A Cry for Help

Living in South County, I am subjected to the usually boring “South County” section of the Projo. This past week though, with the threat of a big box development, there has been a really interesting series of articles about the citizens of Hopkinton standing up to their town planners and town council about the [...]

Go check out this picture from a Massachusetts church on Brian Hull’s site. Now go back and look at this picture. Remind me again which side of the same sex marriage debate is supposedly destroying the fabric of society?

In addition to my old site designs, I found some other cool things buried in my F:\ drive, including something my Prov Development friends might get a kick out of. Here’s what the Providence River may look like once the 195 span is gone (you’ll have to imagine the new bridge in the background, and [...]

By the time you read this, the Devil Rays and Yankasses will have officially inaugerated the 2004 baseball season. First pitch: 5:16am eastern standard time. Why so early? The game is in Japan.
The rest of the teams won’t get started in games that count until this Sunday, but I’ve decided that it’s very important [...]

Wow!
I was digging through my labyrinthine file folders, sifting through 3+ years of images and documents, when I stumbled upon all the old versions of this website, from the original design (and original 2 posts!) to the design I made for a website I put up for Emily which I subsequently stole for bil.com, to [...]

The Massachusetts legislature got back together again to see what they could do about amending the state constitution to ban gay marriage. Earlier today they came up with a compromise amendment that will begin the amendment process. It’s a pretty interesting proposal: “The revised version adopted Monday would ask voters to simultaneously ban gay marriage [...]

Name the top three newscasters you trust the most to give you the straight facts. Is Jon Stewart on your list? He’s on mine. That certainly says something about the times we live in, doesn’t it? Frank Rich has an article in today’s NY Times about how deeply involved the government is in [...]

The Red Sox start playing the games that count in a scant 9 days. It’s getting spring-y in New England, daylight savings time begins next weekend, and baseball starts the next day… how awesome is that?!
There’s not much going on in Spring Training, Trot Nixon’s out for a while, there’s not a lot of [...]

I get impatient sometimes when I hear about how we should stop subsidizing public transit or Amtrak. I don’t think I have ever heard of highway contruction being referred to as “subidizing personal transit.” A NY Times editorial, and that post on the general ridiculousness about pills and obesity from the other day, got [...]

In case you hadn’t heard, a highschool teacher in Florida euthanized a couple baby rabbits the other day more or less in front of her class. Em had sent me a link, and Chuck and James are talking about it on their blogs.
The reaction I wanted to have was something along the lines of “our [...]

Remember that Digital Bulletin I mentioned yesterday? I was just making a cute comment on how sensational some of the first reports can be. It turns out, though, that this was the first hints at an awful and tragic story.
A by all accounts stable and successful guy (who, however, lived with a 20 year old [...]

When I was in High School, once or twice a week I would get on the PA system and lead the school in the Pledge of Allegiance. Despite not being especially religious, I always said every word, under god, indivisible, and so on without giving it much thought. There’s a case in front of [...]