Ben Moser (he/him)

@benmoser.bsky.social

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NC kid turned suburban Boston dad. If you found me through my delightful political commentary, sorry about the hockey skeets. Go Canes. If you found me from my delightful hockey skeets, I hate fascism and say so a lot. Skeeting into the void since 2023.

Sassy bear with a scotch

Sisyphus pushing that damn rock, but the rock is labeled with the onamatapia for when a puck hits a post and/or crossbar.

Tom Dundon, Eric Tulsky, Rod Brind’Amour, Jordan Staal, and the entire Carolina Hurricanes organization have decided that winning is the most important thing in the world, rather than morality, rather than doing A Basic Right Thing, and as a result of their decisions, I have made my own: last season was my final run as a Carolina Hurricanes beat reporter. As both a human being with a moral code, a woman, and a sexual assault survivor myself, I cannot continue to support a team that makes a decision like this. Especially a team that makes this specific decision. This decision has broken my heart to make, but morally, the organizational decisions made since the acquittal have been a repeated slap to female fans everywhere.

A majestic rendering of Ben Affleck dressed in a Dunks uniform, hanging out of the Dunks drive-through with a smile that only Dunks can bring to someone as clearly damaged as Ben Affleck.

The Worcester Police Department steps in at this crucial juncture, among us residents surrounding the car about to take one of our neighbors away. And they do so on behalf of the ICE agents, not us. A Worcester cop comes over, stepping between the open car door and the community, past the ICE agents stuffing the mother into the back seat, and he looks at a woman holding the shrieking daughter’s baby. She’s also wailing in desperate anger and he says—to her—“Stop, stop, stop. They’ll explain. They’ll explain.”

Of course they don’t explain.

The woman’s daughter then jumps on the hood of the car. A Worcester cop pulls her off.

The crowd chants, “Don’t take the mother!” over and over again as the daughter keeps trying to get back on the hood of the car. More Worcester cops arrive, all helping the ICE agents carry out their rotten senseless work.

The Bull Durham mound conference scene

A shattered blue coffee mug reading “bunch of jerks.”