admin

Tuesday, January 1, 2008 — Wednesday, January 2, 2008 — Thursday, January 3, 2008 — Friday, January 4, 2008 — On this day some number of years ago, we resolved never again to make any resolutions on this day. Today, we break that resolution, and resolve to post every day. More regularly. A little more often. We must, however, caution the reader against expecting the sort of constant Bruckheimeresque commotion in which some websites traffic. We were stimulated to throw off our torpor by a metaphor, used in an article published Tuesday in the Boston Globe (see right) in which David Mehegan compares author Seth …

Read moreNew Year, New Habit?

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 — A reasonable person might well wonder just what’s going on around here. And we’re not talking about the somewhat unusual motor vehicle depicted above, we’re talking about this operation: the online presence of the nation’s most venerable newspaper. Sorry to disappoint, but the answer is, nothing to get excited about. We’re just bumping along, putting out the paper, and occasionally dropping the ball. Which is why we haven’t posted anything new since 11/11. We did put the paper out last Friday. Skeptics are invited to scrutinize the number and date on our banner, above. There’s a fairly scandalous story on …

Read moreWhat the … ?

Sunday, November 11, 2007 — On Veterans Day six years ago the remains of the World Trade Center were still smoking, and the war in Afghanistan had just begun. No one, outside the Bush administration, was thinking that much about Iraq. The idea of attacking Iran would have seemed even crazier than it does now. Lower Manhattan is more orderly today. Afghanistan is more of a wreck. Iraq makes Afghanistan look placid. And people who think attacking Iran would be crazy have only to look back a few years to realize that for some people, crazy is no obstacle. On Veterans Day six years ago, …

Read moreVeterans Day, 2007