On the Cover of the…
Posted on July 18th, 2013 in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »
I am so pissed-off and demoralized about the furor over Rolling Stone’s “The Bomber” cover that I’ve been taking to Facebook and posting, which is probably the world’s greatest time-waster other than Twitter.
But as soon as I get a little time, I mean to put down some more coherent thoughts here.
6 Responses
7/18/2013 10:12 am
Oh, get over yourself.
When are you going to focus on something of much more importance…the Boston Mayor’s race and City Council races and affect on….well everything.
7/18/2013 10:18 am
So the problem is, Annon, I live in NYC, and I don’t pay enough attention to the Boston mayoral race, much less the City Council races, to write about them, and even though bloggers are supposed to have an opinion about everything, I don’t.
7/18/2013 11:02 am
But I can’t help thinking that these are related topics in some way. The absurd over-reaction to the RS cover is some kind of love-it-or-leave-it statement about the city. When the mayor gets in the censorship business, look for a political motive.
Yvonne Abraham has it exactly right in the Globe this morning.
To see him as that skinny kid on the ground, or on the Rolling Stone cover, is to confront the possibility that good-looking kids who seem totally normal, good students who give off no sign of trouble at all, can become monsters, too.
If we are strong enough to survive these attacks, surely we’re strong enough to talk about how that is humanly possible.
We are, and we should.
I am going to start boycotting CVS, if I can find a pharmacy chain where I can buy the magazine, which I now want to read.
7/18/2013 11:08 am
Bravo, Harry. I will join you.
7/18/2013 5:55 pm
If you write about Harvard you need to pay attention
Boston controls Harvard’s fate
The End.
7/24/2013 10:05 am
For Annon, Or is it the other way around? I always thought it was Harvard that controlled Boston’s fate since they own a significant part of Cambridge and heavily influence Boston.