Hey, Boston Globe, your slip is showing!

[yy4me]

When I was a kid, many moons ago, one of the worst things someone could say to you as you prepared for any occasion was that" your slip is showing". Somehow it meant you committed a giant faux pas that needed addressed immediately. I question the reason for some of content in an article in the paper today.

With the world a far different place now, certain new things are important: some things in the newspaper paper are just fluff and other articles are meant to influence us in ways we would not even consider, just little jabs to the back of the memory that install some kind of a negative.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/08/25/small_college_awakened_future_senator_to_service/

In this mornings edition of the Boston Globe, headline story,"Seeking unity, Obama confronts divergent audiences." Fine

And yet, on the very first line of the article, the sentence reads:

LOS ANGELES- When a reserved Hawaiian prep school graduate named Barry Obama arrived on the well manicured campus of Occidental College in the fall of 1979, sophomore Mark Parsons gained more than a new dorm rate. HE GAINED A SMOKING BUDDY.

Somehow, this offends me to the point where I'd like to scream at the Globe writer. With all our national mistakes, all our evil politicians, all our blunders, this is the writers first line? A smoking buddy?

I could not get myself to continue reading this article, any more out of place comments like that one and I'm sure I'd have an accident driving to work, yell at my boss or do some other stupid thing to vent. I'm getting old, maybe it is just me.

PS: My side window of the car now proudly sports an Obama/Bidden picture( yesterdays from DU, cleaned up for the gentle eyes of my fellow commuters.

[WCGreen]

1. There actually is a website...

http://yourslipisshowing.com/

[grannie4peace]

2. who is mark parsons?

i am behind you ---sensationalism sucks.... report real news!!!!

[No Elephants]

3. The Globe endorsed Hillary and has always been snarky about Obama. Complain to the Globe!

[SoxFan]

7. Actually, the Globe endorsed Obama

But i agree, the news coverage, which is overseen by DC editor Peter Cannellos, has been very snide towards Obama throughout the campaign.

[Indenturedebtor]

4. Send them a letter explaining why you're cancelling your sub

They don't care about anything else I'm sure. There are plenty of good papers from other countries that you can have delivered.

[seaglass]

5. You should have finished reading, there was a point to that comment.

"Parsons, who hailed from white, working-class Philadelphia, and Obama, from a multicultural childhood in Honolulu and Indonesia, forged a bond over those stolen interludes that only cigarette smokers know."

Have you ever smoked? There is no doubt that there is a bond between smokers and that is how they met, there is no reason to get upset about it.

It's like an ice-breaker, in fact I just met someone at the beach on Saturday because we were both looking for a place to smoke away from non-smokers. I have made friendships at work that started because we both took our smoke break at the same time.

There is a real connection between smokers and it isn't a dis to state the truth.

[zbdent]

6. along those lines of "subtle implications"

On Wednesday, when the news came out about Stephanie Tubbs-Jones (Cleveland lawmaker, Dem), the local RW radio morning guy said that, having found her slumped unconscious behind the wheel, her car was "impounded" - negative connotation ... there was not yet any word on her condition (for those who don't know, she suffered a burst brain aneurysm. Died Wednesday evening.) - but the radio guy implied something illegal, like drunken driving (a city councilman was arrested for drunken driving and convicted recently).

Now, I explained that to a RW co-worker ... he brushed it off.

Then, on the same radio station, I heard a news report where a drunk driver (with repeat offenses) was taken into custody. Never mentioned what happened to the car ...