Back when we were in high school, the most controversial t-shirt that featured H.A. Rey’s cartoon monkey Curious George was the one where the little guy passes out after sniffing ether.
But, a bar owner in Georgia has lowered the discourse even further by placing the monkey’s image on a shirt that reads “Obama in ‘08.” Now the Boston-based publisher that owns the rights to the series of books is considering suing the redneck businessman.
While it says that “no defender of free expression…can easily support censorship,” the Globe nevertheless rants that GTA IV is “particularly insidious.”
Lock up your children! Video games will be their ruin! Also, hip-hop music is loud and scary!
I suppose it’s too much to ask for the paper of record to do a little original thinking. Or, I dunno, some research.
Kids like to explore and test the boundaries of their physical world. This is why parents with children under the age of five generally install gates at the top of their stairs and covers on wall sockets. But every once in a while, a child bests these attempts to check the Darwinian process with varying results.
As a kid, a deer sighting was always an unexpected treat. Even though I grew up in a rural town, the animals were notoriously skittish around people. But now when I go home, I spy deer all the time. Whether I’m nearly hitting them with my car or watching them graze in a field, they don’t seem particularly bothered by humans anymore.
Maybe it’s because my neighbors are disobeying wildlife officials and feeding them.
I don’t travel by airplane very often. With high gas prices and a weak dollar, I’d have to open another credit card to finance a trip, which wouldn’t be likely since all available credit has been locked down due to the foreclosure crisis. But I just returned from a long weekend in Fort Myers that was financed by my tax return, and the only thing worse than going from 85-degree weather to snow is dealing with the security people at Logan Airport.
During the past few days, I’ve noticed this item floating around on Boston.com and being torn to bits on Universal Hub. Since I’ve been busy with my career (interviewing Irish brewers takes a girl’s time) I didn’t take the time to completely read the article until now.
And I’m so glad I did. Now I’m informed enough to know that my fellow career girls and I are way behind in our quest to find a man before our ovaries quit on us.
Where to begin? If you missed it — and the only way you could have is if you don’t read the morning papers or you’ve recently suffered acid burns to your eyes — the Herald has quite an interesting cover today.
At first, I thought the picture of Tom Finneran — the former Massachusetts speaker of the house turned WRKO morning show host — was nothing more than lazy, childish paparazzi fun. That is, I thought the Herald caught him picking his nose. Oh, if only it were so. Instead, Boston Daily’s favorite ball busters captured Finneran crying while begging to keep his legal career afloat during a disbarment hearing.
OK, the Herald loves to bash Finneran, and he was sobbing, so that’s pretty much a lay-up for those guys. But what I found laughably ugly and mindless, even for the Herald, was the tease to a sidebar on page 6: “Can Guys Cry Too?”
We were hoping this wasn’t going to happen. Unfortunately, it did. Yesterday, the ever-popular Massachusetts Turnpike Authority voted 3-to-2 to increase tolls at four locations.
Remember when the current governor said he was going to shut down the MTA?
Here at Boston Daily, we’re big fans of pointing out the absurdist humor inherent in all political campaigns. I, in particular, am especially fond of it.
It’s no surprise, then, that Matt Taibbi is one of my favorite writers. His book on the 2004 presidential campaign, cleverly titled Spanking the Donkey, is a brilliant piece of writing. The guy is vicious and talented, and Rolling Stone is lucky to have him.
To that end, I draw your attention to Taibbi’s latest target: Mitt Romney. (more…)
You have to help me with something. Because I’m confused. I swear it was just a few weeks ago that Gov. Deval Patrick was entertaining the idea of folding the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, the MBTA, and other agencies into one super bureaucracy that would oversee all matters relating to bridges, roads, and public transportation.
But, a bar owner in Georgia has lowered the discourse even further by placing the monkey’s image on a shirt that reads “Obama in ‘08.” Now the Boston-based publisher that owns the rights to the series of books is considering suing the 
I’d like to say I’m surprised by today’s Globe editorial — 
Kids like to explore and test the boundaries of their physical world. This is why parents with children under the age of five generally install gates at the top of their stairs and covers on wall sockets. But every once in a while, a child bests these attempts to check the Darwinian process with varying results.
As a kid, a deer sighting was always an unexpected treat. Even though I grew up in a rural town, the animals were notoriously skittish around people. But now when I go home, I spy deer all the time. Whether I’m nearly hitting them with my car or watching them graze in a field, they don’t seem particularly bothered by humans anymore.
I don’t travel by airplane very often. With high gas prices and a weak dollar, I’d have to open another credit card to finance a trip, which wouldn’t be likely since all available credit has been locked down due to the foreclosure crisis. But I just returned from a long weekend in Fort Myers that was financed by my tax return, and the only thing worse than going from 85-degree weather to snow is dealing with the security people at Logan Airport.
During the past few days, I’ve noticed this item floating around on 
Where to begin? If you missed it — and the only way you could have is if you don’t read the morning papers or you’ve recently suffered acid burns to your eyes — the Herald has quite an interesting cover today.
Crap.