Has it been this long? Yes, it has. It returns to theatres for Valentine’s Day weekend later this month. Sigh. Pretty in Pink – Theatrical Re-release TrailerAre you Team Duckie or Team Blane? Choose your side on February 14 & 17 as Pretty in Pink returns to theaters for a...
Winter Fireworks!
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I love fireworks … and fireworks in the middle of winter are even cooler, no pun intended. Here’s the finale of the Black Ice Pond Hockey fireworks from earlier tonight …
‘Best the Press’ Talks PP Sting Videos
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I really love “Beat the Press” and this clip is a good example why. Regardless of what you may think about the Planned Parenthood videos, whether they were doctored or not, incomplete or not, watch this all the way through and understand what the charges against the investigators...
FB Graphics, Student Debt Crisis
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These types of graphics are just driving me insane. Seriously. I feel really bad that millions of people can’t find work, including young people. But to those of you who have this kind of student loan debt, you took out the loans, you signed on the dotted line, you got your education...
Thank you, Christa
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Here is some of my coverage on the 30th anniversary of the Challenger disaster: WATCH: Concord High School Honors Christa McAuliffe Remembering the Challenger Crew and Our Teacher, Christa
Wall Street Bank Wheel of Fortune!
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Best political mailer of the season: Bernie Sanders’ Wall Street bank Wheel of Fortune! And yes, it actually spins!!
Bill Stumps, Hillary Slumps?
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This New Hampshire first-in-the-nation primary poll is pretty shocking: Shock Poll: Sanders Opens 27% Lead in NH. Is anyone else surprised that the first major poll out after Bill Clinton stumps in the state for his wife shows a huge bump for the Bern?
Made you look!
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Nice “made you look” newspeak/spin newsletter here by NHPR. “Would a Trump Win Mean ‘Rock-Bottom’ for NH’s GOP?” What?, I thought. Most of the people I know who are/were members of the NHGOP already think it has already hit rock bottom … and did...
Flint Water Problems
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Hey, national media covering the Flint, MI, water issues: Try something new – really look at the issue of why there are problems in Flint. It goes beyond a Republican governor who has been in power for about six years. Really, seriously, trace the problems back and look at what...
Jeb Flailing
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Jeb’s PAC is flailing around at everyone. This is really getting embarrassing. Where’s the anti-Jim Gilmore mailer, so he can try and peel away at his 0.05%?
Enjoy Cheap Gas
posted by Tony
For those of you watching – and worrying – about the markets this morning and the past few days, like the loss of $1.5 trillion in value literally overnight (which means it really didn’t exist in the first place, it was just paper), don’t … this correction was...
This Bugs Me …
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Here’s something that’s been bugging me a lot lately and it is making me really dislike some people in the journalism/online news clickable fields – this inability to move away from the spin. Take this graphic, as an example, that was Tweeted out during the Powerball fever...
Jeb PAC Flails
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Note to Jeb PAC: This isn’t how you grow your candidate from sixth place (8.3% RealClear ave.) in the polls in NH to Christie’s 11.3% fourth place position, no matter how bad a governor Christie has been. SMH…
Classes Shifting
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Interesting data here from the Seattle Times: The incredible shrinking middle class While we all know things are harder – not economically better – the data doesn’t appear to show this. In fact, it’s showing that during the last 40 years, while the middle-class has...
Joy
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Operation Santa Claus, the program by the retired New Hampshire state employees to provide presents for needy kids in the state, fills my heart with joy every time I participate. We did this as kids and now, I think for the last 10 to 12 years, I’ve been doing it, too. Sometimes, my...
Short Stories
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Wifey found an old sketch book of mine when I was a kid. Stuck inside were two Godzilla short story extra credit projects from 1977: “Terrorism in New York” and “The Day the Earth Died.” To be a kid again…
Simply Wrong
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I love … I mean, LOVE “The Walking Dead,” but, I’m sorry, it’s an adult show and should not be marketed in this way – as action figures and scenes – to children, in the toy section, along with Megablox, other things. It’s simply wrong.
Thanksgiving Moon
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My uncle took this great picture of the moon in Portsmouth on Thanksgiving. Wow.
RIP Eli
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Life does not last forever but death is always a friendly reminder to be thankful for everything you have, everything you can do, everyone you touch with your work, words, art, etc. Live life to the fullest, every single day, no excuses. I just lost another friend in the last 24 hours,...
FLA Sunrises
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I recently took a quick trip down to Florida to visit family – specifically, to hang out with one of my brothers and his wife and baby daughter – as well as do some exploring. While there, I was able to stay two nights in hotels along the Atlantic, first in Jacksonville and then...
Jail Melissa Click
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Tim Tai, the student journalist attempting to cover protests at the University of Missouri, as seen in this video, is a hero. Watch him standing up to protestors who seem to believe that have privacy to not be photographed in a public place protesting. Sorry, dingbats. “The law protects both...
Keystone Stopped
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For those of you who are happy with the rejection of the Keystone XL Pipeline construction project, thanks for nothing. TransCanada and North Dakota companies will now be spending more money, more time, creating more pollution, and potentially more danger, by driving and hauling the sand tars...
Only in Mass.
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This would only happen in Massachusetts … Bicyclist Mistook Trump Sign to be a Bomb. It’s SMH (shake my head) moments like this that keep me from every considering a move back.
Spotlight
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Jim Baude nails it here: IMHO: The Unsung Heroes Of ‘Spotlight’. It’s important to remember that while the Boston Globe won the Pulitizer, it was a gritty, dogged, relatively unknown – by highly respected, locally – journalist, Kristen Lombardi, who was the first...