December 2011
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Bankers Seek to Debunk Attack on Top 1%
Tom Golisano, billionaire founder of payroll processer Paychex Inc. (PAYX) and a former New York gubernatorial candidate, said in an interview this month that while there are examples of excess, it’s “ridiculous” to blame everyone who is rich.
“If I hear a politician use the term ‘paying your fair share’ one more time, I’m going to vomit,” said Golisano, who turned 70 last month, celebrating the...
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Bard of Barbs: RIP Christopher Hitchens
Rather than wade into the legend, the myth, the Iraq War supporter, I’d like to share what was unimpeachably good about Christopher Hitchens: masterful take downs of worthy targets. In this case — oh my — that target is Norman Podhoretz.
Unsurprisingly, you could apply a lot of this to Norman’s son and current editor of Commentary, John — also known...
November 2011
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October 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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WatchUnder The Bus
Please, stay through the commercial. This is hilarious.
March 2011
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Help!
The Tiger’s Wife
Tiger, Tiger
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
February 2011
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Bathos Alert
Good Friday morning. WEST WING READING - “How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle - A History of American Intervention from World War I to Afghanistan,” by Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs magazine - dedicated “To the victims of bad planning”: “[W]ars are difficult to close out even when they are started well, and mistakes at the beginning complicate...
August 2010
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Harper's Index
Percentage of car horn blasts among all New York City motorists that are directed at slow moving pigeons: 13
June 2010
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Dedicated to the beauty of seeds pasted on a board...
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And the worm seeks cooler soil
Pop culture fighting words*:
Marilyn Manson > Lady Gaga
Elton John > David Bowie
Joanna Newsom (at some points) > Bob Dylan (at numerous points)
*unsourced
March 2010
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GET SOME
You know what to do smart, compassionate, hopefully-living-in-one-of-these-districts people.
From the indispensable Balloon Juice. Guide for first timers:
Commenter Moses2317 has a list of undecideds and progressive ‘no’s who really ought to be voting for this bill. I added Jason Altmire to the end because he is clearly gettable. If you live in any of these districts, do your best to get ...
February 2010
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Sometimes I just want to use Jimmy Reed’s...
January 2010
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SOTU Equation
announce support for a relatively liberal policy like creating incentives for “green jobs” + follow it, with emphasis, “I do not accept second place for the USA!” =
The Natural History Museum is great inspiration...
- Halloween costumes
- Band names
- Dad jokes
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Angry interlude
magicmolly:
It kills me when people say things like “I don’t play games” when they are talking about romantic relationships. Of course you play games. If you are self-aware enough to acknowledge the possibility of manipulating someone else, you are as good as admitting that you do it.
Most people do it. It’s not necessarily a bad thing. Manipulation is what creates and stokes romance, often. To...
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to pwn a PUN
1. Fulsome prison blues = James Cameron’s Avatar
2. Oh that, that’s just his hang outfit.
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December 2009
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My cosmetics include
- Eyedrops
- Carmex
- Pack of gum
American History (Somehow)
How does this always happen? In anticipation of tonight’s screening of My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, where Werner Herzog and the lead actor Michael Shannon will speak, I came across - by the grace of wikipedia’s tax-deductible omniscience - the origin of Mohammed Ali’s birth name, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. Bear with me.
Certainly, the “Jr.” implies a...
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December Version
Washington Square Park
sound: A cell phone snaps shut.
woman in her 60’s: It was my sister. She says she has pneumonia.
(pause)
same woman: And she had it last year.
(pause)
same woman: I think she’s faking it.
companion, incredulous: Faking pneumonia?!
overhearing the above while walking by, me to an imaginary companion: Look at the trees in this park! So bare! I swear to god...
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Warmer
Editor-in-Chief for National Sailboat Racing Magazine
Hiring: Editor-in-Chief of the Official World of...
Do you know the difference between a Night Elf and a Blood Elf? (I could guess?) Do you know your favorite class role and spell rotations? (Ah, no…) And, more importantly, can you show us superlative examples of your publishing experience in the games/entertainment markets? (…)
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November 2009
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#56 Job I'd Rather Not Have (But would take to buy... →
The gentleman from Utah is especially fidgety and full of shit .
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Father, Son
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Newspaper Clippings
Being more accustomed to learning about people from the past through the Facebook-enhanced grapevine, imagine my surprise when I came across the name of boyhood friend, now a 2nd Lt. in the Army, in a McClatchy article about a thwarted Taliban ambush.
Second Lt. Christopher Goeke, 23, the commander of the U.S. trainers at the fort, who are members of the Army’s Fort Bragg-based 82nd...
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Two Good Views
Wall Street Journal: Can you tell me about the book you’re working on, in terms of story or setting?
CM: I’m not very good at talking about this stuff. It’s mostly set in New Orleans around 1980. It has to do with a brother and sister. When the book opens she’s already committed suicide, and it’s about how he deals with it. She’s an...
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– NYT:
The uncle, Rafiq Hamad, described Major Hasan as a gentle, quiet, deeply sensitive man who once owned a bird that he fed by placing it in his mouth and allowing it to eat masticated food. When the bird died, Mr. Hamad said, Major Hasan “mourned for two or three months, dug a grave for it and...