Archive for January, 2007
Hockey’s Mess
The National Hockey League should be ashamed of itself. The hockey all-star game should be a chance for the world’s best hockey players to show off one of the world’s most exciting games — a glorious display of passing and shooting.
Unfortunately, for the few Americans actually watching the game on television last night it was [...]
Posted: January 24th, 2007 under Media, Sports.
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After the State of the Union
Senator Hillary Clinton made a subtle but interesting comment in her post-SOTU remarks to MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann. Here’s what she said in response to a Matthews question about whether she still “feels a sting” from the Republicans’ efforts to kill her health care plan in the early 1990s:
“You know I really don’t [...]
Posted: January 23rd, 2007 under Media, Politics.
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Times and Post
Just an observation…check out the similarities in front-pages stories from today’s New York Times and Washington Post.
Here are the respective ledes:
Today’s Times
Death Knell May Be Near for Public Election Funds
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: January 23, 2007
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 — The public financing system for presidential campaigns, a post-Watergate initiative hailed for decades [...]
Posted: January 23rd, 2007 under Media.
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I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance
I’m like a walking ad for Geico, but I can’t stop thinking about the money I saved today. I decided I’d get a car insurance quote from Geico. To my surprise, it came back nearly 60% less than what I was paying through Travellers. My premium went from $1283 to $560. Now that’s a deal.
Before [...]
Posted: January 20th, 2007 under Consuming.
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A Blog is Born
THE (RE)DEBUT of Eulelog: The Blog. Yes, I’m a little late to the game — Technorati already measures the blogosphere at 57 million blogs. And, somehow, on this day alone, 100,000 new blogs will be born. So much for being an early adopter.
I did once try the blog thing, but never [...]
Posted: January 19th, 2007 under Eulelog.
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