2008-11-20: This is the kind of informed debate that separates printculture from the rest of the blogosphere. Oh well, let 100 flowers bloom, even if its on manure...
2008-09-24: He gets high marks for playing well to others...
2008-08-29: Even having watched the coverage almost exclusively on PBS, this convention made clear to me that the function of journalism is no longer to cast a critical eye on events or to offer an explanatory gloss, but to generate sports-style headlines about...
2008-06-23: I triple-checked to make sure that was indeed an M and not B in his estimate . . . I'm counting on the LRB's sharp editorial eye here, but the general character of a lie so bold that no one could actually believe it sounds like ole Rummy. Where is...
2008-04-07: Seriously. I thought I had developed an immunity to this stuff, so I took the plunge. Guess I know what I'm writing about tomorrow, assuming I'm recovered by then . . ...
2008-03-19: Thanks R Meeks --downloaded this immediately after your recommendation, but just got around to listening to it the other day...
2008-03-19: The point about the French chain restaurant is well taken --makes me wonder how Paris, Las Vegas has fared over the past few years. About the sports thing, I don't mean “objective” in the sense of beyond interpretation, just that it...
2008-02-24: Hey J Lee --We'll be jumping on eventually --sooner rather than later, we hope! Keep the fashion zingers coming an we'll catch up...
2007-12-03: You know, I did this experiment at home and after having more-or-less equally destributed their poo around a half dozen teams, the monkeys collectively asked for a poo-fling play-off system. So there's that...
2007-11-29: Shirazi, you're killing me . . ...