Holding my nose to vote for Corzine and his "EZ Vote" strategy
I thought this mailer was a little weird when I got it over the weekend....couldn't tell right off it was a Corzine promotional piece, and that's exactly the way they wanted it. Basically it's an...
View ArticleTop NJ Newspaper Endorsements: 3 for Forrester, 1 for Corzine
My apologies if this has been posted previously. But I was surprised to read through my newspapers over the weekend and find Corzine not the NJ gubernatorial candidate of choice in three of the...
View ArticleWaPo Removes Online Chat w/ Editor Jim Brady
Hmmmm. I just went to the Washingtonpost.com site to read the rest of today's chat w/ Jim Brady, the online editor who made the decision to pull comments on the paper's obfuscatin' Ombudsman Deborah...
View ArticleA Soundtrack for our Times: Graham Parker's "Acid Bubblegum"
That's the funny thing about Art: It might be ten years old, but it's right on time. In 1996, Graham Parker released one of the best CDs of his career, "Acid Bubblegum." It didn't get much press and...
View ArticleBlaze Guts MD Spy House -- Media Pix Confiscated
Hi. I read Kos every day and post here once in a while, but I still miss stuff (how can you not?), so forgive me if this has already been posted. Wonkette has a series of interesting/disturbing links...
View ArticleExcuse this interruption, but...Does Spid3y really suck?
Hi, everybody. Pardon me for a less-than-serious diary, but I'm amazed by the number of people at work who are telling me today that the new Spiderman movie really, really sucks. Are the 20-something...
View ArticleI May Not Vote for Corzine
I've weighed in (so to speak) a few times here in response to others' diaries about my state's Governor Jon S. Corzine, making the point that to me he's just another arrogant billionaire who wants to...
View ArticleGovt Crackdown on Media in Gulf for 4th of July
I've got to say, as a PR guy, that the cynical strategy to pick 4th of July weekend to put the hammer down on news coverage of the effects of BP's catastrophic oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is...
View ArticleAbout the Brian Williams debacle....
[Changed Headline now that this has been lingering in the Rec'c stories area for a while. My initial headline was a lot more flabbergasted that I was the first person to mention the Brian Williams...
View ArticleThe Latest on the Brian Williams Debacle
Pleased to see DK's Kelly Eleved's piece on the front page today, but things are happening so fast on this story that it's already outdated. Here's what's come out in the past 24 hours:CNN found an...
View ArticleDennis Hastert as the Tip of the Iceberg
How much do you know about pedophiles? Maybe not a lot, because it's a repulsive subject, arguably the worst of all crimes. Nobody likes to think about it.But there's one sick, sordid fact that comes...
View ArticleThe Clintons Play Dirty and It Depresses Me Greatly
It depresses me that Bill Clinton was out causing chaos as he campaigned at polling places across Massachusetts yesterday., and will, of course, get away with it. www.bostonglobe.com/…He held up voting...
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