January 2012
… the attempt to track from one to five through Mr. Gingrich’s “Five...
– the teachings of speaker gingrich, joan didion, nyrb, 1995
Obama stirred controversy throughout the speech with his relentless references...
– oh borowitz
Google Is Facebook Is AOL
– horrifying thought
PAGE: That’s the problem. Most portals show their own content above...
– but that was larry v.2004.
Google’s CEO Larry Page knew all about ads his company ran for an illegal...
– that larry. evil? prolly.
Netflix Inc., the online and mail- order video-rental service, said it contained...
– reed hastings is one lucky s.o.b.
… the furor almost by definition proves that Google handled this clumsily,...
– i *warned* you about larry.
Here is an open letter to Lady Mary and her handsome cousin Matthew: Dear Lady...
– yeah, yeah. we got a long way to go.
Ethel returns to reveal to Mrs. Hughes later that she’s pregnant which made me...
– best episode four recap
Obama’s foreign policy, like Dwight Eisenhower’s or George H.W. Bush’s, eschews...
– well, there’s the problem right there.
But given the enormity of what he inherited, and given what he explicitly...
– andrew sullivan, just getting started
Let me get this straight. Apple entered the phone business five years ago with a...
– love me lots a gruber
Someone should make a list of every jackass tech site that took these Color...
– i heart gruber
Their luggage, laptops, phones, passports, jewellery and a jar of Vegemite...
– aussie passengers. need one add.
… in U.S. history the achievements of black people “flash here and there...
– w. e. du bois
Arthur Laffer, the right-wing economist … second only to Reagan in...
– things too good not to share
…most men aren’t cheating because they don’t love their...
– i don’t see why the fuck not
Say what you will, but eight votes is still six more than Rick Perry can count.
– because borowitz is hot
The eight people have spoken!” exclaimed Mr. Romney, who was joined by...
– who else but
Because in a world dominated by perky little girls with sunny dispositions and...
– well alright. if you insist.
Which is why the only hope for rock’n’roll, aside from everybody...
– lester bangs, 1981
In 1943, physicist Erwin Schrödinger delivered a series of lectures at Trinity...
– happy new year.
December 2011
One possibility: the speed of light can be broken and Einstein was wrong....
– let’s see. there’s up, down …
In the beginning of “Madame Bovary,” when they’re writing...
– philip roth
Google to Bring Out iPad Killer in 6 Months Reveals Eric Schmidt
– yeah yeah yeah yeah
Lost friend, lost child, lost parent, sister, brother, husband, wife, we will...
– maureen dowd quotes dickens
You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that...
– wilfred sheed
I find I can paint pretty young girls,” De Kooning remarked, “yet...
– via slate
In essence, its free movement becomes impeded by the abrupt appearance of an...
– particle physics and love
I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, “You...
– george harrison, or could be any artist
And worse, the wandering, lonely rehearsal vibe struck Penn as Cirque du Soleil;...
– new adjectival phrase
… we live in a totally corrupt system, everybody knows this, everybody,...
– wait, he did?
This time, sad to say, it also reminded me of stretches of the second season of...
– the lrb reviews 1q84/a>
… yet, a few decades later, all this seems buried … under heaps of...
– jenny turner continues, in the lrb
… the male mind has always been haunted by the force of the idea of...
– adrienne rich, 1976
FALLING IN POLLS, ROMNEY CONSIDERS ADULTERY
Huddles with Advisors About...
– who else but
Dalai Lama tweets: With inner strength or mental stability, we can endure all...
– what’s with the “or,” guy
Putin Condemns Protesters’ ‘Mercenary Agenda’
– pot atempting to smear kettle