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Duh! o’ the Day (pat. pending)
Boston Globe pull quote in Tuesday’s front-page piece about the big shakeup at Suffolk University, which involves installing a dozen new trustees and appointing a new president: The school is expected to select [outgoing president] David Sargent’s replacement in the … Continue reading
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Tagged board of trustees, Boston Globe, David Sargent, new president, Suffolk University
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Look Up ‘Squander’ In The Dictionary . . .
. . . and you get a picture of this: Over the first three games of their series vs. the Detroit Tigers, the Yankees have gone 3-24 with runners in scoring position, and stranded 22. That’s the perfect recipe for … Continue reading
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Tagged ALDS, Detroit Tigers, Gone Fishin', New York Yankees, RISP, squander, stranded
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Red Sox Drinking Edition)
First, of course, you had the Boston Herald’s John Tomase reporting that Boston Red Sox pitchers were drinking beer in the clubhouse on their off days, which Boston Globe sportswriters (with the notable exception of Nick Cafardo) pretty much pilfered … Continue reading
Rick Perry & Thrust (Perry Defense Edition)
Not everyone is sold on the Washington Post’s stories (original and follow-up) about Rick Perry, his hunting camp, and its offensive name on a stone. From today’s New Hampshire Journal: UGLY – The Republican presidential primary contest has taken an ugly … Continue reading
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Tagged Herman Cain, hunting camp, New Hampshire Journal, Niggerhead, Rick Perry, Washington Post
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Rick Perry & Thrust (Niggerhead Edition)
Today’s New York Times breaks tradition by reporting on another paper’s scoop in a timely fashion. Specifically, yesterday’s Washington Post story about GOP presidential timebomb Rick Perry’s Texas hunting camp: Paint Creek, Tex. — In the early years of his political career, Rick … Continue reading
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Tagged GOP timebomb, New York Times, Niggerhead, Rick Perry, Washington Post
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Campaign Outsider Questionable Headline Patrol (pat. pending)
From Sunday’s Boston Globe Political Intelligence: Brown, Mass. GOP try to cast Warren as un-American The alleged evidence: In a fund-raising appeal last week, Brown campaign manager Jim Barnett highlighted a recent video in which Warren energetically argued that factory … Continue reading
Why The New York Times Is A Great Newspaper (Exhibit Umpteen)
Headline in Sunday’s dead-tree edition of the New York Times: Nowhere To Go, Except Room 516 The lede: ON Jan. 4, 2010, Raymond Fok was changing trains on his way to kidney dialysis treatment when he collapsed on the Canal Street subway platform. … Continue reading
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Tagged John Leland, Medicaid, New York Downtown, New York Times, Raymond Fok
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WSJ Tracks The Blues Of The Red Sox
Every weekend the Wall Street Journal publishes Sentiment Tracker: A Computational Analysis of the Conversation on Social Networks. And every weekend the Journal fails to post the acccompanying nifty pie charts (check the dead-tree edition) on its website. So the … Continue reading
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Tagged Red Sox Nation, Sentiment Tracker, The Blues of the Red Sox, Wall Street Journal
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Enter The Seamus Sweepstakes™ Early And Often!
Another Collins column, another cartop canine. It’s good to live in America. New York Times columnist Gail Collins – who we’ve noted previously is temperamentally incapable of mentioning Mitt Romney without adding “who once drove to Canada with the family dog … Continue reading
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Tagged cartop pooch, Gail Collins, Mitt Romney, New York Times, Seamus Sweepstakes™
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