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Mitt Romney: U.S. Senate Hopeful, U.S. Senate Huckster (3)
Latest in our ever-expanding series As someone said about the blizzard of Barackaphernalia at the 2008 Obama inauguration, “When Americans want to celebrate, they turn to merchandise.” But Mitt Romney (R-Wherever) is getting downright pushy about merchandising in his nascent … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Dan Wasserman, Mitt Romney, R-Wherever, Romney for Utah, Seamus
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Mitt Romney: U.S. Senate Hopeful, U.S. Senate Huckster (2)
Second in what we expect will be an endless series In his three-day-old journey to become the junior – at 70! – senator from Utah, Mitt Romney (R-Wherever) has already solidified his bid to represent the merchandising wing of the … Continue reading
Mitt Romney: U.S. Senate Hopeful, U.S. Senate Huckster
Well, that didn’t take long. Yesterday Mitt Romney (R-Wherever) threw his top hat into the Utah Senate race with this tweet. And, apparently, to sell some merchandise, because about five minutes later this email landed in the hardworking staff’s inbox. … Continue reading
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Tagged Mitt Romney, R-Wherever, Romney for Utah, Utah Senate race, Utahns
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David St. Hubbins Was Way Out Front the Current Curling Craze
If you splendid readers have any doubts that curling is all the rage among Olympic sports, this Kansas City Star piece by Pete Granthoff should quell them. Mr. T loves watching Olympic curling. ‘You heard me, curling Fool!’ Like clockwork, the sport … Continue reading
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Tagged 2018 Olympics, curling, David St. Hubbins, ESPN, Jason Gay, Kansas City Star, Mr. T, Pete Grathoff, Spinal Tap, SportsCenter, Wall Street Journal
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Where in the World Is Janet Langhart? Back on Tour with Anne Frank & Emmett Till
The hardworking staff is certain you splendid readers remember Janet Langhart (currently Janet Langhart Cohen), whose Boston resumé includes a 1981 stint on WCVB’s “Five All Night” with Matt Siegel – and a bonus Robin Young cameo (at 3:57). … Continue reading
Dead Blogging ‘Georgia O’Keeffe’ at Peabody Essex Museum
Well the Missus and I trundled up to Salem the other day to catch Georgia O’Keeffe: Art, Image, Style at the Peabody Essex Museum and, say, it was swell. (Full disclosure: Neither of us is all that crazy about O’Keeffe’s … Continue reading
Sacklers Buy More ‘Adulgences’ for Triggering the Opioid Crisis
As the hardtsking staff has previously noted, there’s ample evidence that the fabulously wealthy Sackler family, which unleashed OxyContin on an unsuspecting American public, played a key role in the country’s current opioid crisis. And yet . . . Their … Continue reading
Strange Adfellows for Net Neutrality: AT&T and . . . Burger King?
As the rumpus over the fate of net neutrality continues, it’s not just 21 states and the District of Columbia pushing back against the FCC decision to neuter neutrality. It’s also advertisers. Exhibit AT&T: This full-page ad that’s been running … Continue reading
Donald Trump’s Hooded Father Got Busted at a 1927 Klan Riot
From our Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree desk As the world wonders whether the president of the United Staes is a racist, the hardworking staff was reminded of Adam Hochschild’s piece in the New York Review of Books last … Continue reading
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Tagged 1927, Adam Hochschild, Donald Trump, Felix Harcourt, Fred Trump, Ku Klux Klan, Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s, Linda Gordon, Mike Pearl, New York Review of Books, New York Times, snopes.com, The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition, Trump racist, Vice
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