January 2012
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Good lord. The Todd Glass WTF interview is... →
“We did a bit about bedbugs; I told Kurt that I had sex with Satan, and he had...”
– Kristen Schaal
“Because we were dumb drunk in a Brooklyn bar seven years ago when we came up...”
– The 2011 Tournament of Books by ToB Staff - The Morning News
“For instance, last week I said that Gary seemed to be helping himself to other...”
– Please Don’t Misinterpret My Inflammatory Remarks
“Imagine that when we started Apple we set things up so that we could charge...”
– Steve Wozniak to the FCC: Keep the Internet Free
“That’s what Palin believes. Each person is solely accountable for his...”
– Sarah Palin Blood Libel: Palin opposes collective blame for monsterous crimes, unless they are committed by Muslims.
“Here’s what will happen: expectations will be absurd, and the movie will...”
– The Arrested Development Movie Is a Lousy Idea and It’s Your Fault
“Katniss Everdeen makes Bella from Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight books look like the...”
– Make Me a Woman by Paul Constant
“It would be so easy to play an earnest young woman who works in the local...”
– LA Times Q&A with Amy Poehler
“Commuters crammed into decrepit electric buses, packed as tightly as boxes of...”
– New York Times - Visitors See North Korea Still Stunted by Its Isolation
“Few entrances have more historical significance to the nation at large than the...”
– DC full of do-not-enter entrances
“You run a deficit both when you borrow money and when you defer maintenance that...”
– Larry Summers via Ezra Klein
http://ifiboughtyourappalreadycaniupdateitthroughth... →
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Organic chemistry is cats →
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From a review on GoodReads: “At first I found it laugh-out-loud funny, but after I got used to the author’s style, I felt like I was stuck at a cocktail party with a drunken bore.” Describes this one perfectly. With any luck, it will be on the Tournament of Books short list, and my reading of it will serve a larger purpose.
December 2010
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Study Finds Fox News Viewers Are The Most... →
And this is a surprise?
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“Is Time ignoring the voice of the people in favor of a less controversial...”
– Gothamist
Stem cell transplant has cured HIV infection in... →
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“In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no...”
– Room by Emma Donoghue
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“If you read up on strings, you will learn that there are two different types,...”
– Skippy Dies by Paul Murray. You should probably read this book.
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Is Bernie Sanders Still Talking? →
November 2010
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August 2010
13 posts
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“You look like you’ve got a piece of coal in your rear end. Make it into a...”
– The estimable Tim Gunn.
Rachel was on form tonight. →
Seriously. Watch the whole thing.
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This is cutting it way too close to the deadline for my tastes.
Reading the decision, it’s almost as if the Proponents of Prop 8 didn’t think they even needed to put forth any effort.
The insomnia has crossed the threshold into becoming a real, actual problem.
