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October 2011
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Strapped for cash, Topeka, Kansas considers... →
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theweekmagazine:
The Topeka City Council will decide next week whether to essentially legalize domestic violence in the Kansas capital, in a budgetary game of chicken with Shawnee County, which encompasses Topeka. The fight started when Shawnee District Attorney Chad Taylor, facing a 10 percent budget cut for next year, announced Sept. 8 that his office would no longer...
September 2011
12 posts
"Weird" is a social construct.
WSJ: Friendly's Preparing Bankruptcy Filing →
“Friendly Ice Cream Corp., which employs roughly 10,000 people and operates more than 500 restaurants known for sundaes and hamburgers, could seek protection from creditors as soon as next week, the people said. The Wilbraham, Mass.-based company would then try to sell itself through a bankruptcy auction, the people said.”
Given the paramount quality of their food and Fribble,...
Boston Herald: President’s illegal uncle giggles... →
OH NO HE DIDN’T. Also, he should have applied for legal uncleship. No amnesty for uncles!
So. We have the "best healthcare in the world,"... →
A study supported by the Commonwealth Fund, which specializes in comparisons of health care across country “measures preventable deaths, which is a pretty good proxy for the quality of a nation’s health care system. And how did the U.S. rank among 16 high-income, industrialized nations? Last. Yes, you read that right. Last.”
Global Warming: Why Americans Are In Denial (AP) →
A good, brief history of how we got where we are, and where we’re not, on globe warming.
Police say homeless men prevented arson →
Homeless people are good people too.
New England gifts for Afghan woman?
So a wonderfully kind Afghan woman in one of my classes gave me an Afghan scarf and a raisin and nut mix from back home. What kind of New England gifts should I give in return? I’m thinking local apples, which is something I love. By the way, a Dunkin’ Donuts gift card is out. Not doing that.
Poll: 21% of Americans think they'll be a... →
“The United States leads the world in millionaires, more than 5.2 million of them in 2010, or nearly one in every 20 households, according to The Boston Consulting Group’s latest annual global wealth report. Great Britain had 570,000 millionaires, or about one in every 45 households. Australia had 133,000 or about one in every 60 households, but that’s an increase of 35,000 over...
Wedding dress, pumpkin ice cream
Yesterday, my fiance bought her wedding dress! Today, I’m hoping that Trader Joe’s has their great seasonal pumpkin ice cream. I’ll buy a veil too, Joe, if you make sure I get a quart!
Humans
The only thing that makes me feel better about the world and its human race is great individuals, more of which I meet every week. Here’s to people. Here’s to hope.
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July 2011
2 posts
Bostonian Towing can't read (or doesn't care to)
On July 17, through my AAA membership, Bostonian Towing was dispatched to tow my broken-down car from Boston to Amesbury, Mass. They were 25 minutes late. Then they towed the car to the wrong address.
I gave AAA and the tow truck driver the address 18 Chestnut St. I stayed in Boston and did not ride with the driver. Bostonian Towing towed my car to 18 Washington St., Amesbury, which is obviously...
June 2011
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“To me, art is like pooping. It’s something you have to do, but it’s also very...”
– Tessa Hulls, artist interviewed for 100 Interviews (via gabydunn)
March 2011
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"This Emotional Life" series from PBS - a must... →
Click through for a clip. An incredible and well-researched documentary, from what I’ve seen so far.
Cabbie fails in swindling us - victory for tipsy...
An hour ago my finance and I took a cab from Copley Square to our apartment near Joshua Tree off Comm Ave in Allston.
The cabbie was silent until the end of our ride, when it was clear that my credit card was not working on his machine.
The law of the City of Boston, this law student knows (don’t mean to be an arrogant jerk!), is that cabs can’t drive without a working credit card...
February 2011
1 post
100 Interviews: #1: SARINA DUVALL - "Someone who... →
100interviews:
I have never fundamentally disagreed with anyone I like more than Sarina Duvall.
As soon as she picks me up in her burgundy Mitsubishi from the Pt. Pleasant Beach, New Jersey train station, I can hardly get a word in edge-wise she’s so animated and friendly and candid, her tone touched…
January 2011
5 posts
one of my friends told me that it's smart to go to...
molls:
i made you this mix to listen to while you’re earning your purse burgers.
“My kin came home bloodied from Vicksburg in the Civil War. We Americans are not...”
– Tom Ashbrook, host of WBUR’s On Point
Boston Globe: Tom White, one of Boston’s greatest... →
Mr. White, who made his fortune building J.F. White Contracting into one of Boston’s biggest companies, said that after making sure his family was taken care of financially, he set out to die as close to penniless as possible.
“I’m sorry I don’t have more money to give away,’’ he told the Globe in 2004.
December 2010
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Via Jezebel: GIFs for every occasion! Just... →
Gallup poll: Americans disfavor evolution, believe... →
Four in 10 Americans, slightly fewer today than in years past, believe God created humans in their present form about 10,000 years ago. Thirty-eight percent believe God guided a process by which humans developed over millions of years from less advanced life forms, while 16%, up slightly from years past, believe humans developed over millions of years, without God’s involvement.
Sanders fights tax deal with marathon speech -... →
Independant US Senator Bernie Sanders, 79, spoke for 8.5 hours in opposition of the Obama-Republican tax plan yesterday, which he called “Robin Hood in reverse.” If you agree with Bernie or not, this was awesome, and a sign of what non-Republicans and non-Democrats can do to be heard.
July 2010
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Kind sir, Lindsey Graham does not care for your...
Via Gawker:
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham inexplicably landed a 4,466-word profile (“Lindsey Graham, This Year’s Maverick”) in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, a good publication if you’re too poor for The Atlantic or a socialist. Graham, a Republican, has been in the Senate since 2003 and has never married.
Let’s pick up the Times Magazine story on the...
AP: New Mass. law OKs Sunday morning alcohol sales →
The new law, which was part of the $27.6 billion budget Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signed Wednesday, allows restaurants to start serving alcohol at 10 a.m. on Sundays. The previous law did not allow alcohol to be served until noon … The law takes effect immediately.
But if you’re an early riser who wants a 9 a.m. mimosa beside your omelet? The state of Massachusetts says no....
Three possible Kagan successors for solicitor...
Although it probably won’t get nearly as much press as the Supreme Court vacancy, who fills the vacancy of the solicitor general position has a huge impact on our country. The holder of that position represents the government before the Supreme Court, including, in recent years, cases high court litigation regarding the PATRIOT Act, treatment of foreign detainees, and the extent of...
WatchWhile traveling on the cheap in Europe, I experienced budget airline Ryanair’s no-frills business model. A dirt-cheap ticket gets you from A to B - and nothing mroe. Not a checked bag, refreshments, nor the right to change your flight plans without a heavy fee. Now, Ryanair has proposed charging £1 ($1.51) to use the bathroom and adding £5 “vertical seats” to the back of their...
"Hitchens has cancer? I like that"
Vanity Fair contributing editor Christopher Hitchens has been diagnosed with cancer, the Washington Post reports. Hitchens is a foremost atheist activist, and with a book titled “God is not Great,” has gained many critics on the theistic right-wing. He is also maligned by the dovish left for his interventionist, neoconservative foreign policy (though Hitchens says he is “not any...
June 2010
2 posts
Pierce on his way out? Goodbye, perhaps, to the...
Paul Pierce notified the Celtics yesterday he plans to opt out of his contract and become an unrestricted free agent. Pierce, 32, is young for baseball and old for football, and it’s unclear how many more top-notch basketball seasons the eight-time All Star forward has left.
Boston Globe columnist Tony Massarotti wrote today that the two parties parting ways might be a blessing in disguise...
Final Massachusetts budget nixes illegal...
This is a few days old, but broke on a Friday, so perhaps you didn’t see it. I didn’t:
The conference committee eliminated provisions for a hot line for citizens to report employment of illegal immigrants; authorization of a federal agreement to allow the state to enforce federal immigration laws; and a specific law to prohibit illegal immigrants from getting in-state tuition rates...