I like (commercials about men with) big butts and I cannot lie
Okay, so I’ve been forced to watch this ad about a zillion times during sports events lately. Thing is, while it’s not funny to me any more, it still doesn’t bother me almost as much as the guys-being-crushed-by-giant-beercans-for-not-being-macho ads...
No, Prime Minister
The controversy over Barack Obama's admiring mention of former President Ronald Reagan thrived in recent days, fed and nurtured by Hillary Clinton and her allies. Clinton used her rival's comments about Reagan and the Republican Party to assert that he must...Nuevo Mundo: 27,000 Lost Children
The missing sense of urgency in the Springfield public schools has been restored now that the Finance Control Board has seized from the city's rubber-stamp School Committee the authority to negotiate another contract with Superintendent of Schools Joseph Burke or...Blog Anxiety II
Six years ago I wrote a column titled "Blog Anxiety," which was all about how bloggers make me nervous and jealous with their lightning-fast news cycles. I bemoaned my inability to commit words to public record without waiting for editorial oversight and for...E-Edition
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