As longtime readers of Boston Daily know, we enjoy the Herald for its lurid writing and love of capturing pervs (not to mention its superior day-after coverage of the Celtics run for the championship).

While the tabloid generally has the liveliest writing of our two papers, the Globe occasionally shows a glimmer of life. Lately, the broadsheet is cornering the market on gross-out food inspection reports. And we like it.

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As has been well documented in the past month, we’ve got some issues with the columnists in this town. After John Gonzalez took them to task for their schmaltzy pieces, Kevin Cullen showed some signs of life when he fought back, which we applauded.

Apparently, Cullen didn’t hear our praise, probably because he doesn’t quite understand the internet. But that’s just the beginning of the ways in which our city’s columnists don’t comprehend what the Celtics victory means to Boston.

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Much like sprouting daffodils, the first sighting of the Duck Tours signals the return of spring in Boston. We’ve got a love-hate relationship with the brightly colored vehicles. (We love championship parades, but hate fanny pack-clad midwestern tourists.)

Last summer, Jason Feifer reported on the feud between the old-school amphibious vehicles and a new competitor that dubbed itself Super Duck Tours. After a brief (and awkward) transition, the company renamed itself Super Duck Excursions after a judge ruled the term “duck tour” wasn’t generic, and that Super Duck was misleading tourists.

Yesterday, an appeals judge overturned that ruling.

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It’s a beautiful morning in downtown Boston. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and your 2008 NBA Champion Boston Celtics are preparing to board the official vehicle of our city’s conquering heroes for our second victory parade in eight months. (Hope you convinced your boss that you’re actually sick.)

And, again, the city would like to remind you to behave yourselves. (Are you paying attention, Gary Zerola?)

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When you get off the highway and head for my apartment, you pass what must be the sketchiest adult bookstore in the entire Boston area. There is a red and white sign advertising books and movies, and no matter what time it is, someone a little creepy-looking is walking through the door.

I’m grateful that the advent of the internet has made it so the majority of porn connoisseurs can get their fix in the privacy of their own homes, cutting down on the skeevy guy population in my neighborhood. But internet pornography has a dark side. Just ask Michael Fiola.

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Early this morning, a Boston Daily tipster informed us that the Globe had poached powerful journo Casey Ross from the Herald. Soon after, the report surfaced on Adam Reilly’s blog. We called Herald editor Kevin Convey to get confirmation and find out who will cover State House politics now that Ross is gone.

“It’s true,” Convey said, sounding remarkably upbeat for a guy who just lost one of his best writers. “He’s going to the Globe. We’ll certainly miss Casey. But we’re happy to say that, effective immediately, we’re promoting Hillary Chabot to State House Bureau Chief.”

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We here at Boston Daily believe in hoping for the best, preparing for the worst, and taking what comes along. We pay our renter’s insurance on time, just in case any of our neighbors decide to hoard gasoline with disastrous results. We use the restroom before heading out on the T, because you never know when the Red Line will get stuck on the crumbling Longfellow Bridge.

It seems many local politicians also follow this philosophy. The Herald reports that several power players are saving their pennies, just in case Gov. Deval Patrick heads for Washington.

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Like all good New Englanders, we love to read about public servants who get fired for gross incompetence. This morning, the Globe ran a story with the headline “Officials move to fire dispatcher accused of falling asleep on job.”

Horace White, a dispatcher for the city of Boston, was suspended after he dozed off and didn’t respond to emergency officials’ pleas for equipment at the scene of a fatal accident. He had also been suspended for one day back in March when he fell asleep while on the clock. That looks pretty bad, right?

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Nearly a week after the Celtics beat Detroit, the NBA Finals will get underway at the Garden tonight. While the prospect of watching the Green beat LA! is exciting enough, we’re really glad things are getting started so it will put an end to the loosely Celtics-related stories in our daily papers.

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This morning, the Hillary Clinton Campaign Death Watch started in earnest. Headlines, both locally and around the country, screamed that Barack Obama had clinched the nomination after yesterday’s final primary contests and a slew of superdelegates stepped forward to back Obama.

Clinton told supporters last night that she wouldn’t make any decisions soon. But the media eagerly stepped forward to write the obituary for her campaign, so it’s only a matter of time before she officially ends it. (We think.)

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