A Cry for Help

There’s nothing quite like returning to Rhode Island from the Deep South to provide me with concrete examples of why neither side of the major-party divide is particularly scrupulous these days.
First a little background for out-of-staters and other usually uninterested parties: Steve Laffey is the Republican Mayor of Cranston, RI’s third (I think) largest city. [...]

In what seems to be becoming “support your small theater week,” Matt, Em and I saw Kill Bill Vol. 2 last night at the Cable Car. Tonight is Trot night, so we (and our wallets) are taking a break from movie going.
Anyway, the Kill Bill movies were really weird to me. I love Tarantino, but [...]

Sure, Nomar came back to the Sox last week, giving our team a nice boost. Today, however, the season begins for Christopher Trotman Nixon. Trot is by far my favorite player on the Boston team, we’ve been watching him since his days in Pawtucket, and if you watch a good amount of Sox games [...]

Em and I finally saw Super Size Me at the Avon (support your small theaters!) last night, which is good because it closes tomorrow. The documentary that asks “what happens if you eat nothing but McDonalds three meals a day for a month?” was excellent, and not exactly what I expected, which is refreshing. James [...]

I’m re-reading George Orwell’s 1984 and I swear, I’m not even 10 pages into it and I am spooked at how many analogies we can find in modern government and politics. Scary. I didn’t have to read this in high school, but my informal survey of my friends finds that they all did, so I [...]

As my internet drought continued into its, like, millionth day, I broke down and popped a recently arrived AOL trial disk into the cdrom and signed up for a free 50 days of evil. Like probably everyone who had internet access back in the twentieth century, I started with AOL (version 3!) and learned its [...]

How nice that on Flag Day the Supreme Court dodges the “Under God” flap (pun, oh yes, intended) by kicking atheist Michael Newdow’s case out of court on a technicality. The Supremes decided that Daddy Newdow, with only partial custody of his child on whose behalf he brought his suit to remove the words [...]

Hello everone (including any Justice Department guests!) I’m here at the Warwick Public Library taking advantage of their free wireless internet access. It seems they’ve blocked every port except the web browsing one (understandable, if inconvenient), so I can’t check my email spam, but that’s ok. I’m going to get caught up on [...]

Wow, that was cool.
Tonight, Em and I went to the first screening of a Red Sox game at the Providence Place movie theater. First, can we all take a minute to appreciate how ridiculous Sox fans are? I’m guessing, but I bet no other baseball team could even consider charging $5 to show a game [...]

I was way too young to have any inkling of an opinion about Reagan, so I have very little to say on the man.
However, the obit-u-thon on cable news is making me think a lot about how awful, on all fronts, George W. Bush is as a president. Obviously we’re seeing nothing but the good [...]

Still no internet. I miss you guys, and I’m so much closer to home, too. I don’t even have dial-up, it’s like my home computer just became an expensive typewriter.
Anyway, what’s up? How are we all doing? I’m fine. So Em and I went to the movies:
We saw Day After Tomorrow, which wasn’t nearly [...]

I have no internet at home. It’s hell. Anyways…
I’m late on this, but if anyone got a dead tree edition of the ProJo yesterday, go look at the picture on the front page accompanying the Whole Foods story. The article is about how Whole Foods is making a commitment to get 10% of their energy [...]