August 2011
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“Thomas’s approach to the Eighth Amendment underlines some of the problems with...”
– The Thomases vs. Obama’s Health-Care Plan
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This bit in the NYT Mag about David Foster Wallace and the modern style of writing he helped spawn hits remarkably close to home. I struggle to strip my writing of qualifying word, lulz jargon, parenthetical asides and ironic punctuation. Sometimes I can’t do it. Sometimes I just don’t want to. (Lots of my favorite web writers do this stuff all the time, and they’re very...
“Paying for something you value, even when you don’t need to, is a mark of a...”
– Felix Salmon
“That state of deprivation though is, of course, the condition that many of those...”
– Russell Brand
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“Chaos erupted on JetBlue’s red-eye flight from Portland, Ore., to JFK...”
– Robert Vietze, drunk man, pees on 11-year-old girl on JetBlue flight
Lightweight.
“I’m also really into the emerging genre of mainstream dubstep bros who...”
– Carles on Skrillex, the Verve Pipe, and Spotify - Grantland
“Rosie is a golden retriever therapy dog who specializes in comforting people...”
– Dog Helps Rape Victim, 15, Testify
Most amazing paragraph ever? Most amazing paragraph ever.
“There was always a sense that Cantor had his finger on the pulse of the tea...”
– WaPo
The two reigning theories of our current economic moment are not opposed to one another. The economy is weak now, with too little demand and too little growth, and threatened by mounting deficits later. The answer, as any economist can tell you and as many told Congress, is simple: do more to support the recovery now and more to cut deficits later. In the short-term, we should expand the payroll...
