Sunday, October 14, 2018

Sunday's Muck

Got stuck as soon as I saw the front page:

Spotlight
Aaron Hernandez

It's a six-part series, probably all week long! Can't tell you how discouraged I was to see that not only be the dominant story above the fold, but so much time and effort devoted to it when are there are so many other things..... then again, considering for whom and of the paper is written..... it's not $urpri$ing at all.

Unease sweeping the halls of Harvard on eve of race-based admissions suit

How quickly Kavanaugh is forgotten, and it looks to me like it is the Globe that is racist.

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Did Charlie Baker keep his campaign promises?

Trump is keeping his, like it or not, and the Globe kind of straddled the fold like Baker straddles the fence (the Globe was already a vote for Gonzalez anyway).

Not all nurses back ballot question to regulate staffing

Looks like the Globe is a NO on 1 -- which means I'll vote YES.

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US diplomat is said to have met with Taliban

Looking for peace in a war paper with a neocon warmonger as the lead negotiator.

And what happens if you get it is just below it:

Peacetime spells death for Colombia’s activists

While we are down there:

Pope expels retired Chilean bishops

Has the wuerl of a stink to it.

Germans protest far-right groups

A peaceful and loving controlled left.

Right-wing group protest gets violent

Agent provocateurs hired from the frat house to create a ruckus?

Islamic State abducts hundreds

11 people believed to be migrants killed in collision in Greece

At least 16 dead in pair of bombings in Somalia 

Election in November coming up, too.

Snowstorm kills at least 8 climbers in Nepal

SNOWSTORM? 

Yeah, nothing to $ee there or here.

Óscar Romero, archbishop killed while saying Mass, among those to be canonized

Tell it to the Chileans.

That was followed by a Total Wine full page advertisement on page A7 after the flip. 

I mention it for context and point of reference only.

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Far from the coast, Hurricane Michael packed an unexpected punch

Kushner paid almost no taxes for years, documents show

Globe buried it on page A10, just enough to make you angry.

Better get a good lawyer:

Trump will reportedly name Washington lawyer Pat Cipollone as next White House counsel

He's a conservative Catholic activist and longtime Washington commercial lawyer with connections to conservative commentator and Trump ally Laura Ingraham.

Mourners pack funeral for 8 of 20 killed in NY limo crash

Charges have been filed.

Medicare Advantage plans found to improperly deny many claims

That's crazy!

Idaho wildlife official under fire for Africa hunting trip

End of the reel at Alaska video store

Time to put the tapes and DVDs into the closet:

"An anonymously written letter led Michigan inspectors to find badly decomposed remains of 11 infants hidden in a ceiling compartment of a shuttered Detroit funeral home, police said. Inspectors with the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs found the remains Friday at the former Cantrell Funeral Home, just hours after receiving the letter telling them where the bodies were located. The funeral home has been closed since April, when state inspectors suspended its license following the discovery of bodies covered with what appeared to be mold. The remains of the infants, some of them apparently stillborn, were in a false ceiling between the first and second floors (AP)."

Clinton’s security clearance withdrawn 

She asked before it was taken from her, and I think you can write her off for 2020.

Freed pastor thanks Trump

No big deal, huh?

Got him back alive and it's a bottom brief?

I'm sorry, readers, but the sad fact is that the entirety of the A section of the paper has become unreadable.

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Week of violence brings more calls for community’s help

They turned over two men in connection with it.

5 competitive races to watch in New England for the midterms

‘We want a government that works for the rest of us,’ Warren says

This is what she means:

Entrepreneurs launch campaign to empower and grow local Latinx-owned businesses

Merrimack Valley residents seek a warm place to sleep as they await heat restoration

Five people arrested for allegedly trying to scam their way through RMV permit tests

Probe at Choate Rosemary Hall unearths more sexual misconduct allegations

Kavanaugh didn't go there, did he?

After a spike in leptospirosis in dogs throughout Boston, veterinarians urge vaccinations

Pisses me off and makes me shake my head:

Tom Brady bobblehead hits market thanks to Bobblehead Hall of Fame

We shall see if he can solve the problem that is the Kansas City Chiefs tonight.

I know it's none of my business, but it looks like the Red Sox may come up empty this year, especially with David Price starting Game 2.

At least you will have the Celtics and Bruins to look forward to, if you don't mind me saying, and who knows? Maybe they'll get lucky.

Until then, Happy Halloween, no matter who or what you are going as.