Boston Herald shares the blame for cash-starved government programs
When it comes to underfunded government programs, the Boston Herald is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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Boston Herald rude sales people won’t leave us alone
To: Boston Herald home delivery department Subject: Rude sales call from Boston Herald My wife and I (you can find us in your records under our home phone number [elided]) are no longer Boston Herald subscribers. We currently have no desire to resume our subscription. Since we canceled our subscription, your sales department has called… Read More »
Peter Gelzinis and Casey Anthony
Mr. Gelzinis, “Jury nullification” doesn’t mean what you seem to think it does. Please look it up before you make a fool of yourself again misusing the term in another column. I wonder if you were present for Casey Anthony’s entire trial, or watched the whole thing on video, or read the transcript. If not,… Read More »
Welfare moms should go commando style
To the editor: What a relief to see our elected officials finally getting tough on the aid recipients who spent 0.002% of last year’s welfare funds on underwear (“Pol gets tough on welfare abuse“, Feb. 15). How dare these women buy high-quality, inexpensive undergarments from Victoria’s Secret? Wal-Mart should be perfectly fine for poor people.… Read More »
Herald letter to the editor about Madoff / Picard
Here’s the letter I originally sent to the Boston Herald, with mark-up (strikeout for removed text, green for added) showing what they actually printed today: To the editor: It is infuriating to see rich people, who can afford to give back their imaginary “profits” from Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, whining about the actions of Irving… Read More »
Letter in today’s Herald: backyard pools are a safety hazard
In a recent tragedy, twin toddlers drowned in their family’s backyard in-ground pool. Two articles in a row in the Boston Herald mentioned that the authorities were investigating how the twins drowned despite the fact that the pool had a cover. There seems to be a widespread misconception, which the Herald articles exacerbate, that pool… Read More »
Can you say “pandering to the elderly”? Tim Cahill can.
According to Margery Eagan in today’s Herald, both Deval Patrick and Charlie Baker support “some type of road testing for the elderly.” Independent gubernatorial candidate Tim Cahill? Not so much: “I don’t want to take away licenses from able-bodied people or force them to go through a driver’s test,” he said. What the Legislature did,… Read More »
My letter about gambling in today’s Boston Herald
Here’s what they printed: A loser’s game The condition of our economy proves the absurdity of John Stossel’s argument that gambling should be legal because, “People are responsible for the consequences of their bad habits” (“Is it your choice to gamble? You betcha!” May 14). We’re digging ourselves out of the worst recession since 1929… Read More »
Boston Herald as cog in the vast right-wing anti-global-warming conspiracy
In a February 10 column printed in the Boston Herald, Jonah Goldberg repeats the anti-global-warming canard that severe snowstorms are evidence against global warming. In response, I sent the following letter to the editor: To the editor: Jonah Goldberg’s recent suggestion that severe winter weather disproves global warning shows an alarming ignorance of basic science.… Read More »
Boston Herald’s Joe Fitzgerald aspires to be the next George Orwell
To: letterstoeditor@bostonherald.com To the editor: I enjoyed Joe Fitzgerald’s recent satire of the pro-life movement. I laughed so hard coffee came out my nose when I read that “the only choice [the pro-choice movement] will tolerate is its own.” It was obvious that he was joking, since it’s so patently absurd to suggest that people… Read More »