December 2008
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Sarah Palin will ride gossip mags to the top of...
Seriously, folks: Alaska’s newspaper of record, the Anchorage Daily News, just got scooped by People magazine on the birth of Governor Sarah Palin’s news grandson, Tripp. The little baby boy, offspring of the not yet married Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston, has been hiding in his mother’s womb longer than his previously reported due date of the Saturday before Christmas. Now...
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Childhood's End
So much of having a fun time with Ma and Pa and Sis and Bro playing board games! The Game of Life now includes anxiety-inducing debit/credit card-like things, and other “classic” board games are being transformed because American youngsters and their parents lack the attention span/don’t have enough time to play them, says the Wall Street Journal:
It is no coincidence that board games become...
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Washingtonniene costume change, WTF!?
America’s favorite former legislative assistant got married. But something in the story here isn’t holding up. In contrast to the photo I stole from the Daily Beast to the right in which the now Mrs. Jessica Cutler appears alongside her husband, Sheila McClear described her Monday in the Observer in very different tones:
On Monday, Dec. 8, at 5 p.m., a diminutive woman in a tasteful...
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Finnish evangelism from the Obama...
October 18, 2008 was a much simpler day in this American life. John McCain was on the campaign trail, touting his support from Joe the Plumber, who would single-handedly deliver every swing state with a Joe Six Pack undecided voter into his column. At the time, John McCain delivered a radio ad in which he accused Obama of being a European socialist (that’s the MP3 file, here’s the transcript)....
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GOP to work overtime on driving Latinos away
Arlen Specter has signaled to Republicans that it’s going to be open season on Eric Holder, Barack Obama’s pick to be the America’s next Attorney General (and also the first black man in the job) when confirmation hearings begin next year. TPMMuckraker has the details. What Zachary and Josh company leave out is this bit of reporting from Ross Goldberg, my former colleague at the...
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Valerie Jarrett's decision to declare herself "not... →
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WatchBarack Obama wants to give everyone in America free internet so we can watch him on Saturday, and watch puppies the rest of the time.
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The Tribune’s bankruptcy is as much of a perfect...
In the almost-post-Bush-era, you’d think Sam Zell might be a little more careful with the metaphors he selects, like this one in his memo to Tribune Company employees, reprinted in the Los Angeles Times:
So, how did we get here? It has been, to say the least, the perfect storm. A precipitous decline in revenue and a tough economy have coupled with a credit crisis, making it extremely difficult...
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Is it now possible that a news organization could... →
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I wonder how the suits at IAC feel about Tina... →
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Hillary lets us down
I think this bit from this Post article explains perfectly why Clinton’s ascent to Secretary of State is such a letdown:
But the governor, who has the sole authority to name a new senator, was also said to be concerned that Kennedy, whom friends call “quiet and non-assertive,” doesn’t have the personality to be an aggressive fighter in the Senate on behalf of the...
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Laura Rozen asks: time for a WPA for... →
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For whom the fare box tolls
From your wallet, to someone else’s, says the Daily News:
The commission “found a way to reduce the fare increases to 8% by distributing the responsibility among all those who use the service,” Paterson said.
The $2 base subway fare would still likely rise - but by 50 cents, not the $1 jump that could come if there’s no infusion of new funds.
Increases to unlimited-ride...
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WatchApparently this episode of The Simpsons got to Barack Obama because now he is using a Zune. I bet Phil de Vellis is feeling pretty dumb now.
MSFT is rallying to a close after slumping through much of the afternoon. I’m just saying.
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“Commerce Secretary is a pretty good job.”
– President-elect Brack Obama on nominating Governor Bill Richardson for a job whose current occupant you can’t name.
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Why go freelance when you can go staff?
Someone (John Koblin of the New York Observer) finally put together that the Daily Beast has become a redoubt for a number of my former co-workers at the New York Sun. Actually, he’s really noting that if there is anything left in the budget after paying Tucker Carlson to advocate for pardoning war criminals, the Daily Beast might pay you as much as $350 if you write something that catches...
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“The former governor, in an interview, suggested he found the whole idea pompous....”
– The Times’s Danny Hakim interviews former Governor Mario Cuomo on why he won’t sit for his official portrait.
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I saw the frowny face in the sky on my way home,... →
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The recession is on us, not just because the NBER... →
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