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Enough with the GOP 'Sophie's Choice' Nonsense

Enough with the GOP ‘Sophie’s Choice’ Nonsense

Seriously? Plug “GOP Sophie’s Choice” into the Googletron and you get this.     Representative sample from the Boston Herald: Latest Donald Trump win creates a GOP ‘Sophie’s Choice’ Donald Trump’s stirring primary victories in South Carolina and New Hampshire are a moment of truth for the Republican establishment, who now have to decide if it’s time to rally against the mogul — possibly…

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The Tale of the the Girlfriend, the Jewish Boyfriend, and the Dog

The Tale of the the Girlfriend, the Jewish Boyfriend, and the Dog

Maybe it’s just us, but the hardworking staff is starting to see a pattern emerging here.

Start with the ubiquitous Lena Dunham’s current piece in The New Yorker.

Dog or Jewish Boyfriend? A Quiz

Do the following statements refer to (a) my dog or (b) my Jewish boyfriend?

1. The first thing I noticed about him was his eyes.

2. We love to spend hours in bed together on Sunday mornings.

3. He’s…

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Why Are the News Media Ignoring Evan Falchuk?

Why Are the News Media Ignoring Evan Falchuk?

Is it just us, or is the Massachusetts news media ignoring at least the subhed from last night’s election results?

Try this:

Martha Coakley Loses to Evan Falchuk

Here’s the final vote tally (via the Boston Globe):

What Falchuk has mostly gotten by way of reaction is similar to this nod from the Globe’s Shirley Leung:

The independent candidate for governor didn’t even come close to winning, but…

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Totally Opaque Ad o' the Day (Alvaro Noboa Edition)

Totally Opaque Ad o’ the Day (Alvaro Noboa Edition)

From our Whiskey Tango Foxtrot desk

The hardworking staff has long had a soft spot for ads run by civilians in the New York Times. But this one takes the cake.

From Friday’s Times, page A10:

    Do you understand a single word of that?

Us neither.

(Q: How many lawyers can fit on the head of a pen? A: Uh, we need to make a phone call.)

So the headscratching staff dutifully plugged Alvaro Noboa…

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What Can the Herald Not Do for Brown? (Florida Scamsters Edition)

What Can the Herald Not Do for Brown? (Florida Scamsters Edition)

As the hardreading staff noted earlier, the Boston Herald is working overtime to ignore anything negative about its policrush Scott Brown (R-Elsewhere), while the Boston Globe front-pages once again Brown’s questionable involvement with the shady Florida outfit, Global Digital Solutions.

Brown’s solution to his Globe-al problem? Dump the scamsters. Todd Wallack and Noah Bierman continue to report.

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Is the New England Carpenters Union In-VINCE-able?

Is the New England Carpenters Union In-VINCE-able?

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Public Garden last evening and say, it was swell – beautiful night, beautiful garden.

(It was also our 31st wedding anniversary – beautiful! And a good start, yeah?)

Along the way, we plucked this flyer off a car windshield on Newbury Street:

SHAME ON

VINCE

Shame on VINCE for contributing to the erosion of area standards for carpenter craft workers. Lan…

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Peter Emerson O'Neil of Norfolk, MA Makes the Googletron

Peter Emerson O’Neil of Norfolk, MA Makes the Googletron

Yesterday the hardreading staff noted that one Peter Emerson O’Neil of Norfolk, MA ran this ad in the Boston Herald on the first anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings.

    We also noted that Mr. O’Neil was nowhere to be found on the Googletron.

But no more.

    We await further details.

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Northeastern Goes National with Full-Page Ads

Northeastern Goes National with Full-Page Ads

Northeastern University – the Little College That Could . . . Jack Up Its Cost to $55,000 per annum - has gone full-page boogie in a new advertising campaign.

From Monday’s Boston Globe:

    The same ad ran in Monday’s New York Times national (!) edition and Monday’s Wall Street Journal.

The hardsearching staff hasn’t found any more information about the campaign on the Googletron, so we’ll make…

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