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Comment on: Dennis man admits to killing puppy - Metro - The Boston Globe
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Comment on: Brown, Warren, and a miserable start - Metro - The Boston Globe
Thank you for letting your moral outrage overcome your political sense. We have to choose between someone who messed up in an otherwise admirable political record, and someone who is determinedly wobb more »
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Comment on: Mitt Romney promises worldâs strongest military - Nation - The Boston Globe
And who's going to pay for it, Mitt? Your 1% friends? more »
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Comment on: Feathers ruffled at cemetery - Metro - The Boston Globe
Are we talking about an endangered species here? more »
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Comment on: US, Europe canât thrive by austerity alone - Editorials - The Boston Globe
No doubt something like "growth" is needed in addition to austerity, as we have economies organized entirely around ever-increasing production and consumption. But wouldn't it be nice if some economis more »
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Comment on: Filings add to questions on Warrenâs ethnic claims - Metro - The Boston Globe
Harvard, as everyone has always known, wouldn't hesitate to call someone with a hangnail "disabled" if it would let them hire whom they want and get minority credits for it. So don't elect Harvard to more »
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Comment on: More than a shave and a haircut - - Boston.com
More than "any previous point in history" is an awfully strong claim. What about the courtiers of Louis XIV? Anyway, maybe some of the difference is that men are doing more of their own vanity rather more »
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Comment on: Todd English sued for $1 million over unpaid rent - Business - The Boston Globe
I believe Martha Stewart's cell is available. more »
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Comment on: Bake sales: Not so fattening, after all - Editorials - The Boston Globe
Cute article, but misleading headline. more »
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Comment on: Elizabeth Warren fights the âout of touchâ charge - Opinion - The Boston Globe
You've got to give this election points for irony. That an opponent of Scott Brown should have to content with a charge of being out of touch! Wow. more »
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Comment on: A victory for ignorance - Editorials - The Boston Globe
Except that he isn't prepared to lead us all, but only the top 1% of us. more »
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So this is how we're going to end up with Romney and Brown? If this is her worst infraction, she's better than most. How about something about the actual issues facing the state and nation? more »
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Comment on: Mitt Romney mum on how to regulate big banks - Nation - The Boston Globe
Romney doesn't have to have an alternative plan: he's a Republican. He'll support bailing out the big guys, and he'll preach abstinence and patriotism to the falling little guys who have no net. That' more »
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I hope this passes, but I fear for the safety of the doctors who are willing to write the prescriptions. more »
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The overuse of exclamation points is part of the general exaggeration, aggressiveness, and extremism of our culture. We exaggerate our claims, our confidence, our accusations, our opinions. From the o more »
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Comment on: Citizens Bank to pay $137.5m to settle overdraft suit - Business - The Boston Globe
This is a token punishment. This is fraud, and the people who invented it and approved it should be in jail. more »
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Comment on: 40% in survey support a state bailout for MBTA - Metro - The Boston Globe
Plausible claim. Do you have any actual figures? more »
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Comment on: 40% in survey support a state bailout for MBTA - Metro - The Boston Globe
Rather than a "bailout," how about a sustainable long-term plan for making the T a usable service for the largest part of the population? This will require ongoing governmental support, just as the hi more »
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Comment on: Stopped for being black - Metro - The Boston Globe
I think the phrase the officer and presumptive gentleman was looking for should have been: "I'm sorry to have inconvenienced you, sir; have a nice day." more »
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Comment on: Overflowing compassion - Metro - The Boston Globe
It's a tribute to people's capacity for generosity when they can attach the face of a real individual person to a problem. Now I could only wish that people would realize that they need to have a gove more »
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Comment on: Is driving a better deal for commuters? - Metro - The Boston Globe
This is why you have to have govt subsidies for mass transit, just to balance the fact that the govt builds highways, which do not "pay for themselves" either. more »
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Comment on: MBTA proposes 23% fare hike, limited service cuts - Metro - The Boston Globe
I don't use the T, so I don't have a direct interest in whether the fares go up. But I would prefer to keep fares low and pay a little more in taxes, so that the T could be improved enough so that I w more »
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Comment on: âWinterâ of 2012: March gladness - Editorials - The Boston Globe
Wow, how noncommittal can you get? more »
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Comment on: Boston hits another record-setter at 71 degrees - Metro - The Boston Globe
"Spell of unusually warm weather." Is that what we want to call it now? Wow. The collusion of the media in the collective denial of global climate change is beyond irresponsibility. more »
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Comment on: T belt-tightening would hurt health, study says - Metro - The Boston Globe
We expect the govt to build roads and maintain them (at least, we used to expect them to be maintained!), and we vaguely reckon that means we have to pay for it -- pardon the expression -- "collective more »
I hope this man doesn't have children.