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Monthly Archives: August 2009
It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
Finally got around to reading “The Cocktail Renaissance” by Robert Messenger in the August 3rd edition of The Weekly Standard. It’s a little arcane for me – witness this bit of business early on in the piece: We’ve forgotten where … Continue reading
Ads ‘n’ Ends II
Two eye-catching ads from Wednesday’s Boston Globe Metro section: Chiquita To Go A half-peeled, half-phallic banana stands, well, up under the headline, “Cool Yellow Carrying Case Included.” The, er, body copy calls it, “The original energy bar, packed with nutrients … Continue reading
Were That It Was “Were”
I’m as clueless as the next guy about the use of “were” with the subjunctive mood (assuming the next guy isn’t Strunk & White), but these two examples from Michiko Kakutani’s review of The Battle for America 2008 by Dan … Continue reading
Nesson Lesson
Charles Nesson, lionized local lawyer and co-founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, got his clock cleaned on Page One of the New York Times Tuesday. And the piece – about Nesson’s hapless defense of illegal-music-downloading Boston University … Continue reading
In the Tank?
Tank McNamara is a sporadically amusing comic strip that runs in the sports sections of roughly 300 newspapers, including the Boston Globe and the Washington Post. Except not so much in the Post on Monday, as the paper’s comics blog … Continue reading
Globel Waning
Just gotta ask if the Boston Globe is composing its front page according to the actual news, or to Globe bylines? Case in point: Page One of yesterday’s Boston Sunday Globe. No quibble here with the two David Ortiz stories … Continue reading
Astrotruth
The debate over Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul/reform/government takeover has been upgraded to “hostile,” according to this New York Times report. The bitter divisions over an overhaul of the health care system have exploded at town-hall-style meetings over the last few … Continue reading
Harry Patch, R.I.P.
Nice piece by New York Times writer John F. Burns about the funeral of Harry Patch, who died at the age of 111 as the last living British soldier from World War I. Mr. Patch survived “the fighting at Ypres … Continue reading
Gone Golfin’
To compensate for the boss’s recent vacation, the hard-working staff at Campaign Outsider got Thursday off and went a-golfing, the first time in ten years we’ve struck a ball in anger. It was not a pretty sight. We have long … Continue reading
Gone Fishin’: What I Missed
I know I’m late to the party on this – and I haven’t seen any of the commentary about it, so I’m probably Johnny Redundant – but what the hell was the New York Times thinking when it ran this … Continue reading
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