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Monthly Archives: June 2010
Dropping Chevy Is Deuced Foolish
So, the New York Times reports, the geniuses at GM have decided that a Chevrolet is no longer a Chevy: On Tuesday, G.M. sent a memo to Chevrolet employees at its Detroit headquarters, promoting the importance of “consistency” for the … Continue reading
Wall Street Journal Gets Religion!
In its ongoing Come to Jesus initiative, the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday featured this headline and photo (but no story) dropped into the middle of Page One: ‘You Will Not Fear … the Arrow That Flies by Day’ Caption: RESCUE … Continue reading
Throw Texas Billionaire Dan Duncan From The Train
As the essential Dan Kennedy of Media Nation noted on Twitter: JD Rockefeller’s estate paid a 70% tax. Texas billionaire Dan Duncan’s estate pays zero. Socialism! http://nyti.ms/d4RGSY What the 140-character character of Twitter couldn’t accommodate about the (temporary) death of the … Continue reading
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Edie Falco And W.C. Fields Are An Item
Well, the Missus and I went down to the Big Town for a stretch but you don’t really give a damn so I have just three things to say: • The Brooklyn Museum rocks on Target First Saturdays. • Edie … Continue reading
Massachusetts Goobernatorial Race
Nice piece in Wednesday’s Boston Globe by Stephanie Ebbert calling the roll of the Bay State’s perennial political hopefuls (the “always-rans,” as Ebbert labels them) “whose names — Jill, Grace, Christy, Carla, Jack E. — are familiar to many on … Continue reading
Salt Too (Much) Negotiations
The Great Salt War is officially movin’ and shakerin’, as witness reports in these two reputably liberal media outlets. 1) Hysterical The current issue of The New Republic features a piece with this headline: The Other White Powder Is salt … Continue reading
Campaign Outsider Sports Trifecta™
On those rare occasions that the hardworking staff has three sports-related posts, we play the Campaign Outsider Trifecta (pat. pending). To wit: Prophetic Headline o’ the Day® Tuesday’s New York Times: Sweden’s Soderling Is a Force to Be Reckoned With … Continue reading
Free Books!
Good news! The hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider just discovered (D’oh!) archive.org, “a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages,” not to mention a stash of 1.8 … Continue reading
Jammin’ the Blues
From our Late to the Party bureau: A week or so ago the Wall Street Journal ran a review of the new six-DVD set, “Warner Bros. Big Band, Jazz & Swing Short Subject Collection.” Headline: What Swing-Era Audiences Saw and … Continue reading
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