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Monthly Archives: November 2009
Memo to Pagliuca: Never Do That Again
U.S. Senate hopeful and human ATM Steve Pagliuca has been sending out a direct-mail piece that features a pair of outstretched palms waiting to be greased , along with the headline: “15 MILLION JOBLESS. OVER $1 TRILLION IN HANDOUTS. NEVER … Continue reading
Crawl, Baby, Crawl
Parents, start your rug rats. Today is National Crawl to Action Day, at least according to the folks at Seventh Generation, the self-described “maker of naturally safe and effective household products.” And it’s not just a consumer-goods company you’ve never … Continue reading
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Tagged Crawl to Action Day, Erin Brokovich, Green Inc., Seventh Generation
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What I Caught
Well the Missus and I went to The Big Town for the weekend and here’s what we saw (some of which may or may not be around by the time you read this): • A fabulous art exhibit – “Mercedes … Continue reading
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Tagged Bauhaus, Georgia O'Keeffe, MOMA, Robert Franks, The Met, The Royal Family, Whitney
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Gone Fishin’
The hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider will be incommuniblogo for the next several days. Play nice.
Fort Hoodwink?
From our Late to the Party bureau: Interesting split on Pres. Obama’s Fort Hood memorial speech on Tuesday. Here’s Tom Ricks in Foreign Policy magazine (via MSNBC’s First Note): I think President Obama missed a major opportunity at Fort Hood … Continue reading
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Tagged Fort Hood speech, John Dickerson, Pres. Obama, Tom Ricks
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Dead Blogging Taylor Branch at Harvard
So the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider trooped over to the International House of Politics in Cambridge to catch the Shorenstein Center‘s annual Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics, along with the David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism. … Continue reading
Dead Blogging Tina Brown’s MFA, Er, Talk
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Museum of Fine Arts Wednesday evening to catch its Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Celebrity Lecture featuring Daily Beast diva Tina Brown. Of course it should’ve been called the Ruth and … Continue reading
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Tagged Malcolm Rogers, MFA, Talk, The Daily Beast, The New Yorker, Tina Brown, Vanity Fair
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Newsy With a Chance of Meatballs
Gotta reproduce this AP story (via the Boston Herald) in its entirety: LAS VEGAS – Joey Chestnut maintained his dominance in the sport of competitive eating – and expanded his palate – by winning the first-ever Martorano’s Masters Meatball Eating … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Widow, Joey Chestnut, Pat "Deep Dish" Bertoletti, Sonya Thomas
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Conservative PunditWorld, Hasan Edition
Nice compare/contrast on Tuesday between the hard-right chattering classes and the moderate-conservative chinstrokerati. Representing the former: Wasp-penned Wall Street Journal editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz. Representing the latter: Every-liberal’s-favorite-conservative David Brooks, New York Times op-ed columnist. Both Brooks and Rabinowitz … Continue reading
Wrestling with Dr. Samuel Johnson
How sweet was it that Sunday’s New York Times Book Review featured side-by-side reviews of a biography of the great critic-lexicographer-biographer Samuel Johnson and an autobiography of wrestler-celebrity-nobody Hulk Hogan? So it was that Johnson’s “Falstaffian vitalism” paralleled Hogan’s “herculean … Continue reading
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