Today’s Globe features a boilerplate trend-tastic bit about Bostonians who live on boats. The piece speaks to Bostonians who live on boats, who complain about bills and sometimes tell funny stories, and cites some statistics which illustrate the trend as a growing one.
The author also has the good sense to know what to do with [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Boston Globe'
Globe Gets Nautical
February 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Media
Vennochi Savages Brown
January 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
This one hurts.
One can only assume a pouty press conference from the guy’s daughter will follow.
Comment of the Week
November 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Media, Politics
It comes in response to this Globe story about the escalating slap-fight between a governor feeling the heat of a reelection race and a legislature that will allow no crisis to spoil its seven-week winter boozecation: “Is Deval just now finding out what tremendous d-bags the legislature is comprised of?”
Tags:Boston Globe·Deval Patrick·Legislature·Politics as Bloodsport·Savagery
Astute Citizen Sees Through Secretive Leftist Agenda
October 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Media
Today’s Globe has a fine story about a big brokerage expanding into retail work. It’s something that I’m following at my day job as well.
However, the Globe version has something that mine doesn’t. And that is: An insane-o comment from some guy who sees that this is not, at all, a story about commercial real [...]
Tags:Banker and Tradesman·Boston Globe·Demagoguery·Real Estate
Big Brewers Make Like the Globe
August 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Beer, Business
Following in Morrissey Boulevard’s footsteps, A-B and MillerCoors decide that they’d like to combat flagging sales and eroding market share by, uh, jacking up prices.
Tags:Beer·Boston Globe
Way Back!
August 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Media
Tony Mazz hits Josh Beckett with the unkindest comparison one could ever level in this town: “The Yankees teed off against Josh Beckett as if he were John Wasdin.” Oof.
Tags:Boston Globe·Red Sox
Build, Baby, Build?
August 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Media, Politics
Yesterday’s Globe opus on Mayor Menino’s development record had its high and low points. This sidebar probably hit harder than the 55,000-word (guessing there) feature did. Maybe it’s the cynic in me, but at its best, the thing seemed to do a nice job of reiterating the broad outlines of what we already knew – [...]
Aloisi’s Destiny
August 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
In a rather hilarious interview with State House News last night, Deval Patrick’s Secretary of Obfuscation and Patronage, Jim Aloisi, calls the state GOP’s bid to get him fired “a political move” and “a political distraction.” This, from the guy who’d rather hand out golden parachutes than play in the sandbox with one of Mitt Romney’s [...]
Tags:Boston Globe·Demagoguery·Deval Patrick·MBTA·Politics as Bloodsport·State House News
Feds Are Racist Against Italians and Rabbis, Too!
July 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Media, Politics
Several weeks ago, Globe columnist/company car aficionado Adrian Walker complained that the mean nasty feds in Boston were giving absolutely no respect to alleged crooks Dianne Wilkerson and Chuck Turner because they’d cuffed the pair, which smelled funny, because the G-men were totally massaging Sal DiMasi’s feet at his indictment.
But look what’s happening down in [...]
Tags:Boston Globe·Crooks
A Paper for Nothing
July 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Media
Steve Syre does some easy math and figures that, once the New York Times Co. has absorbed $200 million in Globe pension liabilities, the profit the Times will reap from a Globe sale “might be next to nothing.”
Jay Fitzgerald correctly notes that that prospect makes those old cash-out estimates look “quaintly high.”
Tags:Boston Globe·Death of Newspapers·End-Times Finance·New York Times
