Well, that was a whole lot of nothin'.
With a chance to gain some ground in the Eastern Playoff race, the Bruins came up completely empty, losing 1-0 to the Panthers despite completely dominating the game. For the third period, in fact, Florida could have left their sticks on the bench, since they were making no effort to attack, focusing instead on launching their bodies in front of every Bruin pass and shot, and counting on goalie Scott Clemmensen (a BC guy) to take care of the rest.
Maybe the minds behind the new ad campaign for recruits to the Boston police force should rethink where they're posting their signs. We have further evidence for Brian McGrory's column about the Scottsdale Arizona police department trying to pluck recruits from Boston's finest at our city's urinals. Photograph taken by Jon Petitt....
--Forget Ed Davis. The Scottsdale, Arizona, police department wants you. Brian McGrory writes in the Globe about seeing an ad for joining the police force – yes, Scottsdale, Arizona - in one of the men's toilets at Fenway Park. It probably doesn't get any more "Boston" than the men's toilet at Fenway, so why on earth would Scottsdale be advertising there? McGrory called them and found they're doing it because they've got the money. And...
Oh MBTA, why are you so, so, so wrong all the time? We read in Brian McGrory's column today in the Globe that the T is unveiling a new "courtesy campaign" to address employee and customer rudeness. Now, we know about rudeness (both receiving and dispensing), and more good feelings on public transportation would surely be a good thing. But when the state's secretary of transportation says, "The public isn't going to ride if...
Bostonist has made little secret of our pro-gay marriage feelings, but we didn't think our daily blathering would have a real effect on the debate. In fact, we still don't think that, but we can't help but notice the how the opposition to gay marriage has faltered lately. First, State Rep. Eugene "Bete Noir of Brian McGrory" O'Flaherty, who was once unapologetically anti-gay marriage, had a change of heart last week, touchingly motivated by attending a gay friend's wedding. (As an aside, Bostonist can't believe he was even invited - we certainly didn't invite anti-semites to hobnob with the rabbi when we got married.) And today the Globe reports that Representative Philip Travis of Rehoboth, who has led the homophobic anti-gay marriage contingent in the House, will not seek reelection. For once, Bostonist feels the same way Mitt Romney does: miffed. What's going on here? Is everyone finally realizing that gay marriage isn't that big a deal? Is the Commonwealth living up to its heartland reputation and becoming completely disconnected from the mainstream of American political thought? What will we write about? Oh, right. The governor.
It’s good to know that Brian McGrory is still on his game. Bostonist felt that the opinion piece fell a bit short of due political criticism. Not to imply that it isn’t a great thing for Massachusetts to host the few hundred people at Camp Edwards, it is, nor suggest that Romney shouldn't have done it, he could and should, rather posit that something political was Mitt's motivation.
