Presidential conventions used to be the thing of high political theater, combining drama, intrigue and the future of the free nation. Movers and shakers from across the nation would gather in mid-summer to ... well, move and shake — in a political sense, that is; give or take a Kennedy.
Scott Brown is the new American idol. The more America sees him, the more they like him. There's even talk of putting him on the national ticket in 2012. I hope he's enjoying it. His long-term political future remains to be seen, but here's a short-term prediction: He'll never be as popular as he is right now.
Thought, scribbles and stolen text-message jokes regarding Super Bowl XXVLXVIXCSI, which ended in a satisfying win for an iconic American city that has endured unfathomable hardships.
Out of billions of Yahoo! searches, Valentine’s Day searches have been in the top 450 for more than a week.
The American Institute of Food Distribution claims that Super Bowl Sunday is second only to Thanksgiving in terms of food consumption.
Each word cost almost $1,000.
The price society pays for truths withheld will be much greater.
If I lived in Frank Capra's Bedford Falls, I'd be thinking about taking my money out of Old Man Potter's bank and putting it into the Bailey Brothers Building and Loan. Instead, I'm thinking about taking my money out of Bank of America and putting it into a local bank that's more likely to put it to work in my community.
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I always get excited about the Olympics; I find them extraordinarily comfortable and reassuring in that Weather Channel sort of way, pleasingly static yet always on. But that was before I watched parts of my first ever Winter X Games, and now I am officially amending my stance: the Winter X Games are the greatest sporting event in the galaxy and make the Olympics look like recess at fat camp.
Today’s students aren’t just spending a couple of hours with their technology. According to the study, they’re spending more and more time online and on the phone each year, and statistics seem to be showing that their grades are suffering from that increased activity.
Pat Robertson is a funny guy. Not funny-ha ha. Funny in a head-scratching sort of way. Like, what are we to make of his recent comments that Haiti brought that earthquake on itself by making a pact with the devil more than 200 years ago? This is the kind of thing you expect to hear from the guy on the next barstool who’s on his third double.
If you page back through human history, you'll find a pretty short list of reasons that people have had to run for long distances, which are all basically some variation of "I was being chased by this thing with blood in its teeth and meat-tearing claws, and what's with all the questions anyway, Glunk?"
It's hard to explain something like this to out-of-state folks steeped in the national media's stereotype of Massachusetts as lockstep liberals united in Kennedy adulation. It's impossible to explain in less than 140 characters, though people have been trying all week, especially for those who hope their abbreviated version of what happened will help them win the next battle.
