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Kevin Cullen must be working on one hell of a good investigative piece

That would certainly explain why he spent a total of 15 minutes writing today's column - a new set of insults for "Herr Whacko" - rather than doing any original reporting:

And Clark, just one more thing: When you look at the visitors' log at Nashua Street jail, and see an empty space, you'll know it was me.

Quite so.

Quite so? Yep, that's going to be some piece Kev is working on.

Earlier:
Herr, herr, herr.

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This bit of overblown rhetoric really got to me: "Whatever we pay them, it's not enough to listen to Herr Whacko drone on for 45 minutes in a phony aristocratic accent. I'd sooner have somebody remove my cranium. Without anesthesia."

He's very lucky that refusing to listen to someone being interviewed isn't a capital offense.

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Hyperbole is the worst thing in the universe

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why?

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It's not like I have a dartboard down in the basement with his picture on it or something. Irritated is more like it.

Back in the day, I really admired Cullen's crime reporting. He did some great work overseas. Then he got what's one of the premier positions in Boston journalism; indeed, of American newspapering in general - metro columnist at a big paper. When I heard he'd been made a metro columnist, I thought that was pretty cool (no, really).

Only now he's pissing it all away. I'm sure it's fun writing about his trip to the Delaware State Fair or complaining about Manny Ramirez or stretching the same two bad one-liners about overexposed Clark Rockefeller into two entire columns ("what about those wacky krauts, amirite?"), but it's not really good metro writing. Heck, it's not even particularly good college journalism (take it from an old college newspaper hack).

The Globe already has Alex Beam to give us Calvin Trillin-like writing (and Beam is actually often funny) and it already has Dan Shaughnessy to give us overwrought baseball venom. What it doesn't have right now is a metro column that consistently tells us something new or gets us to thinking (thank goodness Yvonne Abraham seems to be finding her columnist legs). And, yes, that annoys me.

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