Today’s print edition of The Boston Globe came with a surprise. A copy of yesterday’s China Daily, a publication of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
On Facebook I have asked the Globe, through its subscribers group, for an explanation. I am aware the Globe has been printing the English-language Chinese paper for some years, but I am extremely displeased at having it foisted upon me.
Wowee, Colbert posts two days in a row. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in by conducting surveillance prior to attempting a pooch coup.
My second consecutive post with local news. I’m regressing to my stint in radio!
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— Market Basket (@MarketBasket) June 15, 2022
The last time Market Basket was featured here was eight years ago.
I was a Market Basket customer for ten years, until moving almost 25 years ago. The supermarket’s slogan, frequently announced in the store, was “More For Your Dollar,” but pronounced as written in the title.
I once caught a Market Basket employee tearing off the label from a cut of meat on its expiration date and replacing it with a new label. When the store stopped carrying a favorite variety of frozen yogurt, my wife was told Kemps stopped making it. She called Kemps and was told, “Yes, but we stopped making that flavor several years ago! Where were you buying it?”
One of my sisters has been a Market Basket customer for much longer than I was, and she says the stores have been very good for a long time. I wonder if that was thanks to the leadership of Artie T.? Perhaps the answer is in this documentary.
Fortunately, no one was hurt. One upside is the reckless driver has provided an opportunity for Trump supporters to sound reasonable.
The 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in is, I suppose, a good time to mention the day I spent with John Dean. As president of the college’s so-called Economics Society, I sponsored Dean for a campus lecture.
A previous guest speaker had been Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith, but what did John Dean have to do with Economics? Nothing directly, but the faculty advisor, Dr. Darrow, was hot to talk with Dean.
It was a very interesting day, and a very long day. I have a newspaper clipping somewhere about Dean’s talk that includes a photo of him that I arranged to have taken. If I find it I’ll post a scan and have a bit more to say.
Rather than mentioning that Lauren Boebert has never been a prostitute, and that she didn’t have two abortions, Stephen Colbert explores Lauren’s deep and abiding faith in God and Guns.
And here we see why Boss Radio 66 DJ Tom Hanks has been absent from the Playtone Records station wagon. He’s been canoodling with Colbert!
