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BOING BOING CROP CIRCLE SUMMARY
Image via Wikipedia...From the point of view of rational analysis the weight of evidence is still on the side of the skeptics who assure us that all crop circles are made by artists and lovable, jolly old men like Doug and Dave. But there are facts that don't quite fit, and the alternatives are … [Read more...]
PAINE, MCCHESNEY AND NICHOLS
Image via Wikipedia"America was called into being by a journalist. When Virginia plantation owners who would become presidents were still pondering petitioning to King George III, when a Boston lawyer who would also be president was fretting about the excesses democracy might unleash with the … [Read more...]
LETTER OF THE MONTH
To the Editor:The top 25 hedge fund managers took home an average of $1 billion each last year (Business Day, April 1). The same day I read that the global community has pledged $9.9 billion over the next three years for disaster relief in Haiti ("Billions of Dollars Are Pledged for Haiti, but … [Read more...]
ROP CIRCLETS, AUSTRALIAN METEOROLOGY
HEADLINE OF THE WEEK
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LETTER OF THE MONTH
To the Editor: Luc Sante, perhaps echoing pleasurable, intoxicating confusions found in David Shields's "Reality Hunger" (March 14), fails to distinguish lies from fictions. Such a conflation can be exciting; it generates an illusion of profundity. The illusion vanishes when the rather obvious … [Read more...]
TASCHEN: VISUAL HISTORY OF TYPEFACES VOL. 2
Can Taschen do no wrong? As a card-carrying typeface hobbyist, I get off on this stuff, but lordy lord don't put this book in my lap I might just leap right in and never come back. Are you ready eyeballs? Start dancing: … [Read more...]
SUITABLE FOR FRAMING
From the David Simon article in the Sunday Times magazine: Network executive to writer: "Could we have the drama . . . without the conflict?"Rivals Lewis Black being told by a suit that his comedy pilot was "too funny." New orleansRelated articles by ZemantaThe New New Treme … [Read more...]
Galifianakis
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CELTIC. CROP. CIRCLE. CORNWALL.
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PHOTO OF THE WEEK
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CARSON PREVIEWS OSCARS IN GQ
Image via WikipediaFor serious movie fans, the shaky concept of "Best" as defined by the Oscars is invalidated from the get-go by a separate category for best foreign film--one that somehow never finds room for, say, Korean master Chan-Wook Park, let alone French master … [Read more...]
ONE THAT GOT AWAY, BEATLES
EGGERS ON SALINGER
Image via Wikipedia...To me the question of whether or not he continued to write strikes at the heart of the nature of writing itself. If he indeed wrote volumes and volumes about the Glass family, as has been claimed, it would be such a curious thing, given that the nature of written communication … [Read more...]