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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Yankees Voice Bob Sheppard Deserved Better Boston Obit Pix
This is just wrong. Bob Sheppard – the voice of the Yankees at the Big Ballpark from 1951 to 2006 – died Sunday at the age of 99. Here’s the picture from the Boston Globe obituary: Worse, the one in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Sheppard, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Derek Jeter, New York Times, Wall Street Journal
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What I’ll Miss About The World Cup
I’m not even a soccer fan, but I do try to catch all major sporting events, both annual and quadrennial. So I watched a lot of World Cup matches, and there are a number of things I’ll miss now that … Continue reading
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Tagged headers, Louis Vuitton, nil, trophy travel case, vuvuzelas, World Cup
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The Empire State Ben LaGuer
From Sunday’s New York Times: Staying Behind Bars on a Claim of Innocence He is either innocent or a madman. Whichever one he is, Everton Wagstaffe will not go quietly. Locked up nearly 19 years for a crime that he … Continue reading
Why The WSJ Is Still A Damn Good Newspaper
Exhibit A: Saturday’s Wall Street Journal A-hed. Hedline: Trout-Loving Artists Lament The Job That Got Away Where else will you read about Wisconsin’s exorcising the trout from its “trout stamp,” traditionally affixed to the state’s fishing licenses? Exhibit B: The Weekend … Continue reading
Republican Gunsels Association
For the past couple of months, the Republican Governors Association has run a relentless stream of TV spots sandblasting Tim Cahill, the Independent candidate for Massachusetts governor. Their latest effort is here. Not content with just pummeling Cahill, the RGA … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlie Baker, Deval Patrick, Republican Governors Association, Tim Cahill
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Verizon’s 3-D(ud) Newspaper Ad
Verizon Wireless has launched a new big-bucks ad campaign with the theme Rule the Air. Here’s their first TV spot: There’s also a newspaper component to the campaign, as evidenced in Friday’s Boston Globe, which featured a front page Rule … Continue reading
John Henning, R.I.P. (Rest In Promos)
On Thursday’s 11 pm newscast, WBZ aired a lovely and heartfelt tribute (not yet posted at this writing, but others here) to John Henning, the Boston station’s legendary anchor, reporter, and all-purpose political guru, who died Wednesday night of leukemia-related … Continue reading
Is McDonald’s Violating Massachusetts Law?
From our Late to the Party desk (via Time.com): Two weeks ago, the Center for Science in the Public Interest served McDonald’s “a notice of its intent to sue, fulfilling a legal requirement of several states in which CSPI might … Continue reading
My Marriage (Accuracy) Matters
From our Corrections Desk: In addressing the MyMarriageMatters v. AshleyMadison smackdown, the bleary eyed staff cited the wrong source behind the pro-marriage/anti-affair campaign. The ads are underwritten by Michigan divorce (!) lawyer Ryan Hill (via Above the Law), not by … Continue reading
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Tagged Above the Law, Ashley Madison, My Marriage Matters, Ryan Hill
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