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The yin and yang of metro columnists

By adamg on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 9:01am

Yesterday, Yvonne Abraham brought us to tears with her column about the loving couple married for 62 years who died within hours of each other.

Today, Kevin Cullen tries to get us mad at Vermont because a thug from Charlestown out for some country air or something up there went after a guy with an ax and wound up getting himself killed.

What will tomorrow bring? No doubt Adrian Walker will have us gripping the edges of our seats with his thoughts on Bob DeLeo.

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Comments

By anon on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 9:25am.

"Do you know what really stinks?" Vinnie Tamburello's mother said. "Vinnie's initials are VT."

Cullen is really slipping. If the deceased thug's mother said something so idiotic, Cullen did her no favors by repeating it.

If I were the wannabe ax-murderer's parent, I'd be thinking the thing that sucks was my son was dead, not that his initials are funny.

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By anon on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 9:50am.

Kinda hard to feel bad for a thug who went after a guy with an Ax.

Some states have castle laws (that extend to any property) and it would be 100% legal to shoot him dead right there.

He died because of his own inflated ego, and bringing an ax to a gun fight in another state is almost a nomination for a Darwin award.

If there was a problem, call the cops or walk away. This guy escalated a situation and was on the bad end of it. Boo Hoo.

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By Michael Pahre on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 10:10am.

I thought your first misunderspeling was a mistake.

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By adamg on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 10:11am.

Fixed here, will fix in the other place. Just stupidity on my part, nothing intentional.

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By Kaz on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 10:46am.

I've always wrote axe and not ax, but I know both are perfectly acceptable. Am I missing something about spelling it ax up here?

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By Ron Newman on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 12:38pm.

This was about spelling the name of the new Mass. Speaker of the House.

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By Kaz on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 12:48pm.

No, I realize what they were discussing, I just put it in line because it was just another spelling question, not that it was directly related to DeLeo's name or anything. Thanks, though.

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By adamg on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 1:43pm.

Adam Reilly gets out his cyber-Xacto and explains how the column could have benefited from some major editing:

... His last mistake was attacking a man's pickup truck in Vermont. Because, in Vermont, this is a crime punishable by death. [Actually, his third-to-last mistake was bringing the axe to the gunfight; his second-to-last mistake was running at a man with an axe; and his last mistake was attacking that man's pickup with the axe. Careful not to gloss over what Tamburello did] ...

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By Spatch on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 2:05pm.

Vinnie Tamburello never ran away from a fight.
In fact, he ran towards this one with an axe.
But then he lost the fight.

It's all Vermont's fault.

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