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What the hell is wrong with Boston?


The “culture of fear” fomented by our current government and the media seems to have really taken hold in Boston.
In a scene reminiscent of the Cartoon Network bomb scare that paralyzed the Boston area in January, police shut down a strip mall yesterday in this small western suburb after employees at a Bank of America […]

Defeating Strippers and Ignoring Slavery


Rothenberg’s Shadows on High this week is a good one. Brian wonders aloud why our legislature makes time for such pressing things as gay adoption, the distance between patron and stripper, and Wexner Indie films while human trafficking and forced prostitution exists in the state.
Then again, if history is an indicator, we can just […]

Unintended Blogaquences


Hurley over at WMD (my eyes! my eyes!) attempts to make a point about Iraq but falls pretty short - of course. He compares recent outbreaks of crime in Philly with Iraq, sarcastically calling the city a “quagmire” and urging us to “get out of there”. I won’t bother to argue […]