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Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, And Cleavage
(Headline courtesy of our Search Engine Optimization desk) From Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal: Tax Deal Is Shaping 2012 GOP Campaign WASHINGTON—The tax deal now before Congress has kicked off the first real debate of the 2012 Republican presidential campaign, with … Continue reading
Free The Agnostic Whatever!
During this holiday season, atheists are having their say . . . So Christians are having their say . . . From Tuesday’s New York Times: FORT WORTH — Stand on a corner in this city and you might get a … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic's prayer, bus ads, Coalition of Reason, Dallas-Fort Worth, New York Times
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Belgian Woefuls
Suddenly, Belgium: Charleroi-ling the News From Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal front page: Tour Embraces a Town’s Ugly Truth: It’s a Dump In Charleroi, Slag Heaps + Abandoned Subway = Tourist Attractions CHARLEROI, Belgium—Nicolas Buissart leads an “Urban Safari” that includes … Continue reading
RateBU.com(ments) Comment Comment
Twenty minutes after this comment was submitted about RateBU, there was this: If Justin didn’t want to deal with all the backlash from the website and focus on his studies, then he shouldn’t have created it in the first place. … Continue reading
RateBu.com(ments) Comment
Roughly 60 seconds after the hardworking staff posted RateBU.com(ments), we received this comment: Justin has been overwhelmed with finals and is trying to take down as many photos as requested. Just because he hasn’t taken down yours yet doesn’t mean … Continue reading
RateBU.com(ments)
RateBU.com, the Who’s Hot at Boston University bakeoff site, turns out to be as unresponsive as it is sexist. (Yeah yeah – it now features men as well as women, but that’s just equal-opportunity sexism.) (Previous post and hardworking staff … Continue reading
The Redemption Unit
Sunday’s Boston Globe launched a three-part series by the formidable Patricia Wen on the federal government’s $10 billion Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability program for children. The piece describes the origins of the program this way: The federal disability program … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Patricia Wen, Supplemental Security Income, The Redemption Unit
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Peggy Noodnik Watch (pat. pending)
Peggy Noonan’s Wall Street Journal column this week takes Barack Obama to task for “[spending] his first year losing the center, which elected him, and his second losing his base, which is supposed to provide his troops.” Nut graf, regarding … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Krauthammer, NoonanWorld, Obama tax policy, Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
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Brown Stoning
First, Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown (R-Hey, It Was Just a Procedural Vote) got suckered. Then he got sucker-punched. Start with Brown’s vote against repealing the federal government’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy regarding gays in the military. From Friday’s … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (City Hall Plaza Edition)
In Thursday’s Boston Herald (and not in Thursday’s Boston Globe): Hub planners envision more vibrant City Hall Boston’s Government Center Plaza, reviled as an eyesore for decades, could be transformed into an oasis where skaters could frolic, cosmopolitan strollers could … Continue reading
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