Jenn Martinelli Blogging in Boston

This is pretty funny. I like the monkey shooting up. He must go to the Starbucks on School Street in Boston. That's where all the cool kids go to shoot up in the bathroom so that it has to be shut down and cleaned by people in bio-hazard suits which means us normal people who don't shoot up can't use the bathroom. Bastards.

This is my favorite part of this article:

Federal courts, he said, should defend people's right "to live in a republican form of government free from tyranny, whether that comes at the barrel of a gun or by the decree of a court."

Oh yes, the tyranny of tolerance. How oppressed you are as an intolerant biggot. I feel your pain. Asshole.

Hope everyone had a great day! Rob and I went to Syracuse. More on that later.

Like this guy for instance.

I don't have anything new to say, but I just want to make sure that everyone understand that this guy is out of his mind. Evidence:

"During the campaign, he said he favored the death penalty for abortion providers and that he had heard there was "rampant lesbianism" in Oklahoma schools. He called state legislators "crapheads"..."

Ha ha, no more fox hunting for you, you old bastards. Kind of funny. I think it's interesting that it's such a kind of high-end sport for some reason, with the fancy red jackets and the horses. Meanwhile hunting in the US is all about goofy fluorescent orange camouflage and people accidentally shooting women in their backyards who live too close to deer country. What a world.

Learn more about it here. Former president Jimmy Carter and George Bush Sr. were there as well as good ol' Dubya and of course Clinton's family.

Are we sure we can't just make Clinton president for life? Maybe we can clone him. Get on it, Science.

Hey everybody, lucky you... in case you want to support my obsessive knitting/crocheting habit, you can find my wishlist here. Now hurry up and order, because there is currently a 20% discount on anything you order form my wishlist! Only till December 20th though. Thanks!

Well, they arrested somebody. Now if he did it, they might as well just throw this kid in a room and lose the key. What is fundamentally wrong with you as a person that you are raping people at age 16 (not that it's OK when you're older)? Seriously. It's ridiculous.

The correct answer to this poll is Brandeis University.

I temped for a couple of months when I first moved here. First at Brandeis which meant taking the commuter rail from Porter Square station every day (I walked from Inman Square). Then I temped at a law firm for a few weeks, then at the Mass Turnpike Authority for a couple of days before starting my real job at Syska & Hennessy. After that came Payette and now I'm at Shawmut.

I worked at Crate & Barrel (the Fanieul Hall location) while I worked at Syska, during the holiday season of 1998-99 (it was a seasonal job).

Read all about it! Here are several reasons that people totally suck.

1. The Catholic church sucks.

2. People who are too fucking stupid to feed their children suck.

3. People who shoot someone in the head and film it and post it on the internet should have their own heads blown off. By the way, let's add that this woman was against sanctions and the war and worked for years helping Iraqis in humanitarian efforts. I guess we all learned our lesson: don't help anybody.

Oh, and don't forget about genocide in Rwanda, hate crimes in the Netherlands, and then there's this guy, who is clearly insane, except in the state of Oklahoma.

Oops, too bad this happened on my street. I don't even know in which building. Not mine I assume but somewhere close by, within a block.

Even better, I had been out right around that time - I ran down to the convenience store to get a couple of things. Yeah, I won't really be going anywhere without Rob or Billy the dog anymore. It's kind of dumb and reactionary, but you can't really help it. What else can you do?

Too bad this is the closest I've been to a crime since moving to Boston 6 years ago, meanwhile it's supposedly the safest and best neighborhood I've lived in. Oops.

I'm sure this shark can look forward to being hunted down and killed now. See my previous thoughts on animals that eat people.

Hooray! The rate of girls ages 10-14 having babies is the lowest it's been in the US since 1946! Congrats, 10-14 year olds for being less slutty!

OK, so this article is kind of interesting. Then my eyes almost popped out of their sockets when I read this line:

Visa and MasterCard are nonprofit associations made up of thousands of bank members.

I guess I never really thought about exactly what Visa and Mastercard were... but I certainly never would have thought of them as non-profits. Sounds pretty shady to me. If you're a non-profit why are you violating anti-trust policy? It must be to help the community.

Heather has a crazy hard test today and also has to be the anesthesiologist (not sure I spelled that right) for a surgery today on a dog. Good luck, Heather! Take good care of that dog!

I just came across some random thing on the web that helped to inform me that while the median and average incomes in certain neighborhoods in both Seattle and Chicago are comparable to those in my current neighborhood (Beacon Hill) the housing costs are approximately 50% of those in Boston. Oops.

Keep it up Boston, and I might have to leave you one day.

Sorry, this is really f-ing funny. I would like to point out that I don't think everyone in the south is an ignorant asshole, so I would like to think of this as just being directed to those who are. Just as people are making the northeast one big lump of "liberal elite", turnabout is fair play.

Oh yeah, and don't forget to stop shopping at WalMart. Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about.

Funny. I don't even think it's a joke.

Here is a fun way to find out. Good luck at your annual review! Ha ha.

Hey guess what, Newton? It's too expensive for me to deal with the fact that your city is dumping raw sewage into the Charles. It's an affront to my humanity. So stop bitching and clean it up.

Learn more about how repulsive the Charles River is from this guy who's crazy or stupid enough to swim the whole length of it. Hopefully he'll be alive for more than a few days after he's done.

At least that's supposed to be the case. Gee, wouldn't it be nice if we found out not that "democracy works" but "cheating works" and that Bush (or Bush supporters) stole two elections?

Does anyone know how hard it is to move to France? Or maybe Japan? Sweden?

SIGH.

I'm sorry you found out that you have breast cancer the day after your husband wasn't elected vice president. I hope you'll be OK. That's quite a fucking week.

Should we maybe have some other country that's better at voting supervise our process? Seriously, did you know that 70% of Ohio is using the same voting system that caused allt he problems in Florida last time?

It's not official yet but it's not looking good for Kerry. I heard someone saying this morning that some idiot on TV said that Bush beating Kerry was "The WalMart Nation beating the Starbucks Nation".

Well, congratulations WalMart Nation. Enjoy losing your job and living on the street. Morons.

This is my favorite part:

"People ask, 'How can it be bad for things to come into the U.S. cheaply? How can it be bad to have a bargain at Wal-Mart?' Sure, it's held inflation down, and it's great to have bargains," says Dobbins. "But you can't buy anything if you're not employed. We are shopping ourselves out of jobs."

Super duper.

Are people actually debating something about the fact that a teacher in Newton assigns a 15-page paper for seniors? Oh, sorry, a paper that could be "up to" 15 pages? Let's remember that these papers are probably double-spaced with a 1-inch margin at least... ie: it's not really all that much writing. I'm pretty sure I had to write a couple of papers like this in school and it wasn't the end of the world. These kids probably write 15-page emails to their friends. I really don't get what the big deal is. Certainly you should be capable of writing a 15-page paper on something that you research for a year or a semester. You should be able to write something a lot longer than that.

Give me a break, people.