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Author Archives: Campaign Outsider
Q: Hey, What’s This? A: The Stanley Cup Finals
As almost always happens in these situations, a lucky bounce settled the score. The Vancouver Canucks (a name the Three Stooges would have especially loved) won Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals in double overtime on a play that … Continue reading
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Tagged San Jose Sharks, Sharkburner, USA Today, Vancouver Canucks, Western Conference Finals
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Toles Newters Gingrich
From the great Tom Toles, Washington Post editorial cartoonist: My word!
That’s Just So Girly! (Tom Brady Edition)
Tom Brady, Girlyman (Part Umpteen). Via Monday’s Boston Herald Inside Track: Tom & Gi’s wild ride Wwwwwweeeeeeeeee! New England Patriots [team stats] QB/QT Tom Brady[stats] scored some alone time with his beauteous bikini-clad Brazilian bride Gisele Bundchen in Los Cabos, Mexico, over the weekend. And what … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Herald, girly, Gisele Bundchen, Inside Track, Tom Brady
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Doug Rubin Edition)
As the corruption trial of former Massachusetts House Speaker Sale DiMasi proceeds apace, it’s instructive to track the coverage in Boston’s two dailies. From Monday’s Boston Globe: The witnesses expected this week include David Simas, a White House adviser and … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Cognos, Deval Patrick, Doug Rubin, Sale DiMasi
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NYT Gags On Brit Gag Order
Is it just me or is there something odd about this piece in today’s New York Times: Free Speech on Twitter Faces Test SAN FRANCISCO — What began as seamy gossip about an affair between a famous British soccer player … Continue reading
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Tagged British super-injunction, forbes.com, New York Times, the Sunday Herald, Twitter
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Dead Blogging Katie Couric’s BU Commencement Address
So after Boston University had conferred honorary doctorates on Frank (Always Color Inside the Lines) Stella, Nina (Proud BU Dropout) Totenberg, and Jacques (The Most Cookin’ Professor) Pépin, it was Katie, BU the Door. Introduced as someone who had scaled … Continue reading
Anyone You Know Been Raptured?
Even America’s Heartland can’t take heart in predictions of YESTERDAY’S endtimes. From The Oklahoman: Prediction of world’s end is premature — again OAKLAND, Calif. — They spent months warning the world of the apocalypse, some giving away their belongings or … Continue reading
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Tagged Family Radio, Harold Camping, NewsOK, premature, The Oklahoman, The Rapture, world's end
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LinkedIn Links Don’t Sync
LinkedIn, the adult version of Facebook, went public this week and its IPO was boffo, as the Weekend Wall Street Journal summarized: LinkedIn’s shares more than doubled in their first day of trading, setting the stage for debuts from other … Continue reading
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Tagged buzzworthy, IPO, Joe Nocera, LinkedIn, New York Times, slingstock, Wall Street Journal
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Robert Browning Automatic
Lede of New York Times movie critic A.O. Scott’s review of Woody Allen’s new film, “Midnight in Paris:” The definitive poem in English on the subject of cultural nostalgia may be a short verse by Robert Browning called “Memorabilia.” It … Continue reading
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Tagged A.O. Scott, Memorabilia, Midnight in Paris, New York Times, Robert Browning, SparkNotes, Woody Allen
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