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
