December 2009
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“ELIZABETH KOLBERT - A moment: In December, 2005, the Bush Administration...”
– Turn of the Decade: Looking Back, Looking Ahead: News Desk : The New Yorker
YouTube - Production process of the official 2010... →
On Location - A Peacekeeper’s Retreat From the... →
“More than a few of this book’s essay titles will make you groan and laugh out...”
– Books - ‘The Big Lebowski’ and Its Dude Get the Academic Treatment - NYTimes.com
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“Two years ago, I re-organized my library, and gave away 20 cartons of books,...”
– Books You Can Live Without - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com
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The Big Money: Wait, That Says “Google”?! →
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“At some level, it is possible to understand the roots of liberal frustration....”
– And The Rest Is Just Noise | The New Republic
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“Who can forget the excitement that the CD-ROM version of Newsweek generated in...”
– Electronic tablets can’t possibly save magazines and newspapers. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
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“In a mind-boggling display of bad judgment, considerable time, money, and...”
– Ed | DVD | I Watched This On Purpose | The A.V. Club
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“4. Connecticut is home to the nation’s insurance industry. I have...”
– Can Senate Democrats count on Joe Lieberman to vote for health reform? - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
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“I find Lieberman’s behavior in this affair unconscionable, and I share Klein’s...”
– PostPartisan - The public option died last summer
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McSweeney's: Patronizing the Arts →
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“One of the mistakes that was made over the last eight years is for us to have a...”
– Barack Obama On 60 Minutes: No More Mr. Nice Guy? | Online | Mediaite
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“But even as the Europeans admired the Indians’ simplicity, they were...”
– Columbus’ Confusion About the New World | People & Places | Smithsonian Magazine
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“This breed of douchebag often embraces muscle-culture vanity, fussy...”
– Douchebags gone wild. - By Troy Patterson - Slate Magazine
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The Book Bench: James Wood on the Books of 2009 →
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“Correction
Thursday, December 3, 2009
A Nov. 26 article in the...”
– correction - washingtonpost.com
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“As she prepared her daughter for college, Anne Sweeney insisted that a...”
– Web-TV Divide Is Back in Focus With NBC Sale - NYTimes.com
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“Fellow designers, let’s be grateful for getting paid to do a safe and socially...”
– The Client’s Point of View | HARVEST Time Tracking and Invoicing Blog
“But the sober description of the box America finds itself and of the compromises...”
– War in a Minor Key: Interesting Times : The New Yorker
“Anyway, I’m going to go get some smokes, but I’ll…be right...”
– Obama Tells Nation He’s Going Out For Cigarettes | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
“For a sense of how bad this sort of thing can get, check out the story that...”
– AOL’s dumb plan to mimic the universe’s worst news site. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
“I cannot vote for any Republican. But Obama will not get another penny from me,...”
– NYRblog - Afghanistan: The Betrayal - The New York Review of Books
The POLITICO's Seven Deadly Sins Of Being Obama -... →
Bitter And Afraid - The Daily Dish | By Andrew... →
“In my book this event may well just make Tiger even more attractive and,...”
– Landor: Blog: Hole in one?
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Walden at 150
Thoreau’s “Walden” just had its 150th anniversary. Perhaps you celebrated. Me, I retrieved my copy — my grandfather’s copy (The Modern Library, 1950) — and looked at what I’d scribbled and underlined during Fitzgibbon’s college class in 1995.
“I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable...
“Cheney was asked if he thinks the Bush administration bears any responsibility...”
– Dick Cheney slams President Obama for projecting ‘weakness’ - Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei - POLITICO.com