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Monthly Archives: February 2014
‘Dr. Evil’ Strikes Again
Washington lobbyist Rick Berman – a.k.a. Dr. Evil – is up to his usual tricks with a full-page ad in yesterday’s New York Times. Campaign Outsider Potemkin Front Group Index™: 2 Two wit: Minimumwage.com, and The Employment Policies Institute. … Continue reading
NYT Website Is Propaganda!
New York Times homepage, Thursday morning one o’clock: Truth is, it’s not really the Russians (The Americans Division) who’ve overrun the Times website. It’s the Hessians (Advertising Battalion).
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Tagged FX, Hessians (Advertising Battalion), New York Times, Russians, The Americans
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Fifty Years After: That Cassius Clay/Sonny Listless Fight
Swell piece in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal recapping the classic 1964 heavyweight bout between Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston. Clay-Liston: The Fight That Made Muhammad Ali A Half Century Ago, a Brash Youngster Named Cassius Clay Beat Sonny Liston and Started … Continue reading
Dead Blogging the Massachusetts Gubernatorial Non-Debate at JFK Jr. Forum
So the hardworking staff hied us to the International House of Politics last night to catch A Special Event with Democratic Candidates for Massachusetts Governor, which was definitely not a debate featuring Joseph Avellone, Donald Berwick, Martha Coakley, Steven Grossman, and Juliette Kayyem. (Daniel Ki was … Continue reading
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Tagged A Special Event with Democratic Candidates for Massachusetts Governor, Daniel Ki, Donald Berwick, Groundhog Day, Harold Ramis, Harvard Institute of Politics, International House of Politics, JFK Jr. Forum, Joseph Avellone, Juliette Kayyem, Martha Coakley, Mirtha Coakley, Steven Grossman, That's all folks, the Steven Spielberg of comedy
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Our New! Exclusive! NYT First-World-Problem Chronicles™ (Naples Dog Poop Edition)
The New York Times is a past master at reporting FWPs (First-World-Problems). Exhibit Umpteen from Sunday’s edition: A Forensic Approach to a Sidewalk Nuisance Naples, Using DNA Left at the Scene, Cracks Down on Dog Waste NAPLES, Italy — Problems? … Continue reading
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Tagged dog poop, first world problems, FWP, Naples, Neapolitans, New York Times, Tommaso Sodano, vice mayor
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There’s Crying/No Crying in the Corporate Workplace!
As the hardwalking staff headed home last night, we heard this report by Ashley Milne-Tyte on APM’s Marketplace. Is it getting easier to show emotions at work? We all spend a lot of time at work. Sometimes stuff happens that drives … Continue reading
That’s Just So Mean! (Martha Coakley Edition)
Page Six of Thursday’s Boston Herald: C’mon, Heraldniks: We know you don’t like Mirtha, but really – was it necessary to roll out the PoreCam this early? Why not keep your powder dry for a while? (Meanwhile, memo … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Herald, Heraldniks, Martha Coakley, Mirtha, welfare reform
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