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Based on the number of text messages I got last night, the people who read (past tense) this blog expect and demand a picture of Peyton Mann...

My father-in-law wrote a book, a compilation of a lifetime (well, a lifetime depending on how long you've been alive) of newspaper colum...

Oh, Rod Blagojevich, how can we miss you if you won't go away? In an interview with Esquire , Blago says he's "blacker than Bar...

Sad Brady made a rare appearance yesterday when the Patriots were just mauled by the Ravens, 33-14 at home. Brady had four turnovers. I thin...

Can anyone tell me what on earth is going on in this advertisement? I saw it on one of the new sites I see a couple times a day yesterday, b...

I take it as a sign the of troubled times in the newspaper business: ads on papers' web sites are becoming unavoidable. Not in number, b...

Back in 2005, the long-ago days of yore when this blog was actually funny, I got some good mileage out of a panda born at the National Zoo...

Wes Welker cried on the New England Patriots bench yesterday, not because they were losing yet another road game, but because of an injury t...

Now that free agent outfielder Jason Bay has signed with the Mets, I can say that I saw both his first game with the Red Sox, as well as his...

When I saw this bathroom in Suwanee, Ga., I couldn't help but think of the Leelee Sobieski vehicle Joy Ride . Can't say why, though.

Earlier this year, the principal of Danvers (MA) High School banned students from saying "Meep," the phrase uttered by the Muppet...

Some of you may have thought this blog was dead. Well I'm here to tell you that reports of our demise were greatly exaggerated. And just...

Almost exactly a year ago , I compared dormant construction equipment -- backhoes, frontloaders, the like -- to sleeping dinosaurs. It was m...

There was a time in the distant past when logging on to my email was a welcome adventure. I didn't know what would be waiting, and the s...