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The Ultimate Don Draper Pitch Is Don Draper: Seeing Mad Men Through Its Ads | Underwire

Every week, Wired takes a look at the latest episode of  Mad Men  through the lens of the latest media campaign of the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce advertising agency. A big shiny Clio Award to everyone out there who figured out what Don Draper was really trying to sell, and to whom he was really trying to sell it, before his long dark working-weekend of the soul came to an end. I didn’t. I’d taken […]

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Sarah Palin has a crush

Sarah Palin, foremost critic of the ‘lamestream media,’ has found an exception in CNN’s Jake Tapper. “There’s something different, certainly refreshing, about Jake Tapper,” she tweeted on Tuesday. “I call it integrity and professionalism.” Palin was responding to an  interview  with Tapper on zap2it.com, the television industry news site, in which he discussed his coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings, the trial of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell and the recent Oklahoma tornadoes, among other […]

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One In Seven American Seniors In Poverty

 Preliminary analyses of the 2010 U.S. Census indicated that less than one in ten American seniors live in poverty. But a new and more nuanced “supplemental” poverty metric finds that number may actually be closer to one in seven seniors when accounting for their out-of-pocket medical bills. The “original” poverty metric has been used since the 1960s. But some argue that it’s an archaic measuring stick, since health […]

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