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Tag Archives: Wall Street Journal
PETA Actually Runs A Humane Ad
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is the Ron Paul of advocacy groups: Too extreme for the average American, who might sympathize with their positions but can’t abide their tactics. The difference: PETA has shown occasional flashes of rationality, … Continue reading
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Tagged adopt, Cannes Film Festival, Huffington Post, Omar Von Muller, PETA, shelter dog, The Artist, Uggie, Wall Street Journal
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You Should Just Set Your Money On Fire (Knights Of Columbus Edition)
Yesterday the Knights of Columbus ran this full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal as part of its Civility in America campaign: The KofC also ran this ad in USA Today: Memo to the fine folks at the Knights of … Continue reading
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Tagged Civility in America, Knights of Columbus, KofC, USA Today, Wall Street Journal
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Great American Sportswriter Lists Lack Heinz Sight
Two recent pieces (not to be confused with Reese’s Pieces) about American sportswriters have excluded one name from the roll call of the best at their craft: W.C. Heinz, Heavyweight Champion of the Word as Jeff MacGregor dubbed him in a … Continue reading
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Tagged A.J. Liebling, Brownsville Bum, Damon Runyon, Frank Deford, George Plimpton, Heavyweight Champion of the Word, Jeff MacGregor, Jim Murray, Jimmy Breslin, Last King of the Sports Page, New York Times, Nicholas Dawidoff, Once They Heard the Cheers, Red Smith, Ring Lardner, Roger Angell, Sports Illustrated, The Professional, W.C. Heinz, Wall Street Journal
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Bald-Faced Lies o’ the Day (Bipartisan Presidential Campaign Edition)
From Wall Street Journal columnist Holman W. Jenkins Jr.’s latest offering: Reflecting the political profession’s contempt for the public it’s trying to influence, Team Obama has been shouting through the cognoscenti media that now is the time to “define Romney … Continue reading
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Tagged AlterNet, felony, Holman W. Jenkins Jr., Mitt Romney, Obama campaign, Politico, Stephanie Cutter, tax returns, Wall Street Journal
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London Olympics Five-Ring Circus (G4S Insecurity Services Edition)
The upcoming London Olympic Games are a disaster waiting to happen, from their inexplicable Olympics tower to their inexcusable security shortfall. From the Wall Street Journal: Security Shortfall Spotlights British Firm U.K. security firm G4S PLC faced an onslaught of criticism on Friday … Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal Finally Catches Up With Campaign Outsider (Rhyme-onyms Edition)
Two-and-a-half-years ago, the hardworking staff posted this: Rhyme-onyms Posted on March 29, 2010 First: I yield to no man in my respect and affection for my students at Boston University. Second: During my five years as a mass communication professor … Continue reading
Jason Gay Has Strawberries And Cream With Bud Collins
Venerable tennis savant Bud Collins couldn’t be in the house for Sunday’s gentlemen’s finals at the All England Club (ruptured quad tendon), so estimable Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay was in Collins’s Brookline house to view it with him. … Continue reading
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Tagged All England Club, Brookline, Bud Collins, Jason Gay, strawberries and cream, Wall Street Journal, Wimbledon
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There’ll Always Be An America (Heart Attack Grill Edition)
With apologies to the New Yorker’s There’ll Always Be an England series From Monday’s Wall Street Journal: Order Up a Heart Attack New York can have its own (kosher) version of a heart attack on bread, a U.S. judge has … Continue reading
More Loving Memories Of Joseph Anthony Welteroth, U.S. Navy
Turns out the sons (Joseph, Michael, Gregory and Jacob) of World War II Pacific theater seaman/poet Joseph Anthony Welteroth didn’t just run six-figures’ worth of full-page ads in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, as the hardworking staff … Continue reading
Drew Pinsky Did Stealth Doctoring For Glaxo
This past week the U.S. Justice Department reached a “$3 billion criminal and civil settlement with Glaxo over illegal drug marketing and other matters,” the Wall Street Journal reported. ‘Dr. Drew’ Was Paid by Glaxo Radio Host Extolled Virtues of Antidepressant … Continue reading
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