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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Globe Biden Its Time?)

The Herald takes it to Joe Biden today. The Globe takes it easy. Details at IGTLTDT.  

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Finally! Mr. September Makes A Contribution! (Our Gala 2500th Post Edition)

Alex Rodriguez, the Skunk at the Yanks’ Garden Party, didn’t stink up the joint at the Big Ballpark last night because Raul Ibanez pinch-hit for him in the bottom of the ninth and did this:   And then in the … Continue reading →

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Let The Whatever-Billion-Dollar Rumpus Begin! (Poetry And Pros Edition)

Michael Scherer waxes lyrical at Time’s Swampland blog: AFP Brings Poetry To Political Boob Tube Politicians are supposed to campaign in poetry and govern in prose. But political advertising this cycle has been, for the most part, a bunch of … Continue reading →

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Herald To Globe: Wrong, Baby, Wrong)

Dennis Lehane is all lathered up, according to the Boston Herald’s Track Gals (and Megan!), because a Boston Globe review of his latest book, Live By Night, implied that he’s a racist. At least that’s how Lehane reads it. Details … Continue reading →

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Sarah Palin’s Big Makeover (Big Deal)

From our State of the Union Regress desk: New York magazine’s The Cut blog (tip o’ the pixel to the Missus): Sarah Palin’s Hollywood Makeover: Frosted Lips, Hair Migrating south from her native tundra to the relative tropics of L.A., … Continue reading →

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Three From The Note

From ABC’s The Note, a trifecta of third-party ads: NRA: National Rifle Advertising “After the National Rifle Association endorsed Mitt Romney for president last Thursday, the group has aired its first TV ad of the 2012 election season attacking President … Continue reading →

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Correction o’ the Day (Corrugated Metal Fence Edition)

From Tuesday’s New York Times: NEW YORK An article in some editions on Sunday about the discovery of a child’s remains in his family’s backyard on Long Island misidentified the kind of fence that was beside the makeshift grave where the remains … Continue reading →

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Let’s All Go To The Lobby . . . )

Influence peddling is the order of the day at Boston’s local dailies. Details at IGTLTDT.  

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The Skunk At The Yanks’ Garden Party (Let’s Swing At Ball Four! Edition)

Yankee Killer Alex Rodriguez did it again last night, fanning for the last out on what was decidedly ball four in Game 2 of the ALDS between New York and Baltimore.   Before you start barking at the hardgrudging staff, let’s … Continue reading →

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The Blogola Watch® (Fashion/Shopping Division)

From our Pay to Plug desk: Fashion/Lifestyle bloggers are engaged in some serious buckraking – from $5000 to $50,000 – for flacking designers and brands, and the blogees are starting to rebel. Details at Sneak Adtack.    

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