On Blue Mass. Group, Charley on the MTA declares victory in his site's seemingly unending war with WGBH's "Greater Boston" over John Carroll's inability to detect sarcasm - apparently Carroll rolled on his back last night and showed his throat to the bloggers, so Charley gave him an affectionate nip and now all is well in the pack again.

But Dan Kennedy, a panelist on the show (also: a blogger), says Charley misquoted him.

Mats Tolander explains why:

I dislike her coulmns because they rarely make much sense, and her work today is a good example.

Back when I was interviewing for my first full-time journalism job (at ye olde Middlesex News in Framingham), they sat me down at a desk, gave me a typed list of facts about an incident in random order and gave me 15 minutes to turn the facts into a story.

Let's pretend we have two candidates for metro columnist at the Boston Globe. Here are some of the facts: Days of torrential rains lead to worst flooding in 70 years on the North Shore. Hundreds are evacuated. State officials rush to the scene and offer immediate aid.

Now we set them loose. They have 15 minutes to write a column.

In the Globe, Eileen McNamara writes that sometimes police are too quick to name suspects. Noting that Imette St. Guillen grew up in Mission Hill, the neighborhood turned upside down in the Charles Stuart case, she writes:

... If Littlejohn is guilty, evidence will tie him to the crime. But am I the only one in Boston who gets shivers reading that detectives are going door to door interrogating every young black man in Littlejohn's Queens neighborhood who might have been an accomplice? ...