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Monthly Archives: October 2019
GateHouse Media’s Free-Rent Sweepstakes a Gate-and-Switch
Imagine the hardworking staff’s delight when we received an email from GateHouse Media with the subject line Win a Mortgage-Free or Rent-Free Year! Excellent! (We’ll pass over in silence the inconvenient fact that up to $15,000 would … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo Global Management, Cox Enterprises, FCC, Gannett, GateHouse Media, Journal Star, New York Post
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Made Yankee Fan in Boston: In Houston They Had a Problem
Game 6 of the 2019 American League Championship Series was a case study in Just What You Expected. Let’s start from the beginning: In the bottom of the 1st, Chad (The Arsonist) Green gave up a three-run homer to Yuri … Continue reading
Made Yankee Fan in Boston: Goin’ Back to Houston, Houst . . .
Yesterday, in our dour assessment of the New York Yankees’ performance in the 2019 ALCS, we said oy. Today we turn to this old Jewish proverb: One chops wood, the other says Hey! That’s our cue: Hey! The Yankees staved off … Continue reading
So Far the Yankees Have Folded Like Origami in the ALCS
As a Made Yankee Fan in Boston for the past 45 years, it pains me to say that the 2019 New York Yankees – easily the most likable squad in recent memory – have been their worst selves in this … Continue reading
Newly Renovated MoMA Is Museum of Modern Arguing
From our Beaten to Death with Croutons desk Here’s what everyone can agree on: New York’s Museum of Modern Art will unveil its four-month, $450 million, 47,000-square-foot expansion on October 21st. Beyond that, it’s strictly an art critic slapfight. Let’s … Continue reading
Trump Is a Chump™ (WSJ Trump Hotels Advertising Edition)
First, let’s stipulate that Donald Trump is the least self-aware U.S. president since post-stroke Woodrow Wilson. Let’s also stipulate that the Cheeto-in-Chief is more transactional than your neighborhood ATM. As one observer noted, Trump has no standards and no principles … Continue reading
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Tagged Cheeto-in-Chief, Donald Trump, post-stroke, Trump Hotels, Wall Street Journal, Woodrow Wilson
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