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Take The Whitney Museum Tours
The Missus and I have taken a few gallery tours at the Whitney Museum lately, and they’ve been uniformly excellent – from the recent Lyonel Feininger exhibit to the current Sherrie Levine: Mayhem (through January 29) and Real/Surreal (through February … Continue reading
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Dogging Mitt Romney
The hardworking staff has recently received several comments that we’ve filed under “Seamus on Mitt Romney.” From splendid reader Laurence Glavine: “Speaking of the Noo Yawk Times: Gail Collins is definitely pranking the folks who make fun of her references … Continue reading
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Bad Sentence ‘o the Day (Charles Isherwood Edition)
Actually, a daily double from Charles Isherwood’s New York Times book review of “Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?” by Henry Alford: “The implicit promise of thorough and up-to-date instruction in how to behave isn’t entirely fulfilled by … Continue reading
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Ads ‘n’ Ends (Grand Old Parting Edition)
Now that the Gang of Seven has split up (ave atque vale Rick and Michele), let’s see where things stand with the survivors. (Production note: The hardworking staff is currently iPadlocked, so no video or links, but we’re ruminating and … Continue reading
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Boston Herald Front Page Clueless
The very definition of whistling past the graveyard: Really, guys – that’s what 25% buys you these days? Since when is a single is a home run?
Our First Quadrennial Hawkie Awards
The hardworking staff is pleased to announce Campaign Outsider’s Hawkie Awards, a quadrennial exercise in highlighting the most ridiculous aspects of the Iowa caucuses, outside of the fact that they have any impact at all. Regardless, nunc est bibendum: I’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC, Gentle Giant, Google, Hawkie Awards, Iowa, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Newtron, quarter horse, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, The Note, USA Today
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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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