Whether NPR or FOX, the news reporters’ currency is fair, objective
reporting… except when it comes to the weather. As the New Yorker’s
“Dawn Patrol” (August 8/15, no longer online) pointed out, the weather
report is really for entertainment and reassurance value, not its
factual content. Newspapers and TV stations have ombudsmen and some
semblance of professional commitment to minimize [...]
Pedaling
home from work yesterday, I came upon this fairground ride set up in
the middle of Boston Common. According to the City of Boston’s official
press release, “The AeroBalloon will give Boston’s residents and
visitors a bird’s-eye
view of the city while our partnership will help support the programs
offered through the Fund for Parks and Recreation.”
and kerryandmitt comerunning from [...]
Two recent NY Times opinion pieces (by Bob Herbert and Maureen Dowd)
have castigated President Bush for “cavorting” around on his ranch in
Texas while American troops are shot at in Iraq.
You have to wonder whether reality ever comes knocking on George W.
Bush’s door. If it did, would the president with the unsettling
demeanor of a boy king [...]
Our state rep, Alice Wolf,
came by the Putnam Gardens Community Center across the street from our
apartment yesterday to chat it up with her constituents and serve up
some mean ice cream (donated by Toscanini’s). She was accompanied by her interns and staff (who are fortunately much better with their digital cameras than I!).
It was a great [...]
Maybe it’s not as important as the elections in Iraq, or even Somerville, but this vote has consequences: will we be forced to read Red and Rover or Pardon My Planet
with breakfast for the next aeon of our lives? Since the choice is
between cheerful mediocrity and gloomy confusion, respectively, I cast
my vote for R&R.
Now
it also [...]
