(CODMAN SQUARE, BOSTON) - First of all, they eat babies in China. Just wanted to mention that first rather than, say, write a fifty thousand word article on the gruesome activity I heard of while m.i.a from my assignment covering the 2008 Olympics.

Needless to say, as ambitious as we were, there was no way I could do the story on our budget, with the lingering legal issues and state of the economy, and as I contemplated what to do over a $375 bottle of Stamping Ground Bourbon, the carpet came right out from under us, and the empire was bankrupt. Continue Reading »