest starting with something like this.
From the Google/LIFE image archives, here’s some irrefutable logic dispensed during one of James Michael Curley’s 37 runs for mayor:
Somebody for Mayor
January 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
After wondering out loud whether the press should start referring to Kevin McCrea as Boston’s mayoral frontrunner, by default, David Bernstein has ratcheted up the pressure on Michael Flaherty, Sam Yoon, and Hizzoner. He’s giving the three men seventeen days to officially jump into the mayor’s race. If they don’t comply, the Phoenix, internet edition, [...]
Familiarity on Frank
January 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Media
Reilly said it best - being a journalist means not having to admit someone else got there first. Not ever.
Thus, both the Globe and Herald run with interviews today in which Barney Frank defends the feds’ bailout of troubled OneUnited Bank, which he helped push forward, thanks to his selective framing of the TARP legislation in [...]
