Boston: Not a city for the clueless

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Great Advances in Feminism
http://www.openmediaboston.org/node/788

The Cambridge AboutWomen Project (which seems to lack a web presence) has taken a bold stand against male teenagers slouching.

I hope they'll support me in my projects, "No Fat People", "No Bags Larger Than Fifteen Pounds" and "Muzzling Shrieking Coeds".

Seriously, is it so hard to walk up somebody and say "excuse me" or just start to sit down?

EDIT: Also, has anybody else noticed that "Open Media Boston", with what seems to be a mission of free speech and sticking it to the man, moderates membership? I guess "open" is only for people they agree with.

Android/Redneck 2012!
It's a law, everybody who was governor gets a portrait at the State House, and Mitt the Zit is no exception. Sure, I could post a mature, reasonable news article about this. But then you wouldn't see the Blingee attached to this post:

http://wonkette.com/409596/official-romney-portrait-unveiled

Just thought I'd pass that along.

Nominated
So far, this gets my vote for "Most unnecessary heart-wrenching details given in a request for information" post for this year. This beats out all the "Look at meeeeee! I'm actually moving in with a woman and need to sublet my old place" TMI posts. There's still some head-room though. We haven't had anyone ask about where to sell a kidney, but in this economy, we might yet see that.

Who wants to prank this?
http://www.bostoncasting.com/?p=526

Spike is apparently casting for the reality show "America's Biggest Asshole" in Boston.

To save time, auditions are being held simultaneously at BU and the State House.

Kill A Kitten
I hate to see animals put to sleep, so I'll only adopt from a shelter that stands to kill them. No sense in adopting from a no-kill shelter since the kitten's life isn't in jeopardy there. If only more people would see things this way. In a perfect world, no one would ever adopt from a no-kill shelter. With nobody to take kittens off their hands, no-kill shelters would suffer unbearable financial strain, go broke, and disappear. Soon every shelter in existence would have a kitten-killing policy. A perfect utopian outcome for someone who hates to see animals put to sleep.

BREAKING: METRO DISCOVERS NEW NADIR OF FAILURE
Anybody notice the Metro's lead headline? "Jon and Kate hit heights of hypocrisy."

Crack local reporting, guys. I think you forgot, op-ed's in the back.

Fung Wah and other extravagant decadent luxuries
$18 for the bus to Boston is too expensive. I want $10.

How do I put this.... If 18 dollars is an unacceptable outlay, maybe traveling to Boston isn't the best idea. Maybe staying and taking an extra shift at work would be more helpful in the long run.

So is it just me or does anyone else think this post amounts to "OMFG, all, like, these greasy, like, Bostonians. Like, they need to, like, wash their faces and all, like."

The job site less traveled
http://community.livejournal.com/b0st0n/6645146.html

ok, 1) if no one goes to it, why would there be any jobs?

But MUCH more importantly: 2) Where on earth do they get the statistic that only 1.2% of the area knows about the site? do they have MIND READING RAYS? Did they poll? (In which case, after the poll, everyone they polled would know...) I mean, granted, everyone knows that 73% of statistics are made up, but still...

Weak snark
http://community.livejournal.com/b0st0n/6611864.html

I'm just intensely amused that running comm joke Andersen "11%" Mar has declared herself a "reluctant icon".

Of what, precisely?

Stay classy, Boston media
You know, I felt pretty bad about how Boston was losing all of its newspapers, until the CL Killer hit the press, and now we've got stories of a reporter trying to use Missed Connections to talk to his fiancee or their friends, the Herald gleefully feeding their comment trolls a link to his Weddingtracker profile so they could shit all over said fiancee (seriously, it's pretty terrible, you'd think she was in on it), and apparently every single reporter in the area harrassing anybody who was friends with the guy on Facebook for one-line quotes.

Gee, you think maybe this and the death of print are related?

Nah.

Not quite necrophilia, but close
The biggest shame if the Globe goes belly-up is that it will leave only the Herald as a Boston major daily.

Why is this a bad thing?

Well, take, for instance, this article in the Herald by Joe Dwinell about another possible attack on a call girl- this one down in RI. Go to the last paragraph on page 1 where he describes Julissa Brisman, the woman shot and killed at the Marriott, as "a 26-year-old stunner."

Jesus, Joe, why don't you just come right out and tell us you wished you had, if you'll pardon the expression, banged her too, while you're at it.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Boston Herald in all its glory.

It never rains but it pours
http://community.livejournal.com/b0st0n/6557477.html

I would like to search for something on the Internet. What would I use?

hey so i'm traveling, and want to know whether it's okay to bring some dangerous objects with me. how tight is security these days? i mean, a train can't do THAT much damage, right?

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