Tag Archives: Wall Street Journal

When a Nation Forgets Its Own Clichés (‘Run Havoc’ Edition)

Posted on November 1, 2025 by Campaign Outsider

From our That’s Just So Sad desk Here at the Global Worldwide Headquarters, the hardtsking staff has long lamented the slow-motion decline of what used to be called “clear idiomatic English.” Unclear idiotmatic English is more like it nowadays. For … Continue reading →

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Dry Those Musketears! Xavier U Says ‘We’re Number 305!’

Posted on October 2, 2025 by Campaign Outsider

As an erstwhile Prince of the Queen City and semi-proud graduate of Xavier University (“Home of the Musketeers”), which I attended while doing a seven-year stretch in Ohio, I’ve long kept an eye on that bastion of Jesuit learning in … Continue reading →

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NYT Gets Burned by Sports Betting’s ‘Axis of Wheedle’

Posted on June 26, 2023 by Campaign Outsider

Ever since sports gambling became legal in 2018 (SCOTUS: You bet!), the hardworking staff has laid plenty of 8 to 5 that the sports book-industrial complex would go sideways in no time flat. Cue Jared Diamond’s piece in today’s Wall … Continue reading →

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WSJ Ghosts Boston Globe CEO Linda Henry on WNBA $$$

Posted on February 5, 2022 by Campaign Outsider

The Boston Globe’s Michael Silverman dutifully reported yesterday that Globe CEO Linda Henry was part of an investment group that pumped $75 million into the WNBA. Linda Henry part of $75 million investment in WNBA Ever since her young daughter … Continue reading →

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Peggy Noodnik Writes Again (Kamala Harris ‘Veep’ Edition)

Posted on December 12, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

Latest in our long-running series Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan opened up the family-size can of worms with yesterday’s piece about the various and sundry deficiencies of Vice President Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris Needs to Get Serious Her shaky … Continue reading →

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My Automotive Triumph at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

The Weekend Wall Street Journal featured this snippet about a new book by Jeffrey Milstein, Paris: From the Air, described by its publisher Rizzoli as “combining daring aerial photography with the restricted airspace over Paris [to provide] both breathtaking and … Continue reading →

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Dear Naomi Osaka, Please See Rafael Nadal Re: Mental Health

Posted on May 29, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

Women’s tennis alpha gal Naomi Osaka made news this week by announcing that she would not be talking to the press during the French Open. Tennis star Naomi Osaka says she is not going to speak to the media during … Continue reading →

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Xavier University Students & Alums Say ‘We’re Number 330!’

Posted on September 20, 2020 by Campaign Outsider

The Wall Street Journal’s College Rankings came out on Friday and – no surprise, really – Harvard came up number one. The hardworking staff, however, was more concerned with how our alma mater Xavier University (class of ’71) fared in … Continue reading →

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The Arts Seen in NYC (New! Improved? MoMA Edition)

Posted on December 30, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town to go a-museuming for a few days and say, it was swell. Just our luck, we arrived on an official Gridlock Alert Day, which meant it took us fully … Continue reading →

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South Boston’s 02210 Lands on Wall Street Journal’s ‘Rich Zips’

Posted on November 30, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

For the past several years, the hardworking staff has been largely disoriented by Boston’s Waterfront development. Every time we venture there, it seems three new high-rises have sprung up and three dozen parking spaces have disappeared. Still, we were a … Continue reading →

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