While the feedback I got from my earlier question about canceling our subscription to the Globe was largely negative (here’s a sample from Universal Hub: “If you enjoy reading the paper, keep your subscription. A newspaper dropped on your front stoop is a wonderful thing to wake up to each morning. That and coffee of [...]
A few days ago I came back from a rare early-morning run and noticed an old car slowly easing its way up our street, drive-by style. The man was clearly lost. He was also delivering the Boston Globe.
That’s yet another reason to cancel our subscription to the Globe: the horrible environmental impact of the delivery [...]
Published today in the Boston Globe:
I was among the young Christians who traveled to Park Street Church last month to hear Jim Wallis’s call for social justice (”A New Generation Awakens,” March 12), and I can testify that a generational shift is indeed underway within American Christianity.
In [...]
Dan Payne’s analysis of the Presidential race in today’s Boston Globe illustrates why he was a bad fit for the Deval Patrick campaign, which he left soon before Deval blew the lid off the 2006 Democratic gubernatorial primaries. Payne repeatedly cites, while also chastising himself for citing, poll numbers without any serious analysis of the [...]
White homeowners afraid of a black family moving into their neighborhoods often encourage the would-be seller to pull the home off the market. “I’m not racist,” they explain, “but other people are. And all of our home prices will suffer.”
These homeowners are perpetuating bigotry, and so are voters who won’t cast their ballots for a [...]
Physicists understand that observation can change the thing being studied. Perhaps observer effect partially explains the pollsters’ poor predictions (”Stunned by N.H., pollsters regroup to seek answers,” Jan 10). Maybe the very act of publishing the polls changed the vote. If voters were truly undecided to the last minute, as many appeared to be, they’d [...]
Stephen Colbert practices satire, but I suspect his dalliance with Maureen Dowd in today’s guest op-ed piece is only sarcastically ironic. Indeed, his subtitle, “I am an op-ed columnist (and so can you!)” points out the essential problem of op-ed writing: anyone can do it, and someone somewhere in the blogosphere is faster, wittier, and [...]
It’s bad enough that daily comic strips like Doonesbury and Mallard Fillmore run two weeks behind the political times. Reading them is like watching the Daily Show on a malfunctioning Tivo, except that the jokes are even staler than the news. But Globe columnists like Jeff Jacoby turn irrelevance into an art form. A good [...]
Dear Boston Globe:
I voted for it (like there was a choice), but Red and Rover is gone, and good riddance. Inauthentic fan letters notwithstanding, the strip is nothing more than a marketing ploy, fine-tuned to hit two notes (baby boomers and their children) in cynically calibrated harmony.
The strip is set in the 1950s, featuring tin [...]
Back in college I used to write the student paper frequently and got published more than a few times. ‘Course in the Real World, it’s a spot harder getting a letter published (especially when those letters involve the comics pages) so it was pretty exciting getting my response to an Op-Ed on Thursday in printed [...]
