And Boston has the best sports teams in the nation...

Today's Boston sports summary:

Pats + Colts = Pats Undefeated + Colts defeated. The Pats are Super Bowl favorites.
The Celtics: Kevin Garnett Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen
Boston College currently ranked #2 in college football
Boston Red Sox World Series 2007.

Need I say more? Oh yes!! Hometown pride! Boston wins.

Full Episodes of Gossip Girl

You can watch full episodes of Gossip Girl here for free.

The show is on Wednesday at 9/8c, and CWTV promises to upload full length episodes on Saturdays. However, today is Sunday and CWTV still hasn't uploaded last week's episode, Victor/Vitrola. Not cool...

UPDATE: Turns out that Gossip Girl wasn't on last Wednesday (Halloween), and the Victor/Vitrola episode is coming up tomorrow, 7 Nov. The full episode will be online at cwtv.com on 10 Nov.

Living Apart Together

We've heard about unmarried couples who live together. But what about happily married couples that live apart? Read that story here.

Marathon Heartbreak

The NY Times reported a heartbreaking story:

A triumphant United States Olympic trials marathon turned somber yesterday morning when Ryan Shay, a 28-year-old veteran marathoner, collapsed during the race in Central Park and was pronounced dead at Lenox Hill Hospital.

It put a terrible twist on the victory by Ryan Hall, who exulted in the emotion of winning the race and capturing an Olympic berth. But he had no idea that the ambulance that had passed him on the course earlier was carrying Shay, his good friend and occasional training partner, a man whose wedding he had helped celebrate in July...

Learn more here.

Paul Tibbits, the Pilot Who Dropped the First Atomic Bomb, Dies

Paul Tibbits piloted the B-29 Enola Gay Bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima passed away this morning.

According to the article, "He was 92 and insisted almost to his dying day that he had no regrets about the mission and slept just fine at night...Tibbets had requested no funeral and no headstone, fearing it would provide his detractors with a place to protest, Newhouse said."

He was a strong soldier and figure after the war. Learn more here.

Raping a Prostitute is a "Theft of Services"?!

Ada Calhoun, a news blogger, reported that a striking story about municipal judge and a prostitute. According to her article:

The judge ruled that a woman forced by a client to have sex with three other men at gunpoint should be considered just "a robbery."

Salon.com's Broadsheet quotes the Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association's condemnation of the decision: "Even though the woman is a prostitute, it doesn't mean she couldn't be a victim. Once she says 'No, it's not okay,' then to have sex with her is rape."

It's amazing the judge could have thought otherwise, but she even defended the decision later to the press.

According to the AP article:

Municipal Judge Teresa Carr Deni heightened the furor when she defended her decision to a newspaper. ''She consented and she didn't get paid,'' Deni told the Philadelphia Daily News. ''I thought it was a robbery.''
Deni also told the newspaper that the case ''minimizes true rape cases and demeans women who are really raped.''

Learn more about the back story here.

How can someone honestly think that a prostitute has fewer rights under the law than other women?

"In Rape Case, a French Youth Takes On Dubai"

The NY Times covered a story of a young French foreigner, Alexandre Robert. It's a hard story to read, but he deserves the media attention. I hope his courage encourages the Dubai government to punish his aggressors. Learn more here.

You can find his personal support website, BoycottDubai.com, here.