The Importometer Reading For December 14, 2012
10 ) Tim Cahill’s corruption trial ends with a deadlocked jury. The odds of that happening were 20-to-one. 9 ) State Treasurer Steve Grossman wants Lottery players to be able to buy scratch tickets...
View ArticleThe Thought Cycle Of The New Englander During A Weather-Related Crisis
Presented in the programming language BASIC for no real reason: 10 – Power goes out. 20 – Gripe about it. 30 – Demand something be done. 40 – Reject proposal to bury power lines because of the cost. 50...
View ArticleThe Importometer Reading For February 15, 2013
10 ) The region continues to recover from the Blizzard of 2013, a.k.a. Winter Storm Nemo. The Weather Channel continues to fail to realize the irony of its name choice. (Read a book, people.) 9 ) Pope...
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10 ) The media catches flack for its coverage of the Stubenville rape case because of its sympathetic portrayal of the convicted rapists. Let ‘em have it, I say. Not like they’re going to be getting...
View ArticleThe Importometer Reading For April 5, 2013
10 ) Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy takes everyone’s guns! By which I mean, enacts common-sense gun control legislation. 9 ) North Carolina Republicans are pushing a measure to establish an...
View ArticleThe Importometer Reading For April 12, 2013
10 ) North Korea continues to shake its fist at the US…and even that, not too convincingly. 9 ) The Brad Paisley/LL Cool J mash-up Accidental Racist stirs controversy by forcing people to think about...
View ArticleSuggested Rules of Online Etiquette for Responding to the Boston Marathon...
As a public service to Internet users everywhere, Snark-Infested Waters would like to offer these handy tips for how to behave online in the coming days and weeks when discussing what happened...
View ArticleThe Importometer Reading For April 19, 2013
10 ) The state and the nation continue to recover from the Boston Marathon bombing… 9 ) ..and two days later, the authorities have nabbed a suspect. Or have they? Yes, they have! Wait, no, they...
View ArticleThe Importometer Reading For May 3, 2013
10 ) Three more people are arrested in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing. By now each of them should be the focus of their own wacko conspiracy theory (see below for more conspiratorial...
View ArticleThe Importometer Reading For May 24, 2013
10 ) Oklahoma is ravaged by tornadoes. Not OK. 9 ) The Boy Scouts of America drops its restriction on gay members, but not gay leadership. Still: they’re now officially more progressive than the...
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