Posted 1:10 PM by Gene

Today is Romy's day! We have too often -- WAY too often -- blasted the news trade's Our Town MO, so of course when the Boston hacks found two "heroic" firemen were drunk or drugged there was an inevitable backlash, perhaps because people have been primed for the treacle, as if it were a Constitutional right. In fairness they could hardly jackhammer firemen, who take risks few people do, including the hacks who always boast how many have died pursuing the profession; but perhaps the scribblers wouldn't be in such a pretty predicament if one of their specialties weren't the empty-calorie puff piece.