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Relying on a simple reading of the paper would not have held Geewau in good stead. Film clips from Watergate coverage underscored the relatively genteel nature of state paranoia ca. 1972. If only Nixon's drunken bellicosity could have erupted onto the boardwalk! Had there been no cover-up, there would have been no investigation: maybe that's the Situation we should learn from. |
Brown runs the voodoo down in a court-side counter-slide to the sports-radio, ESPN-ified, mass-marked white-wash of America's blackest sport. The power of a few, token successes to keep the rest of Afro-America enthralled is an object lesson for white boys like me: the rich man makes it looks easy, then blames you for not trying enough when he biases the refs against you. |
Estevez-Olsen III draws parallels between Steinbeck's vision of an America that grinds down its poor with Charlie Sheen's prideful self-motivational speechifying. Our reactions to the impossibility of our situation are similarly bifurcated: we tell ourselves we're the best while acting like the worst. Charlie is America, spinning almost out of control, but boastfully self-aware. |
Bwow. Bwowowowow! Woof. |
Putting all participants on different mattresses did nothing to help Toyd's monotonic delivery seem less like a lullaby, but the fascinating/scary analysis of the image of the Sleep Number pitchwoman's peculiar physiognomy will provide us decades of fitfulness and night-terrors. |
If being a politician is about the selective absenting of uncomfortable parts of one's personality, then political reporting is about forming the mental habit of writing into the void. Pens poised to follow The Gaze there, the phallus is certain to phollow. |
Ormann's thesis is as simple as "QE2" and brought to you by the letter "k," as in "401k." It's investment made simple for the only hope America has: a pre-tween set not yet set in its dangerous credit-default-swapping, for-the-rich-tax-cutting, credit-card-debt-laden ways. Caught early, austerity may not mean living mean in a garbage pail. |
Jersey
Schorr: Journalism, Integrity, and the Reality of Reality TV,
an Enemies List
Your
Name "Kobe" Now: B-Ballin', Meat-Markets, and Hoop
Dream Houseboys
Travails
with Charlie: a Steinbeckian Salute to the Violent Torpedo of
Truth (Heavy on the Torpor)
The
Violet Torpedo of Teeefs, or Everything I Know I Learnt from
a Dog's Dick: a Redneckian Rumination in Rude
The
Sleep Wonder: Effective Pitching in the Age of Nautilus Neck,
an Observation in Somnolistic Discomfort
Tipper
McGore and Folly: Censorship and the Wandering Eye, a Pop-Historical
Exposure of the Overpacked Closet
Recessame
Street: Edutainment in an Age of Economic Collapse, or Grouchonomics
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