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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Rick Perry & Thrust (Perry Defense Edition)
Not everyone is sold on the Washington Post’s stories (original and follow-up) about Rick Perry, his hunting camp, and its offensive name on a stone. From today’s New Hampshire Journal: UGLY – The Republican presidential primary contest has taken an ugly … Continue reading
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Tagged Herman Cain, hunting camp, New Hampshire Journal, Niggerhead, Rick Perry, Washington Post
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Rick Perry & Thrust (Niggerhead Edition)
Today’s New York Times breaks tradition by reporting on another paper’s scoop in a timely fashion. Specifically, yesterday’s Washington Post story about GOP presidential timebomb Rick Perry’s Texas hunting camp: Paint Creek, Tex. — In the early years of his political career, Rick … Continue reading
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Tagged GOP timebomb, New York Times, Niggerhead, Rick Perry, Washington Post
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Campaign Outsider Questionable Headline Patrol (pat. pending)
From Sunday’s Boston Globe Political Intelligence: Brown, Mass. GOP try to cast Warren as un-American The alleged evidence: In a fund-raising appeal last week, Brown campaign manager Jim Barnett highlighted a recent video in which Warren energetically argued that factory … Continue reading
Why The New York Times Is A Great Newspaper (Exhibit Umpteen)
Headline in Sunday’s dead-tree edition of the New York Times: Nowhere To Go, Except Room 516 The lede: ON Jan. 4, 2010, Raymond Fok was changing trains on his way to kidney dialysis treatment when he collapsed on the Canal Street subway platform. … Continue reading
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Tagged John Leland, Medicaid, New York Downtown, New York Times, Raymond Fok
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WSJ Tracks The Blues Of The Red Sox
Every weekend the Wall Street Journal publishes Sentiment Tracker: A Computational Analysis of the Conversation on Social Networks. And every weekend the Journal fails to post the acccompanying nifty pie charts (check the dead-tree edition) on its website. So the … Continue reading
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Tagged Red Sox Nation, Sentiment Tracker, The Blues of the Red Sox, Wall Street Journal
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Enter The Seamus Sweepstakes™ Early And Often!
Another Collins column, another cartop canine. It’s good to live in America. New York Times columnist Gail Collins – who we’ve noted previously is temperamentally incapable of mentioning Mitt Romney without adding “who once drove to Canada with the family dog … Continue reading
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Tagged cartop pooch, Gail Collins, Mitt Romney, New York Times, Seamus Sweepstakes™
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So How Did State Farm Get A Free Ad On Campaign Outsider?
When the hardworking staff went to grab this post to scale out on Twitter, we discovered this at the bottom: No idea how it got there, no idea where it went (haven’t seen it again). Certainly haven’t seen any money for it. … Continue reading
The Red Sox 99.6% Dissolution
New York Times stat-cat Nate Silver had a knee-Bucknering piece yesterday charting the Red Sox September collapse: The Boston Red Sox odds of reaching the playoffs peaked on Sept. 3. Following a 12-7 win against the Texas Rangers, they held … Continue reading
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Tagged knee-Bucknering, Nate Silver, New York Times, Red Sox, stat-cat, Tampa Bay Rays, Yankees
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New Testaments To The King James Bible
The King James Bible – the bestselling book of all time and the most quoted book in the English language – is celebrating its 400th anniversary this year. And the King James translation is hot. Start with On Eagles’ Wings: … Continue reading
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