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February 2003
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Just shut up!
02.21.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Just shut up!Neal Pollack has some blunt advice for all of us discussing the war online and in print: Shut up, antiwar people. Shut up, pro-war people. Shut down your computers and shut your goddamn pieholes. No one gives a shit what you write, so stop writing about the war. Shut up, all of you. Thank you, […]
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Friedman to Bushies: ‘Tell the Truth’
02.19.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Friedman to Bushies: ‘Tell the Truth’The good folks at Avocare tipped me off to a new NYT column by globalization optimist Thomas Friedman. Friedman hints at a more accurate take on the French than we’ve been getting from most McMedia outlets. The French have a long history in the Middle East, and have their own national interests at heart as […]
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Jesus is da bomb
02.19.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Jesus is da bombWhy is Laughing Boy laughing? Because he taunts me with a beautiful photo of Harvard square in the rain at night every time I check his website. Where else can you see someone juggle fire on a tight rope, browse through five excellent bookstores, get drunk while eating Chicago deep dish pizza, and then harass […]
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Lies, damned lies, and statistics
02.18.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Lies, damned lies, and statisticsFactoids and statistics are like troll dolls: you have to be a bit freaky to collect them, and what the hell are they good for anyway? (By the way, my troll doll collection is way cooler than yours. And I don’t think yours are even real troll dolls anyway. Poser.)
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World of order vs. world of disorder? Too easy.
02.16.03 | Permalink | 2 CommentsGlobalization optimist Thomas Friedman has a new take on Benjamin Barber’s idea of Jihad vs. McWorld: the world of order vs. the world of disorder. The world of order rests on four pillars: the US, the EU (along with Russia), China, and India. The world of disorder also has its four pillars: anarchic states, rogue […]
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My next favorite movie
02.15.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on My next favorite movieChristopher Guest—co-star of This Is Spinal Tap and creator of Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show—releases his next mockumentary A Mighty Wind on April 16 in a major metropolitan area near you. In other news, the Kingston Trio sucks.
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