If there are any thinking people left who think we are living in a postracial society, we need look no further than Bristol County to find damning evidence to the contrary. Lost amid the big stories of the Hernandez and Tsarnaev trials over … [Read more...]

This news is not all that surprising: Report clears agent who shot Todashev. Of course, those of us in the regular world have to choose between two equally disheartening interpretations of this event: that it was part of a conspiracy, … [Read more...]

This is one of the best editorials I've read in a long time: HSBC, Too Big to Indict? The Times editors hit the nail on the head in terms of the baffling injustice and negligence of the government in not pursuing criminal prosecutions … [Read more...]

This AP piece appeared on the websites of both the Herald and the Globe today, and the way the story was framed shows, I think, how little respect the authors and/or editors have for the intelligence of the audience. By what idiotic logic … [Read more...]

Does anybody care about this story? Have we passed into the territory where innocent people in other countries are no longer officially human? Have we given up, once and for all, on the idea that there are "rules of war" that apply to the … [Read more...]

A highway menace after all. For lying about "black ice", trying to cover up the true nature of his little car accident, and for totaling a state car by not using it responsibly. If he had come clean 100% from the get-go, this thing … [Read more...]