Posts Tagged ‘news’

I realized last night that there is a good reason I stopped watching the nightly “news”. It’s no longer about what important happenings are in the area, but rather how horrible life is for people since someone is out to get them. The three stories that I remember from last night: Three seniors are complaining […]

Monday, March 14th, 2005 at 08:01 | 0 comments
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With snow in the near term forecast again, I am reminded of two different stories that made the news during the past blizzard, where two feet of snow was dumped on Boston. (Living north of the Massachusetts border, we got around a foot of the fluffy white stuff.) The first was people complaining that some […]

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005 at 21:33 | 0 comments
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In another unsubstantiated news report (which seem to be all the rage these days) I remember hearing that the US House of Representatives canned a bill that would have exempted liability for not-for-profit athletic organizations except in the case of _gross_ negligence. Isn’t that the way it should be now? Or did everyone sign that […]

Monday, September 20th, 2004 at 21:53 | 0 comments
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On the radio this evening, the talk show host was bemoaning the fact that the evening news shows maps of the United States and colors each state blue or red, depending on how that state (as a whole) is projected to vote. His point was that there are many areas in larger states that don’t […]

Monday, August 30th, 2004 at 23:42 | 0 comments
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A month or so ago a [local radio station][wbz] interviewed a soldier stationed in Iraq from the local area who spoke of his family: > I keep them in my heart, but I keep them out of my mind, because I miss the hell out of them. It is a very poignant statement. At least […]

Friday, June 11th, 2004 at 07:41 | 0 comments
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The estimates for the disruption to the city of Boston during the Democratic National Convention have just been updated again: * A small road called the “Central Artery” can’t be all that important, and will be shut down at 4pm each evening, about an hour into rush hour and three hours before the convention is […]

Tuesday, May 11th, 2004 at 23:17 | 0 comments
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According to a radio report, Princeton is going to start limiting the number of “A” grades that can be awarded per class–to 35%. The student body president is up in arms because apparently this would be a drop from the current 46%. I’m guessing that statistics is not a requirement for any of these college […]

Saturday, May 1st, 2004 at 14:22 | 0 comments
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The Massachusetts legislature has juts approved an constitutional amendment which will discriminate against a section of the population. Jim Crowe, the leader of the convention stated earlier in the day that this amendment will provide homosexuals all of the rights, benefits and privileges of marriage which leads me to one of two conclusions: * He […]

Monday, March 29th, 2004 at 18:24 | 0 comments
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According to a report yesterday, [Breyers][1] is recalling some cartons of [Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream][2]–because they *may* contain peanuts, which are not on the label. Who reads the nutritional information but skips the title of the product? When talking about the wages lost to corporate america in [NCAA][3] Men’s Basketball Tournament pools, one news […]

Friday, March 19th, 2004 at 05:41 | 0 comments
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Nobody in particular one wrote, “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.” Is that why the Democratic National Convention is pondering closing Boston’s North Station to Subway Traffic? According to reports there are 25,000 commuters that pass though the station daily. Closing the station (which is under the Fleet […]

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004 at 18:55 | 0 comments
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