Monthly Archives: October 2003

The Dowbrigade has discovered that although busses and subways in Boston run much diminished schedules on Sundays, with meticulous planning and split-second timing it is possible to get from Malden to the tennis courts in under an hour, even on … Continue reading →

An interesting post last week from Dana Blankenhorn, questioning the preponderance of political pontificating in the blogosphere.  He points out that the majority of Blogstreet’s 100 Most Influential Blogs are about – Politics. Dana makes a number of astute points … Continue reading →

The People’s Republic of Cambridge has thoughtfully passed yet another law to protect us from ourselves, who, as any true progessive knows, are our own worst enemies. One of the first communities in the nation to pass a total ban … Continue reading →

Last week I got one of those phone calls every parent dreads. Actually, there are a number of phone calls that parents dread.  This one was somewhere on the seriousness scale between "send money" and "send lawyers, guns and money". … Continue reading →

What a gorgeous day for a protest! I can picture it now….the human sea of righteous indignation, the thin blue line of the scared and secretly sympathetic forces of State Security.  My eyes are welling up just thinking about it.  … Continue reading →

Don’t you hate people who have a quotation ready for any situation or emotion to make themselves sound sophisticated, intelligent and erudite? I have tried to accumulate a corpus of killer quotes, but with a memory closely resembling swiss cheese, … Continue reading →

Finally – Someone cares enough to violate the intellectual property rights of people who do what I do for a living – lecture to BU students! It’s amazing how finding yourself on the other side of the bar can affect … Continue reading →

So just two weeks ago, we all get an email from the Boston University Chancellor’s office, announcing that the university has declared November 17th an Official University Holiday, all classes cancelled, all offices closed, in honor of the coronation of … Continue reading →

from the Boston Globe Its retirement never even merited a notice on the drive-through menu, much less a memorial service with Homer Simpson-esque eulogies. But over the summer, when customers were distracted by Coffee Coolattas and maple-frosted scones and such, … Continue reading →

Not your average women

An interesting post from Robert Koehler, and American ex-pat living and teaching in South Korea, and author of the Marmot’s Hole, an excellent read. "Now, for those of you who might not know, I managed to earn the nickname "Dog … Continue reading →

Ryan Overbey has put together a nice site for the upcoming Buddhist Studies Graduate Student Conference at Harvard in April. “The Buddhist Studies Graduate Student Conference, inaugurated by Harvard students in 1997, has become an important annual forum for interdisciplinary … Continue reading →