boston police

  • I've never read any Dennis Lehane, although I've enjoyed his writing work on The Wire and Ben Affleck's adaptation of his Gone Baby Gone. (Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, however, was atrocious.) But he has a new novel coming out in September that intrigues me: The Given Day, a 700-page historical novel about the Boston police union strike in 1919. Right up my alley. (3) #
    7/18/2008
  • While I don't think it's a good idea to show up to an airport or any high-security area with circuitry strapped to one's chest, it bothers me that the media is so freely calling this latest incident a "bomb hoax." Doesn't the word "hoax" entail some knowledge about the intentions of the doer? The most probable explanation is that these were the actions of a socially-clueless MIT geek who wears her circuitry art wherever she goes, although I guess you can't expect a security officer to grasp that on sight. (15) #
    9/21/2007
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