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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Arts Seen In The Big Town (Whitney Biennial Edition)
Good day in the Big Town for me and the Missus. Some of what we saw: * “Impact: 50 Years of the Council of Fashion Designers of America” at FIT (through April 17). If a camel is a horse designed … Continue reading
Elizabeth Warren Gets Decisive
So Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren (D-I Got Your $336.99 Right Here) has finally decided which charity incumbent Sen. Scott Brown (R-I Got Your $336.99 Right Here) should contribute to for violating their People’s Pledge to keep independent political groups out … Continue reading
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Tagged autism, Elizabeth Warren, People's Pledge, Scott Brown, TechPresident
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Super PACmania
Smart front-page piece in Friday’s Boston Globe about the GOP presidential PACmary race. (Sorry no links – we’re iPadlocked.) Spending tally: Pro-Romney Restore Our Future: $33.8 million. Pro-Gingrich Winning Our Future: $16.1 million. Pro-Santorum Red White and Blue Fund: Not … Continue reading
Arts Seen In The Big Town
Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town and our first stop was The Armory Show at Piers 92 and 94. And it is a 10. There were 228 dealers there (according to the New York Times … Continue reading
Elizabeth Warren Can’t Make Up Her Mind
The hardworking staff noted yesterday that U.S. Sen. Scott Brown (R-Got Any Cash on You?) owed $336.99 to the charity of Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Gotcha!) choice for this violation of their People’s Pledge to keep third-party money out of their electoral … Continue reading
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Tagged Campaign Outsider Fund, CAPE PAC, Elizabeth Warren, People's Pledge, Scott Brown, TechPresident
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NYT Bows To Pressure, Bars Campaign Outsider
When we last left the dogged opinion-mongering (or is that mongreling?) of Gail Collins, the hardworking staff had posted a comment on the New York Times website protesting her exclusion of our excellent Seamus Sweepstakes™ from yesterday’s column and said … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Burns, Brian Dawson, Buzzfeed, Dave Weigel, Gail Collins, New York Times, Seamus Swepstakes™, Twitter
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Tikkun Is Now Officially Stalking The Hardworking Staff
Hard on the heels of Tikkun’s email blitz promoting its full-page ad in Wednesday’s New York Times (duly noted by the hardworking staff yesterday) comes a second wave of emails imploring us to interview editor Michael Lerner. Exhibit Amail: On … Continue reading
Hey, Gail Collins: Who’s Dogging Who At This Point?
Campaign Outsider headline, October 20, 2011: Gail Collins Back To Dogging Mitt Romney Gail Collins headline, March 8, 2012: Dogging Mitt Romney Are we soulmates or what? So how come Collins doesn’t mention our excellent Seamus Sweepstakes™ in today’s column, which starts … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Gail Collins, Mitt Romney, Neil Swidey, New York Times, Seamus, Seamus Sweepstakes
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Tikkun Goes On The Anti-Warpath
The hardworking staff has a new pen pal: Tikkun, which describes itself as “A Jewish Magazine, an Interfaith movement.” We received not one, but two emails yesterday urging us to interview Tikkun editor Michael Lerner. From email #1: I’m writing … Continue reading
Great Scott! Brown To Pony Up $336.99
Say, that People’s Pledge between Scott Brown (R-Don’t Tase Me, Bro!) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Your Charity Goes Here) really has some teeth, yeah? An outfit called Coalition of Americans for Political Equality (CAPE) PAC launched an online advertising campaign supporting … Continue reading
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Tagged CAPE PAC, Elizabeth Warren, MassLive, People's Pledge, Scott Brown
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