Is there such a thing as a bad Friday?

Well the last Friday of May is upon us and as usual the weather in Boston is like that of early April still. But still things are looking up. First there is the fact that the Red Sox won yesterday and are now back in first place. Josh Beckett looked just dominating and while Papelbon gave up his usual roller coaster ninth of late, he still shut the Twins down.

Last night on the news was the story about the woman in Philly who called 911 to say two black men had kidnapped she and her daughter and they were in the trunk of her car. I had seen in an earlier report how two black men with damage to their cars had been pulled over. Of course they were innocent and you can not blame the police who were answering a kidnapping of a mother and child. Still, I can't help but still be worried because I had hoped with Barack Obama's election we would have moved beyond this BS but as this case shows there are still sick evil people like this woman who try and evoke racial fear for their own twisted ends. While I oppose hate crimes, I do hope this woman gets to spend a long time in a small jail cell. Hey maybe they can put her next to that other sick person who drowned her two kids and tried to say it was a black man who car jacked her. Two peas in a pod as they say.

Lastly for today was some sad news lately and that is how badly my old Alma Mata, BC is destroying one of its finest traditions and that is Cleansweep. For those who don't know, Cleansweep is when BC Alumni and other volunteers go into the dorms after students leave for the summer and collect materials left by the departing students. This material is then offered to various local non-profits who keep it out of landfills and give it to those in need. For the past several years BC has put up every obstacle to running Cleansweep easily. This year, none of my fellow volunteers received notification of the event and as near as I can find none of the non-profits who had received goods from Cleansweep knew it was going on. It would be a real tragedy if BC were to kill of this great event but sadly the signs seems to point to a death by neglect.