Our Royal Family
While the rest of the nation is held in thrall by Mimi Alford’s lurid tales (almost wrote tails!) of JFK’s improper behavior toward her when she was a sweet young intern at the White House, the...
View ArticleThe Kennedy Kult
Boston used to call itself a drinking town with a baseball problem. That hasn’t really changed, but we have bigger problems than the chicken-and-beer chugging chokers wearing the embroidered B. We have...
View ArticleYou May Be Shocked to Learn…
Another Kennedy gets hisself in trouble: Robert F. Kennedy’s son, Douglas, faces misdemeanor charges over an incident at a New York hospital last month in which he knocked down a nurse while holding...
View ArticleWanna Drive a Kennedy Crazy?
Admittedly a very short drive (like off a bridge, say). Quote ‘em. Remember this two years ago? Brilliant move—brilliant. It drove them absolutely bat-[bleep]. And you can bet wrapping himself in the...
View ArticleFrom a Family That Knows Call Girls
He would know whereof he speaks: Leave it to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to one-up Rush Limbaugh in the name-calling department. “Speaking of prostitutes, big oil’s top call girl Sen Inhofe wants to kill...
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Get a Room, Part Two
We’ve already documented the unnatural acts of journalism performed on Elizabeth Warren by the Boston Gob. Now they’re putting the moves on the Kennedy boy: On a balmy fall evening in 1999, Joseph P....
View ArticleConnecticut’s Third Senator
I know we’re all about what the Constitution is supposed to do “on our behalf”, but can’t we be represented by someone who actually lives here? Edward M. Kennedy Jr.’s emergence in the Bay State’s...
View ArticleAre You Ready For…?
Senator Markey? Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of him. He’s my rep (I’m pretty sure), and I can barely remember him: US Representative Edward J. Markey, dean of the state’s Washington delegation,...
View ArticleSo, Who Do YOU Think Killed JFK?
Rhetorical question—I don’t care what you think. But let’s look at the candidates. I think most people put Lee Harvey Oswald at the scene, but did he act alone? Among his alleged sponsors and...
View ArticleBlogging With Half My Brain Tied Behind My Back, Just to Make it Fair
BTL Nov. 18: What we don’t have is any credible evidence (even incredible evidence) that the “climate of hate” in Dallas had anything to do with it. If you look at the newsreels of the day, with...
View ArticleLizzie Warren Took an Axe/And Gave Ma Clinton Forty Whacks
More like a tomahawk than an axe: In an echo of 2008 — when Ted and Caroline Kennedy backed upstart Barack Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton — members of the Kennedy clan have been quietly wooing...
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Dog Bites Man
Kennedys plunging into water: old news. Kennedys plunging themselves with water: new news. Ethel Kennedy, the 86-year-old widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, took the so-called “ice bucket challenge” at...
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