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Conservative Magazine Says ‘Bill Belichick for President!’
Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, The Weekly Standard has been a standard-bearing Dump Trump hardliner. But in the magazine’s October 17th issue, contributor Geoffrey Norman proposes an actual alternative. A Real Winner Come November, I’m writing in Bill Belichick Variations on the … Continue reading
A Conversation Between Donald Trump and Abraham Lincoln
DONALD TRUMP (at a rally in Anytown, USA): Believe me, we’re going to build a beautiful Republican Party after this election – and , believe me, the Democrats will pay for it – and it will be a tremendous new … Continue reading
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Tagged @realdonaldtrump, Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Online, Donald J. Trump
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Positively 231st Street: Bob Dylan, the Bronx, and Me
In the summer of 1966, the Jack & Agnes Carrolls misguidedly moved from 89th and Third in Manhattan to Brookview Road in Windsor, CT – a town that lacked virtually everything, including sidewalks. I did not go with them. Hell, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolutely Sweet Marie, Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan, Boston Globe, Dan Kennedy, Designated Tsker, Fourth Time Around, Jo Schneider, John Lennon, Media Nation, Melbourne 1966, Mike Hogan, Misericordia Hospital, Nobel Prize in Literature, Norwegian Wood, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, Tsk Six, Ty Burr, Vanity Fair, Visions of Johanna
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Civilians Who Run Full-Page Ads in the New York Times (Umpteenth Plus Two Yoko Ono Edition)
From our Late to the Peace Party edition Over the years, the hardworking staff has dutifully chronicled the must-by-now-be-a-million-dollars Yoko Ono has spent on full-page ads in the New York Times. (Umpteenth here, Umpteenth Plus One here.) Now comes yet … Continue reading
Xavier University Hits #1 in Higher Education Rankings!
But first . . . The hardwatching staff knows it should join the rest of the chinstrokerati in commenting on last night’s presidential debate, so we’ll venture these few observations. 1. We really need a shower. 2. Anderson Cooper and … Continue reading
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Tagged Anderson Cooper, Best Colleges, chinstrokerati, CNN Money, Denzel Washington, Dominos, Donald J. Trump, Hillary Clinton, Jill Harth, Kellyanne Conway, Martha Raddatz, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Nurse Ratched, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Oxford Dictionaries, pie are round, pizza ATM, preterition, Randle McMurphy, sexual assault, Time, Trumptanic, Unstoppable, Unstoppable II
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Regal Cinemas Is Screening Clinton v. Trump II – Free For All!
So the hardworking staff opened up the old emailbag yesterday and here’s what poured out. That More Details link lists over 200 Regal Cinemas nationwide and says this: Regal Cinemas is excited to offer voters, debate teams, political science classes, or … Continue reading
Civilians Who Run Full-Page Ads in the New York Times (WellsFargoGreed Edition)
The latest in our long-running series featuring people with all those dollars and no sense Apparently it wasn’t enough that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Woodshed) blowtorched Wells Fargo (in the person of CEO John Stumpf) for its fiscal unfitness last month. Now comes this … Continue reading
Aramark’s the Spot: Humane League Targets BU Dining Service
So we received this email yesterday from an outfit called Agony at Aramark. (Full disclosure: The hardworking staff has moonlighted at Boston University for a number of years.) Dear Boston University, I represent The Humane League, a leading international animal … Continue reading
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Tagged Agony at Aramark, Aramark, Boston University, Compass Group, Huffington Post, Humane League, Sodexo, the hardeating staff
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More Ru$$ian Nesting Ads From the Grey Lady
In an understandable effort to boost ad revenues (and thereby sustain its newsgathering operation), the New York Times has increasingly blended native advertising (widely touted as the financial lifeline for media outlets) with ads in the Times print edition, as … Continue reading
Can a Trump Spokeswoman Really Be Named Jessica Ditto?
The people who speak for Donald Trump, when he’s not ridiculously speaking for himself, are coming to resemble a political version of the Star Wars Cantina scene. Start with the thoroughly hallucinogenic Katrina Pierson, who currently insists that 1) unscientific polls … Continue reading
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Tagged Alicia Machado, AlterNet, Donald J. Trump, Donald J. Trump Foundation, Hope Hicks, Jessica Ditto, Katrina Pierson, Kellyanne Conway, Latina, Lewis Carroll, Miss Housekeeping, Miss Piggy, Miss Universe, proved her muddle, Salon, Star Wars cantina scene, Through the Looking Glass, Trump charitable contributions, Washington Post
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