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Monthly Archives: July 2010
NPR Drives Anchor To Drink (II)
What is it with All Things Considered and All This Chugging? Once again, Weekend ATC had its host (in this case fill-in anchor Audie Cornish) hoist an alcoholic beverage (in this case meatliquor – your eww goes here). This is really … Continue reading
The Center For Suing In The Public Interest
As the hardworking staff noted several weeks ago, on June 22 the endlessly outraged Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) served McDonald’s a notice of its intent to sue in several states (including Massachusetts), demanding that “McDonald’s USA, LLC (‘McDonald’s’) … Continue reading
NYT/WSJ Front Page Hookup
It’s not often that the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal agree on the day’s top story. Friday, they did. The unifying figure? Charlie Rangel. Times headline: House Panel Will Try Rangel in Ethics Cases Journal headline: House … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlie Rangel, House panel, New York Times, try top Democrat, Wall Street Journal
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Campaign Outsider Theater Review
The Central Square Theater’s production of The Hound of the Baskervilles is a total gas – a wonderfully loopy, funny, funky evening that never flags. Bravo to Remo Airaldi, Trent Mills, and Bill Mootos for their energetic, inspired performances. The … Continue reading
Impenetrable Sentence o’ the Day (pat. pending)
From a New York Times piece on the Galileo Museum in Florence, Italy (formerly Florence’s history of science museum, which contains – and the Missus and I can attest to this – “a veritable curiosity cabinet of beautifully wrought scientific … Continue reading
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Tagged Florence, Galileo Museum, Italy, New York Times, Pope John Paul
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Newspaper Town (John Kerry Edition)
Boston Globe, 7/23/10: Democrats drop signature climate bill Kerry vows to keep fighting for passage Boston Herald, 7/23/10: The Herald story claimed, “Senator docks new yacht in R.I. – ducks $500G in Mass. taxes.” There are many sides to Big … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Jawn, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Capt. Kerry's Cash Cruise, climate bill, John Kerry
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Mad Menia
Thursday’s New York Times pretty much ran the gamut of “Mad Men” overkill. Exhibit A: Peter Applebome’s Our Towns column headlined: Decoding the ‘Mad Men,’ Ossining and Cheever Nexus Your eye-roll goes here. Exhibit B: This Banana Republic ad: Only … Continue reading
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Tagged Banana Republic, casting call, John Cheever, Mad Men, New York Times, Ossining, Peter Applebome
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Kristol Knock
It started with Weekly Standard editor William Kristol coming out in a recent editorial as a Tea Partier: We are not now quite at a founding moment, or even a re-founding moment. But we have arrived at a genuine crisis, … Continue reading
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Tagged Emergency Committee for Israel, Tea Partiers, The Weekly Standard, William Kristol
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