Author Archives: Campaign Outsider

Ad o’ the Day (pat. pending)

For the past  two decades, I’ve had the distinct pleasure of blanking Barney Frank in his reelection campaigns for 4th District Congressman from Massachusetts. So imagine my surprise when I received a “Barney Frank for Congress” newsletter in the mail … Continue reading

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Time Magazine’s Ted K.O.

The cover of Time’s Ted Kennedy Commemorative Issue features a photo that made him look dead while he was still alive. No surprise, the photographer was the uni-named Platon, who also embalmed John McCain on a Time cover during last year’s … Continue reading

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The Boston Globe’s Richard Egan Problem

The suicide of Richard Egan, co-founder of technology giant EMC Corp., may be understandable given his terminal illness, but the Boston Globe’s coverage of it is entirely befuddling. Initially, the Globe missed – or ignored – the actual cause of … Continue reading

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Ad o’ the Day©

Mike Allen’s Playbook at Politico.com has been a leader in online political-digest promotion, teaming up with companies such as Starbucks and Qualcomm in a variety of marketing initiatives. (See: Politico’s series of political-thumbsucker panel discussions at Starbucks locations across D.C.) … Continue reading

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Crayonpedia

Wikipedia, which is to reference materials what Amy Winehouse is to singing gigs, is about to introduce color-coding to its three million entries. According to a report at Wired.com: Starting this fall, you’ll have a new reason to trust the … Continue reading

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Change We Can . . . Afford

New school year, new wardrobe.

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Ad o’ the Day®

Interesting to see who ran memorial ads for Ted Kennedy. The Boston Globe house ad last week and Sunday’s Massachusetts Hospital Association ad (“One man can make all the difference”) make sense, but what about last week’s Lockheed Martin ad … Continue reading

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Not to Get Technical About It . . .

The Sunday Boston Globe piece summarizing summer movies featured this subhed: Even in the silly season you can learn a lot from what clicked, what stiffed, and what surprised I thought the expression was “get /got stiffed.” Paging Jan Freeman, paging … Continue reading

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Second Shot

From Sunday’s Boston Globe: Richard J. Egan, the billionaire entrepreneur who cofounded data storage provider EMC Corp. and served as US ambassador to Ireland, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Friday, according to a law enforcement officer with knowledge of … Continue reading

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Ad o’ the Day™

Peggy Noonan’s latest Wall  Street Journal column (headline: “The Reagans and the Kennedys”) recalls Ronald Reagan’s speech at a 1985 fundraiser for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, “which at the time was relatively new and the only presidential library … Continue reading

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