Relationships

But come on, Pedro's pitching!

adamg — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:34:09 -0500

Karin reports some guy just canceled a date with her so he can watch the World Series with his roommate tonight.

Tip for girls: Only give out fake numbers that don't actually work

adamg — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:59:48 -0400

Annelise reports some chick in Atlanta who can't actually say no to the boys who want the digits is giving out her phone number up here in the Boston area. Like Lil' B and his crew:

... I'm keeping my phone on at night because my sister is extremely pregnant and I want to be woken up if she goes into labor. I do not appreciate Lil' B texting and calling me all night long. ...

MIT is virgin territory

adamg — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:45:52 -0400

The Tech reports 42% of MIT students considers themselves virgins (way higher than the national average), with chem majors the least likely to have had themselves deflowered. The report also discloses that 52% of non-virgin seniors have committed floorcest, or sex with dorm mates.

Stalkers can reform themselves, court rules

adamg — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:08:51 -0400

The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today a lower-court judge was wrong to permanently bar a man from contact with a former lover and her daughter, because there is no evidence he is still barraging her with "thousands" of phone calls and that if she begins to feel physically threatened, she can always file for a new temporary protective order.

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No sex please, we're Tufts students

adamg — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:24:39 -0400

Tufts Daily reports Jumbo U. has a new policy that prohibits students from having sex in their dorm rooms if their roommate is present. Seems Tufts doesn't have many places for couples in lust to be alone, because there were "a significant number of complaints" about roomie sex last year. College officials emphasize the rule is meant to foster open communication between roommates, to try to head off formal complaints to the school.

Via Wicked Local Somerville.

Closing time

adamg — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:55:50 -0400

Sean Sullivan stays up late at the Hong Kong at Faneuil Hall.

Copyright Sean Sullivan. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

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Gorilla marketing backlash: Boycott the zoos

adamg — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:44:50 -0400

Cleary Squared writes the anti-PETA publicists running the local zoos need to be taught a lesson after their killing-fields stunt over the weekend.

The Outraged Liberal doesn't go that far but writes legislators need to take a step back and carefully consider what to do about this latest plea from Zoo New England - which has been on the brink for a couple decades now - before simply giving them everything they want.

David Bernstein considers what might happen if other organizations adopted Zoo New England's tactic:

... Administrators of the Greater Boston Food Bank now say that, despite earlier predictions, they are now "reasonably confident" that state lawmakers will be spared the sight of the Charles River running thick with the corpses of Massachusetts's emaciated children this summer. In a statement released today, the Food Bank says that they can probably keep the state's most vulnerable children fed for two months on the meat from euthanized zoo animals.

When activists wed

adamg — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:01:03 -0400

What better place for them to get married than in a peace garden?

The lengths some people go for a pair of sneakers

adamg — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:37:26 -0400

Not just any sneakers, of course, but fancy-shmancy sneakers named after a rare lobster. Fun and Fearless in Boston reports on how she hooked her boyfriend up with a pair.

Taxes up, services down under budget passed yesterday

adamg — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:42:49 -0400

The Globe has the details.