The Globe convinces some guy to give up his secrets for getting $10,000 tables for only $5,000 and reveals the surprising news that Filene's Basement and Marshall's often sell things for less than regular department stores.

Via AR, who tries to provide actual tips for people who don't have $5,000 to spend on tables and who have lived in the Boston area for more than a week.

Charlie Savage moves to the Times.

A couple days ago, Rob expressed disgust with the way Dan Shaughnessy compared Kevin Garnett to Alex Rodriguez. He e-mailed Shaughnessy to let him know. Shaughnessy responded:

sorry -- no time for fanboy rants.

shaughnessy

Which Rob also analyzes, concluding:

... Who else wants to start a collection/bake sale to raise enough money to get Carl Everett back here and pay him to kick Shaughnessy in the nads?

Miss Von Schtoop reads this Globe story about panhandling at Mass. Ave. and Melnea Cass Boulevard and finds it pretty funny, from the Bulwer-Lytton opening sentence to the lack of any mention of all the Boston Chargers kids who equally annoy motorists:

... They open the article with such a cheeseball line: "The call went out: "Yo, po-po!" and within seconds, the panhandlers who meander with regularity through the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard near Boston Medical Center scattered to parts unknown." Really quite unforgivable writing.

Pretty soon someone there is going to start an article with the line "It was a dark and stormy night.." at which point we can just hire a few wreckers to tear down 135 Morrissey Boulevard because all hope will have been lost. ...

But Pulitzer winner Sacha Pfeiffer isn't going far, Adam Reilly reports: She'll become health and science reporter at WBUR.

John Daley sums up a big front-page story:

They painted a barn in Bellows Falls Vt and now they might have to paint over it. ...

Our hospitals are releasing deadly, toxic fumes into the atmosphere! The Globe has the story:

Boy poisoned by carbon monoxide released from hospital

Oh... my mistake. Just a bad headline from whichever Globe editor didn't quit last week.

And the Haitian columnist? And the Brazilian columnist? And the Vietnamese columnist? And the Russian columnist? Oh, right, the Globe is a bit short of funds right now, so they can only afford an Irish columnist.

Adam Reilly reports Carol Beggy, half of the Globe's sorta gossip page, is another buyout taker.

Firefighters demand respect from media following months of stories involving alleged drug use, federal probes, etc., etc.

What's interesting in comparing the stories by the Globe (above) and Herald is how the Globe explains that when firefighters started yelling how they are tired of being treated like "dogs" by the media, they were referring to a Herald editorial calling on the city to pull back on their "long leash," a fact the Herald omitted.