Month: May 2007

  • Why the Red Sox are in first place

    Unlike many members of Red Sox Nation, I don’t wear it on my sleeve. But my infatuation with the Olde Town Team goes back to my days as a BU student living in Kenmore Square, watching the ’75 World Series on TV with the sound turned down and the windows open in Myles Standish where…

  • Pharma’s snake-oil marketing to voodoo doctors

    If the title doesn’t make it clear that I’m upset, let me start by saying that an article I’ve just read on nytimes.com (registration required) has me neck-vein-throbbing apoplectic. (It’s my blog, and I’ll use 50¢ words if I want to, 50¢ words if I want to.) In short, I don’t understand how the marketing…