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Monthly Archives: December 2010
The Redemption Unit
Sunday’s Boston Globe launched a three-part series by the formidable Patricia Wen on the federal government’s $10 billion Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability program for children. The piece describes the origins of the program this way: The federal disability program … Continue reading
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Peggy Noodnik Watch (pat. pending)
Peggy Noonan’s Wall Street Journal column this week takes Barack Obama to task for “[spending] his first year losing the center, which elected him, and his second losing his base, which is supposed to provide his troops.” Nut graf, regarding … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Krauthammer, NoonanWorld, Obama tax policy, Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
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Brown Stoning
First, Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown (R-Hey, It Was Just a Procedural Vote) got suckered. Then he got sucker-punched. Start with Brown’s vote against repealing the federal government’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy regarding gays in the military. From Friday’s … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (City Hall Plaza Edition)
In Thursday’s Boston Herald (and not in Thursday’s Boston Globe): Hub planners envision more vibrant City Hall Boston’s Government Center Plaza, reviled as an eyesore for decades, could be transformed into an oasis where skaters could frolic, cosmopolitan strollers could … Continue reading
Now Comes (Judith) Miller Time
Jailbird Judy Miller had an op-ed piece in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal deconstructing the new movie “Fair Game” about the White House’s outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Lede: I went to jail in the summer of 2005 to protect … Continue reading
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Tagged Fair Game, Judith Miller, Valerie Plame, Wall Street Journal
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Brubeck Wreck
Earlier this week the hardworking staff said it would record the new Dave Brubeck documentary – Dave Brubeck, In His Own Sweet Way – produced by Clint Eastwood. We also said we would dig out tape of our 1970s interview … Continue reading
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Tagged ArtsJournal, Bud Collins, Clint Eastwood, Dave Brubeck, Mary Lou Williams, Red Auerbach
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And The Winner Of The Great iPad Blogging App Bakeoff Is . . .
I dunno. The hardscratching-its-head staff is still trying to figure out how to do basic stuff on the iPad’s WordPress and BlogPress apps. We’ll keep you posted.
The Great iPad Blogging App Bakeoff (BlogPress Division)
Item: Obama Kicks How many lefties wish that this was real: (Couldn’t insert video on iPad, but here it is) – Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
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The Great iPad Blogging App Bakeoff (WordPress Division)
Item: Parker Spitz Trouble in CNNLand – Kathleen Parker is all lathered up over co-host Eliot Spitzer’s alpha-dog act on their struggling squawk show. So she’s reducing her workload at the Washington Post from two columns a week to one. … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging app bakeoff, Eliot Spitzer, Kathleen Parker, Wordpress
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (RateBU.com Edition)
(Disclosure: 1) I’ve been a full-time professor at Boston University for the past 5 1/2 years; 2) I’ve never voted on RateBU.com.) From Wednesday’s Boston Globe: Website lets BU women be rated; many object A new website allowing Boston … Continue reading
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