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.

Friday’s big Boston Herald page-one photograph of Sen. John Kerry wiping a tear from his eye on the campaign trail yesterday was reminiscent of the act former President Clinton put on several years ago. Clinton was walking along briskly out of a funeral parlor after attending a public official’s wake when he saw a TV… Continue reading

I have written before about the tiresome Jonathan Franzen and his over-written cinder-block of a book, The Corrections. [No link; why should I encourage you?] If you can imagine someone even more self-absorbed and self-important, well, you might not be surprised to find it’s the woman who was living with him while he scrawled his… Continue reading