Today’s big Boston Globe feature in its on-going promotion of the zealots who supposedly have been living in a tree on Wachusett Mountain to prevent development of a 1,500 foot ski trail there, prompts one to wonder why the Globe doesn’t take and publish photos of them during the night while they are asleep in… Continue reading

Those photos of Jennifer Lopez, Venus Williams and an assortment of other scantily-clad women who feature the double-truck page running in today’s Boston Herald “Edge” section indicate Publisher Pat Purcell plans to transform his daily tabloid into a “girlie” publication of sorts. The competing Boston Globe won’t join the Herald’s sex ploy!

How about today’s full-page feature leading the Globe’s Living Arts Section which focuses on a self-styled Somerville “artist” who is waging a PR campaign against the SUV motor vehicle? Two things struck me about the story: 1. The artist has a lot of time and money as well as little to do these days. 2.… Continue reading

That big page-one tear-jerker the New York Times published today about the National Guardsman from California who “thought he was done with active military duty when he left the Marines for civilian life more than a decade ago and signed on with the National Guard a few years later” omits one major fact—the substantial amount… Continue reading

Meanwhile, in Saudi Arabia, what they’re really worried about are Barbie Dolls. Guess why.