Culture
Here’s a bizarre explanation for Blount Fine Foods’ pulling sponsorship from the traditional marriage event on Sunday: Corporate philanthropy and good citizenship has been part of Blount’s mission since inception. In keeping with that, we have a long track record of donating Blount-brand chowder and other products to all non-profits in our home area that…
Conservatives in this state must share a certain apprehension as they drive to ideologically tinted events — hoping that somebody shows up, but not the wrong people, and maybe it’ll be an indication of our powerlessness, but what if we have to prove ourselves in front of a one-time crowd… Well, tea parties aside, the…
What better outtro could there be to the fortieth anniversary of the Summer of Love than this? A 24-year-old police officer apparently was unaware of who Dylan is and asked him for identification, Long Branch business administrator Howard Woolley said Friday. “I don’t think she was familiar with his entire body of work,” Woolley said.…
Michael Hanlon does raise the ethical hurricane that spins at the end of the effort essentially to create a human brain with computer technology: Well, a mind, however fleeting and however shorn of the inevitable complexities and nuances that come from being embedded in a body, is still a mind, a ‘person’. We would effectively…
Bill Sammon recalls a day, back in 2002: When Bush visited Portland, Ore., for a fundraiser, protesters stalked his motorcade, assailed his limousine and stoned a car containing his advisers. Chanting “Bush is a terrorist!”, the demonstrators bullied passers-by, including gay softball players and a wheelchair-bound grandfather with multiple sclerosis. One protester even brandished a…
The important thing to remember is that prostitution is a matter of individual choice and freedom. Right? Although the atmosphere [at Cheaters] is often chaotic, Ruth said that the pimps had a very strict “system” of unwritten rules that the girls have to follow. For example, new girls have to be careful not to sleep…
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I responded to Michael Morgenstern’s offer to grant me access to a digital copy of his movie, Castle on High, which is currently part of the Rhode Island Film Festival, with a screening tomorrow at the Columbus Theater. It was definitely more engrossing than I’d expected. The documentary…
In response to my reservations about grand preening in celebration of a “counter protest” that exponentially outnumbered the mentally feeble Phelps family whom it targeted, commenter Chris offered the following: I approve of both the reporting, and the action. I like the idea that 1) our kids have learned to spot human junk, and react…
Remind me, again, who the intolerant bigots are? The police are investigating an assault Tuesday on Bald Hill Road. The weapon of choice: soda, salsa, eggs … “Your basic garden variety of food condiments,” Capt. Robert Nelson said Wednesday. It started as the four men stood at the median on Bald Hill Road and East…
Andrew (not Morse) joins the intraconservative conversation about bringing Rhode Island back in line with the rest of the country by making prostitution explicitly illegal: Justin, I agree with Dan on this. You can’t legislate morality. There’s a reason that prostitution is known as the oldest profession. Even Christ hung out with a hooker. And…
