September 2008
24 posts
I AM SCREAMING! AAAAAAA! →
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“It’s like the kid who tried to cram the whole semester’s worth of...”
– ook, on Sarah Palin
Syllabus for English 67: Literary Interpretation →
Bad News for the Bailout →
On the $700 billion: “It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number.”
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“Note to every single mexican restaurant in Austin: start making your own damn...”
– Taco Journalism, reviewing Zocalo — rather embarrassingly for Austin
"Warrior, Citizen-Soldier" →
Kid Rock, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., and the National Guard are teaming up in a bold new campaign to encourage half of the United States to expatriate.
Finite Jest: Editors and writers remember DFW →
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“But there is arguably no political player as important in the election as the...”
– Ezra Klein
WANTED: Bikes For the Rest of Us →
“My hope is that … we can finally have bike shops selling bicycles designed for regular folks who just want to ride from point A to point B and aren’t interested in paying a fortune. Or winning the…
Harper's: David Foster Wallace In Memoriam →
R.I.P.
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“It was long supposed that a politician was best mocked by parody: by isolating...”
– Hugh Kenner, The Counterfeiters
Ian Hickson: The alt="" attribute →
I swear, it’s like reading Aquinas.
Foreign Policy Blog: The 20 questions we would ask... →
The ‘experience’ debate could be neatly resolved by running a thought experiment in which each candidate answers a set of questions like this. It has to be a thought experiment, of course, because to…
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