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Pot Is Hot
All of a sudden, weed is the new black. Exhibit A: NPR’s All Things Considered umpteen-part series The New Marijuana. (Their “Seeds & Stems” installment should air in the next week or two.) Exhibit B: Sunday’s New York Times Business … Continue reading
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Tagged All Things Considered, NPR, seeds & stems, The New Marijuana
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Loonie Canada
Sunday New York Times headline: Canadians Are Agog at the Security Bill: $12 Million Per Hour Lede: Few Canadians expected that hosting world leaders at back-to-back summit meetings here this weekend would be cheap or convenient. With downtown Toronto a … Continue reading
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Tagged Group of 20, Group of 8, loonie, New York Times, Toronto, Vancouver Olympics
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Campaign Outsider’s Gala First Anniversary Edition!
Well, it’s been exactly one year since the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider started posting our daily bread crumbs on this website. And fittingly, we opened the old mailbag today to discover a copy of our very own . . … Continue reading
XXX Marks The Spot
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has had a change of heart and now believes .xxx domains for pornography sites are a good thing. And no big thing, according to proponents of the Web Red Light district … Continue reading
Columbia’s Gem
From our Late To The Party desk: Friday New York Times headline (dead tree edition): Victory for Columbia In Eminent Domain Suit Lede: New York’s highest court handed Columbia University a major victory on Thursday for its $6.3 billion plan to build … Continue reading
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Tagged Columbia University, Elaine Kagan, eminent domain, Harlem, Kelo, satellite campus, Supreme Court, Weekly Standard
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Goodnight, Irene!
Letter to the Editor in the Friday Boston Herald: Modesty for Miley Sure Reuters should have known better (“X-rated Miley $hot is a low blow,” June 21)). And Ms. Cyrus . . . they all look alike and ain’t none … Continue reading
Boston Globe Courtney Love-Fest
Professional widow Courtney Love performed this week at the House of Blues, garnering a positive review from the Boston Globe’s Sarah Rodman. It’s hard to put a finger on it, but somehow, a decade beyond a heyday when “Doll Parts’’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Courtney Love, head transplant, Joan Rivers, Sarah Rodman
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Sal DiMasi Is Still A Small-Time Fraud
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that prosecutions of honest services fraud, as the Boston Globe reports, “should be used only to prosecute cases involving bribery and kickback schemes.” That’s mother’s milk to belegaled former Massachusetts House Speaker Sal … Continue reading
Louis Vuitton’s World Cup Coup
The Most Overpriced Bag in the World is currently running a newspaper ad featuring the Most Overhyped Soccer Players in the World: Excellent! Except Pele is the quintessential has-been, Zinadine Zidane disgraced himself in the 2006 World Cup, and Maradona … Continue reading
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