War on moles

Published 10:58 pm Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Martha vs. moles

We say there’s little you can do about moles, but Martha Stewart suggests digging a trench and burying a fence around your garden beds.

Or, in her case, order your groundskeeping staff to do the job, and then profanely berate them when their work doesn’t measure up.

Perhaps Martha simply kills the burrowing insectivores herself with her deadly telekinetic powers.

Pee-yew: Imagine leaving a pot roast on the kitchen counter for four days or so. Now imagine the pot roast weighs about 60,000 pounds.

That’s what whale researchers dealt with Wednesday when they performed a necropsy on a gray whale found dead in Saratoga Passage.

We bet even Quincy, M.E., would have lost his lunch on the beach.

Going char-less: Starbucks hopes to reverse its slump by promoting Seattle’s Best Coffee, which it assimilated in 2003.

In case you were wondering, Seattle’s Best Coffee uses Starbucks’ cast-off beans — the ones that weren’t burned to crisp in the roaster.