December 9, 2011 10:50 PM | cunctator
NPRisms
Artemis: NPR's archive system
chase note: a short memo from an editor
HERMES: NPR's news production person authority database
Newsflex: NPR's in-house story management system
Nipper: a NPR employee (from treating NPR as an acronym)
two-way: an interview between a studio-based presenter with a reporter in the field
December 4, 2011 03:58 PM | cunctator
Samuel Hook
Samuel Hook is an associate of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and husband of Shana Tesler, a lobbyist who worked under Abramoff as a member of "Team Abramoff". Hook is a former contract employee at Greenberg Traurig, and owner and president of two other Abramoff-controlled entities, Grassroots Interactive, LLC and Federal Program Services, LLC. Hook signed Eshkol Academy's 2001 tax return. Abramoff hired Hook to serve as interim executive director of Eshkol Academy in November 2002. Hook was paid $20,000 for serving as the interim director, and the payments may have come from the Capital Athletic Foundation.
August 11, 2010 09:38 PM | cunctator
Aurora Borealis Sad Kitten Cupcake Moonscape
Aurora Borealis Sad Kitten Cupcake Moonscape! Aurora Borealis Sad Kitten Cupcake Moonscape! Aurora Borealis Sad Kitten Cupcake Moonscape!
March 14, 2010 11:33 AM | cunctator
peter baker
little political don’t pass risk losing
laughed conceded gossip politics
politics decisive fate decided fate devastate devastate
debating pivotal vast energy and political capital all-in bet fail damage credibility scarred polarized and angry political elite broken
falls short ambitious out of reach question weak run away narrower collapsed
risks beleaguered avoid anger broke down complaints tactics sacrifice
challenge popular abuses not kick in long after election
run aggressively relish Tea Party mantle of repeal
relish dead in the polls
suffered the consequences failed undercutting hindsight chalked up bipartisan victory
salient ran aground debacle fueled sweep bitter P.T.S.D. post-traumatic stress disorder
lost deciding vote spending cuts tax increase on the wealthy
former boiled down boiled down very hard to push back scared
former problem losing former failure worse
nothing just walk don’t want push narrower tried
too hyperbolic presidency rides fails still recover weakened enormous damage failure takeover handily
troubles leadership crisis inherited crises botched recriminations crisis
residual popularity bring down hit
problem raised the stakes so high make-or-break bad spot
October 15, 2009 05:55 PM | cunctator
a headline that will make stephen j dubner apoplectic
"How Much Of SuperFreakonomics Is Plagiarized?"
