Several Ways of Choosing a Wife
Here’s a helpful suggestion for choosing a wife: Don’t pick from the bin that says “Tragic view of life.” Sure, she’ll share your love of Friedrich Nietzsche, But I find that kind to be overly […]
Here’s a helpful suggestion for choosing a wife: Don’t pick from the bin that says “Tragic view of life.” Sure, she’ll share your love of Friedrich Nietzsche, But I find that kind to be overly […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. As President Donald Trump forges ahead with efforts to “drain the swamp” of a federal government overwhelmingly populated by left-leaning bureaucrats, executives of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting huddled last night with their counterparts […]
Ennui–I feel nothing but ennui as Saturday night approaches. I am enervated, the product of over-stimulation. Every weekend my friend Emil leads me on a tour of Boston’s fleshpots, where we sample the courtesans, the […]
MAYNARD, Mass. Anthony “Big Tony” Scalzi, a rough-looking man who wears a sleeveless denim jacket and rides a motorcycle, doesn’t fit the stereotypical image of a poet, but that’s okay with him. “Frankly, I couldn’t give […]
Thousands lined the avenues of Paris to protest reforms designed to energize the French economy by opening up regulated professions with high barriers to entry. “Don’t touch my notary!” read one banner. The Wall Street Journal […]
Girl Scouts in Akron, Ohio are taking vigorous steps to collect debts owed by adults who fail to pay for cookies. Associated Press It’s two o’clock in the morning, and I’m lying in bed, […]
Four major sports. Seventeen years. Ten championships. Face it; after the Patriots won the Super Bowl Sunday night, Boston is Title Town USA. It’s never been done before, not even in New York, where they have two of […]
WESTLAND, Mass. On the Monday morning after the New England Patriots won their fifth Super Bowl, loyal fan Chuck Kehoe was not quite ready to return to work. “The game didn’t end until 10:30,” Kehoe […]
[H]e hoped that soon—given the opportunities for production—there might arise a school of vegetarian dramatists. Graham Greene, The Comedians Another day, I thought as I opened the self-addressed stamped envelope, another rejection. Who was it […]
One of the cheerleaders for the New England Patriots is a Yale graduate who works as a researcher in molecular biophysics and biochemistry at MIT and Harvard. The Boston Globe Dear Diary– How are you? […]