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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Ad o’ the Day©
The Center for Consumer Freedom (“Promoting Personal Responsibility and Protecting Consumer Choice”) – which is a front group for restaurant, alcohol, and tobacco companies, among others – ran a full-page ad in Tuesday’s New York Times promoting the “vindicated sweetener,” … Continue reading
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Tagged 60 Minutes, Center for Consumer Freedom, Dr. Evil, Rick Berman, SweetScam
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William Safire, Rest in Prose
Nice sendoff to William Safire in Monday’s New York Times: a respectable (although not Grade A) obit, and a reprint of Safire’s final op-ed column from Jan. 24, 2005. Headlined “How to Read a Column,” Safire’s swan song starts this way: … Continue reading
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Tagged politerati, pucture the pomposity of the punditocracy, William Safire
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Pale Fire (Back) on Nabokov’s Posthumous Novel
Saturday’s Wall Street Journal piece headlined “Ghost Writers” detailed “[a] new wave of posthumous books by iconic authors.” Among them: Vladimir Nabokov’s “The Original of Laura.” Vladimir Nabokov instructed his family to burn his final novel, “The Original of Laura,” after … Continue reading
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Tagged Ghost Writers, Ron Rosenbaum, The Original of Laura, Vladimir Nabokov
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The Acorn Doesn’t Fall Far From My House
From Saturday’s Boston Globe front page: With conditions right, acorns go nuts Bumper crop plumps up squirrels while humans duck and cover [I]n many parts of the region this time of year, particularly this year, the sky is falling – … Continue reading
Errors o’ the Day (pat. pending)
Let’s stipulate, as they say on the Law & Order industrial complex (Coming next fall: Law & Order Lunch), that there but for the grace of God go the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider. Regardless . . . Error o’ … Continue reading
Taking a Flyer
As I walked through Coolidge Corner Friday night, I was intercepted by a nice young woman who handed me a flyer headlined, “When the government puts private wealth in charge of public health, service workers can’t afford to stay healthy.” … Continue reading
Sign o’ the Times®
The former Hollywood Video store on Harvard Street in Brookline remains closed (umpteen years and counting), thanks to a lawsuit filed by neighbors trying to block Chestnut Hill-based Women’s Health Services (read: abortion clinic) from moving into the space. As … Continue reading
Fun Facts to Know and Tell Update
More fun facts about medical malpractice, this time from a recent Weekly Standard editorial: Studies of the effects of [defensive] medicine put its price tag at a minimum of $100 billion a year and probably more than $200 billion . … Continue reading
Re-Checkin’ NECN
A couple of weeks ago the paid program “Style Boston” debuted on New England Cable News, and although the local chapter of Air Kiss Nation was all a-twitter, Style Boston was toe-curling TV to any of us civilians unlucky enough … Continue reading
Another Other Ad o’ the Day©
The local – and extremely pesky to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – Service Employees Industrial Union (SEIU) is at it again, with an EyeOnBI ad in the Wednesday Boston Globe char-broiling BIDMC for raising fees on late-night Emergency Room … Continue reading
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Tagged BIDMC, EyeOnBI, knife to a gunfight, late-night ER fee, Paul Levy
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