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The return of lay-away

Remember when you were 12, and your mom would drive you down to the clothing store on Main Street so you could pay another $10 for that cute outfit you were buying on lay-away?

It's the return of lay-away. There couldn't be a better time for it.

K-Mart has launched a holiday campaign all about their lay-away plans. It's the return of responsible buying: you make payments and take it home only when it's fully paid for.

At Guys and Dolls kids furniture, in business since 1953, lay-away has never gone out of style -- they offer it up for every purchase.

Old Navy coming to Boulder

Finally, Crispin Porter Bogusky is getting some local press!

• Old Navy picks Boulder-based Porter-Bogusky, Rocky Mountain News
• Ad agency Crispin lands Old Navy, Denver Business Journal

The DBJ says: "The agency, owned by Toronto-based holding company MDC Partners Inc. (NASDAQ: MDCA), now has nearly 500 employees in its Boulder offices and about 400 more in Miami. It reported 2007 billings of $1.2 billion."

Wow, 500 people in Boulder? That's huge.

The perfect neocon?

A couple of weeks ago, London's Telegraph speculated that Sarah Palin was a blank slate for the neoconservatives. (Seems the Brits watch our neoconservatives more closely than the American media does.) It's easy to dismiss her as a relatively harmless hockey mom -- a nice lady with lots of common sense -- but one comment in the debates the other night got me thinking: maybe everyone is underestimating this lady.

The New York Times talks about it here.

"In all the talk about the vice-presidential debate, there was an issue that did not get much attention but kept nagging at us: Sarah Palin’s description of the role and the responsibilities of the office for which she is running, vice president of the United States.

In Thursday night’s debate, Ms. Palin was asked about the vice president’s role in government. She said she agreed with Dick Cheney that “we have a lot of flexibility in there” under the Constitution. And she declared that she was “thankful that the Constitution would allow a bit more authority given to the vice president also, if that vice president so chose to exert it.”"

Read the rest.

For a quick lesson in Neocon 101, check out wikipedia or the Christian Science Monitor.