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He oto have known better: Beth Israel worker gets 3 1/2 years for embezzlement

The FBI reports Richard Webb, 42, will spend the time in the graybar hotel after pleading guilty to stealing more than $1 million by diverting checks to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's Ear, Nose and Throat department and by obtaining fradulent rebates for hearing aids he never actually bought.


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Duck vs. stripers in Boston Harbor: The fish win every time

Bob took some video of the large stripers in the water between Long Wharf and the Aquarium - and how they beat a frustrated duck to the hunks of bread he threw to them:


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Yeah, yeah, I got it - a couple of chests of tea

Colonial phone

Anywhere else, this might be a bit incongruous. But not on Tremont Street, where Robert snapped somebody talking on ye olde celle phone.


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She spends a week telling people taking up two seats on the bus to knock it off

TKOG reports:

... Blondie exhaled a double-lung of disgust and, as she stood, picked up her drenched umbrella from the ground of the bus and put it on my seat, where it lay dripping for thirty seconds while she arranged her bag. "Ooooh, I'm so sorry," she smirked, straight out of Gossip Girl, "Now the seat's all wet! You probably don't want to sit there!

Hey, whatever, I told her. I was going to wash this skirt tonight anyway. Shot her a grotesquely sweet smile until she rolled her eyes away. Dude, there is no escaping the vigilante bustice. ...


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If the Times doesn't want people reading boston.com headlines and blurbs for free, maybe it shouldn't publish RSS feeds

Kimberley Isbell at Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab examines the legal issues behind the hullabaloo over the iPad RSS aggregator the Times hates because it came with Times and boston.com RSS feeds built in.


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All you'd ever want to know about the firefighters' contract and then some

Mike Durant rounds up the coverage of the contract signed late Tuesday.


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Catholic columnist apologizes for saying gay parents sit around reading smut to their kids, but not for saying they shouldn't be parents to begin with

The Globe reports on controversy over a column in the Pilot, the Archdiocese of Boston newspaper, on whether Catholic schools should admit children of gay parents.

Naturally, being the Globe, they didn't link to the column in question (UPDATE: They've added a link, but it only shows up long after the rest of the page loads). Basically, the author argues the Church must boot all gay-reared children because their parents will sneak into Catholic schools and shamelessly push the gay lifestyle. He starts:

The question arises of whether children in the custody of (one cannot say, "children of") same-sex couples should be admitted to Catholic parochial schools. ...

The author also argues:

... The third reason is that it seemed a real danger that the boy being raised by the same-sex couple would bring to school something obscene or pornographic, or refer to such things in conversation, as they go along with the same-sex lifestyle, which--as not being related to procreation-- is inherently eroticized and pornographic. He might expose other children to such things, as he might easily have encountered them in his household. ...

And he fails to note the irony of writing in a Boston Catholic newspaper that:

It should be said that all of my practical concerns involve young children, who should be innocent of sexual matters and whose familial affections are still being formed.


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The curse of the A.R.T.

Bryce Lambert is thinking the Cambridge theater has replaced edgy-but-audience-alienating productions with dull-but-profitable fare, such as "Johnny Baseball:"

... Johnny Baseball, as one would expect and might've read, is wicked conventional, so much so that, if it didn't require such a large cast, I wouldn't be surprised if it became a seasonal theater fixture for tourists, locals, and local non-theater-types alike. I'd rather not get too deep into the plot here, because it's not very interesting, and (unless you’ve kept away from the TV and movie theaters for the last 25 years) you're probably able to fill in most of the blanks. ...

Still, he gives them points for funny local jokes and actors who actually nailed the local accent.


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Maybe he's not a big reader and missed all the news stories

Or maybe he was just a dumbass. NECN reports a guy who started working as an MBTA bus driver less than a week ago was fired after he was spotted with a cell phone.


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10-foot steel coupling ring? What 10-foot steel coupling ring?

After spending $137,000 attempting to locate the 10-foot diameter steel coupling that broke causing the multi-day boil water order for 2 million people in the Boston area in May, the MWRA is regrouping because it can't find a trace of the giant steel ring anywhere.

Of course, there's always my theory that it was never there in the first place...


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