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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Mitt Romney: 100% Irony Deficient
From ABC’s The Note yesterday: MITT ROMNEY RALLY GETS OCCUPIED. A dispatch from ABC’s Emily Friedman from Clive, Iowa: For the first time since launching his presidential campaign, Mitt Romney got a visit from Occupy Wall Street protestors during a rally Monday … Continue reading
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Tagged 100& irony deficient, ABC, Mitt Romney, self-awareness, The Note
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What Dogs Hear In The GOP Presidential Primary
Blah blah blah blah Mitt Romney is not good enough blah blah blah blah Mitt Romney is Mr. Good Enough blah blah blah blah Newt Gingrich is dead blah blah blah blah Newt Gingrich is still alive blah blah blah … Continue reading
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Tagged Gary Larson, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum
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New York Observer Has A Personal Problem
Lede from a New York Observer piece on a personnel shift at the New York Times: New York Times reporter Sarah Maslin Nir has announced the end of her Metro section nightlife column, The Nocturnalist. “This is our final column,” Ms. Nir … Continue reading
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Tagged New York Observer, New York Times, Sarah Maslin Nir, Sybil, The Nocturnalist, third-person plural
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NYT Wordnixes WSJ
Sunday’s New York Times Business section featured a piece about “Wordnik, the vast online dictionary.” The lexisite works not like a modern-day Samuel Johnson or Noah Webster, the Times piece says, but like this: [A]utomatic programs search the Internet, combing the … Continue reading
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Tagged Erin McKean, lexisite, New York Times, Timesniks, Wall Street Journal, Wordnik
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Brookline Crèche Crook: The Incriminating Photos
The sad state of affairs at St. Mary of the Assumption in Brookline Village: Time for the Amber Alert? Photo credit: The Missus
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Tagged Amber Alert, Brookline, crèche crook, St. Mary of the Assumption
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Geez! Someone Snatched Jesus Of Brookline Village!
There’s a crèche crook at large in the Brookline area, someone who apparently made a New Year’s resolution to steal the Baby Jesus from the Nativity scene at St. Mary of the Assumption. That’s cold – especially since it’s the … Continue reading
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Tagged Baby Jesus, Brookline, crèche crook, Messiah mugger, Nativity scene, St. Mary of the Assumption
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Happy New Year!
The hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider’s Global Worldwide Headquarters thanks all of our splendid readers for their forbearance and comments this past year, and wishes you a happy and prosperous 2012. Cheers!
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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Huntsman’s Destiny Edition)
Headline on this week’s Peggy Noonan Wall Street Journal column: Gingrich Is Making Romney Better Next week’s headline: Huntsman Is Making Romney Battered That will largely be thanks to Our Destiny, a Super PAC backing GOP presidential afterthought Jon Huntsman … Continue reading
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Tagged Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney, New York Times, Newt Gingrich, Our Destiny PAC, Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
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