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The Decline of Baseball and mathematical reasoning

Monday, October 15, 2007

According to Selena Roberts of the New York Times, football is up and baseball’s in decline. As a confirmed baseball fan who has zero interest in football, I am somewhat sanguine about this prediction, since, at my advanced age, I can recall similar predictions that were made 30 years ago. That being said, she has […]

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A great newspaper slowly dies

Friday, October 12, 2007

It was a sad day when the Hartford Courant was purchased by the Los Angeles Times empire, but a sadder day still, apparently, when the Times sold itself a few months back. These things happen gradually, but it has lately dawned on me that this once proud paper, the oldest in the nation, is descending […]

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The Times to American Workers: Suck it up, Wal-Mart needs cheap goods

Monday, October 8, 2007

The Editors of the Time are encouraging Democrats to heed the sages in their midst, who are telling them that they simply must approve free trade agreements with Peru, Panama and Columbia (Democrats Talk Sense to Democrats). The Times throws in South Korea for good measure. It is, of course, conventional wisdom among the wise […]

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The Day drinks the Petreaus Kool-Aid

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

In an effort to prove that they are very serious people, the Day has opined that despite its belief that we should end our military involvement in Iraq, we should not in fact end our military involvement in Iraq. We should, as the editorial is titled GIVE NEW IRAQ STRATEGY TIME. This editorial deserves to […]

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The Times does guilt by association

Thursday, September 6, 2007

The New York Times appears to have bestowed a new name on Norman Hsu. He is now Clinton Donor Norman Hsu. It matters not, of course, that there is not a whisper of a hint that Clinton has anything to do with whatever crimes Hsu may have committed. Wouldn’t it be nice if the Times […]

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Friday night music-the Clash

Friday, August 31, 2007

Know your rights [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPeWSpB_7w4[/youtube]

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Absolutely unbelievable

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Buzzflash’s Media Putz of the Week just has to get maximum publicity, so let me add my mite. Erin Burnett of CNBC actually said this: Ya know, if China were to revalue it’s currency or China is to start making say, toys that don’t have lead in them or food that isn’t poisonous, their costs […]

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Truth in the Internet age

Thursday, August 9, 2007

While perusing the Boston Globe yesterday, I came across this article in the Business Section, about the latest doings at Fidelity Investments, in which, truth to tell, I have zero interest. Nonetheless, I was struck by this paragraph: Ned Johnson, the visionary who built Fidelity Investments into the nation’s largest mutual fund company, has long […]

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Our media at work

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

In this morning’s Day we learn that John Edwards failed to score points with a union crowd in Chicago at a candidates debate. The debate took place before a large and raucous union crowd. How do we know that Edwards failed to score? Well, we don’t have to take the reporter’s (a labor reporter no […]

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Bush: Just like Churchill, except without brains, common sense, or an understanding of history

Sunday, July 8, 2007

A word to the wise: Beware of any newspaper article in which it is asserted as fact that George Bush reads books. Case in point, a Washington Post article (Alone Yet At Peace), reprinted in the Day this morning. This is not the worst of the Bush hagiographies that have been inflicted upon us by […]

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