David Scott doubts the Globe's foreign coverage is the only thing that will be changing at the paper, and provides some early indications that the sports pages a year from now might look different.

John Daley caught Mike "The Old Plagiarizer" Barnicle and Dan "CHB" Shaughnessy on the radio yesterday:

... Barnicle brought up "the blogging thing," and as they chuckled and guffawed away, Dan Shaughnessy chimed in that "all bloggers" are losers and frustrated journalists. And apparently, we're destroying the political system.

To borrow from their friend Imus, Can these guys be more over?

Michael Femia reads Shaughnessy's column so you don't have to.

Carr thinks it's too bad the alleged killer will only serve 11 years in jail unless somebody kills him first.

Just when you think the only time Brian McGrory picks up the telephone is to call in another column, he surprises you with something like today's column on the poor kid who got his back broken by a drunken oaf at a Pats game (and yes, while I'd earlier, and often, criticized Our Boy Brian for dabbling in sports cover

At 8:13 this morning, WBZ's Ed Walsh said something like:

And now your Subaru Dealers of New England All-Wheel Traffic Report - brought to you by Toyota.

At the bottom of Mac Daniel's latest paean to the CharlieCard (but just before he acknowledges there might be one tiny small problem with them), he writes:

We also checked out reports that folks were throwing away CharlieTickets that still had value on them. We're not saying it's not true, but after donning latex-free rubber gloves, we rummaged in the trash and found 20 CharlieTickets. After running each one through the machine and checking their values, not one cent was found.

Jesse Noyes at the Herald has the scoop (and the internal memos): 125 jobs to be eliminated at the Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette, including 19 newsroom staffers (17 in news and 2 in op-ed). Buyouts will be offered; boston.com staffers, however, cannot take them. Also coming: Less space for news in the Globe and outsourcing in the finance and "advertising operational" areas (so, hmm, when you call to place an ad, you'll get somebody in Bangalore?).

On Squaring the Boston Globe, Harry says farewell to the original Ritz Carlton, which tomorrow re-opens as some new hotel:

The Ritz Carlton Boston is your grandmother incarnated as a hotel. It is from a different era. It insists on slightly higher standards of decorum. It takes very good care of you. And it is where you go for something very special.