Results tagged “bostonglobe”

The Defense Department contracts various corporations to provide services in Iraq, from security detail to U.S. ambassadors and government officials, to rebuilding roads, power grids, schools, and general infrastructure. But last year the role of private firms in Iraq was questioned after Blackwater USA, a private security firm, was accused of firing openly on civilians in Baghdad on multiple occasions. We look now at more recent news from the defense contracting sector and how it has provoked considerable controversy.

We can understand how Bill "Probably Tired of Having Puddin' Pops Attached to His Name" Cosby might be a little skittish when it comes to dealing with our local media; after all, he's been having a tumultuous PR year. What we can't understand is how he figures denying venues the ability to advertise his appearances in The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Daily News is doing his shows any good or the papers any harm. In fact - by limiting their ability to get the word out to the largest audience possible - it seems to us that Cosby is only punishing the venues.

It looks like Junior Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is trying to pick a fight with Boston -- over the Catholic priest/molestation scandal. Brian McGrory, a Boston Globe columnist, had this to say this morning in response to a 2002 article wherein Santorum blames liberalism and Boston for priests wanting to diddle little kids:

So I asked a Santorum spokesman whether the senator still believed what he said about Boston. I mean, guilt might be our greatest natural resource, but do we really have to fall on our collective sword over wayward priests?"It's an open secret that you have Harvard University and MIT that tend to tilt to the left in terms of academic biases," said Robert Traynham, the Santorum aide. "I think that's what the senator was speaking to."

Dude. What? As if Pennsylvania doesn't have a reputation for being somewhat backwards as it is (Philadelphia excluded, of course) -- now we have a Senator representing our state saying (more) idiotic things and inviting Boston residents to hate on us? Luckily, it looks like Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino has invited Santorum to visit Boston and "see what it's all about." He even offered to send a welcome wagon. Mayor Menino and Bostonist, you can keep him.