February 2012
81 posts
The New York Times, one of a number of media... →
capitalnewyork:
Marie Kallo, a sixth-grade English and social studies teacher at Intermediate School 234 in Brooklyn, said that even though she had received an above-average rating, she was troubled by a significant error in her report: It said she had taught 120 students in 2007-8 when she had actually taught more than 200.
“That makes me question the accuracy of all the data reports,” Ms....
"That's why the newsroom at the Times is often... →
I always heard it as “The Den of Iniquity,” but maybe they’re shaking up the old Style Manual.
I suscribe to the Daily Just What Is It You Think...
“They have not forgotten that we blew it on Iraq. And I think reporters are aware...”
– Bill Keller on New York Times readers, Iraq, Iran, and Bill O’Reilly (via capitalnewyork)
I know he’s a bit of a lousy columnist, but I still like him.
BREAKING NEWS: Error Undoes Faster-Than-Light... →
Well, at least human error is still faster than the speed of light.
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I Have A Manifesto:
Find a more valuable way to spend your time than writing a manifesto.
“The social dislocation caused by feminism and the sexual revolution demands a...”
– Also: “if Santorum loses, it will be in part because he is ahead of his time.” (via pareene)
I thought we were also offering mocking and derision?
Summer of TylerCoatesPassport.
“To start with,” Krauss writes, “he made me... →
fek:
In Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy gave readers the bloody scalps of Indian heads.
In his latest effort, Cormac McCarthy gives readers the bloody scalps of punctuation marks.
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Adverse circumstance forced me to watch/listen to most of Whitney Houston’s memorial services on Saturday.
So if you have any questions about that, then watch “The Bodyguard” a couple times and you’ll figure it out.
hellllooooo pantera
This morning at the so-called Bath Pike Panera Bread (store #880) perhaps a line has been crossed. This specific Panera, kind of in between upper middle class suburbs and lower middle class working class neighborhoods in Eastern PA, has long been a meeting place. Book clubs, business meetings, I’ve even seen what seems to be young families meeting up with the grandparents. That’s the...
Come on, New Jersey; we're being out-gayed by...
Hey look, David Brooks finally got around to filing that column about Tim Tebow he meant to write a couple months ago!
“My fertility is not a disease. It does not need to be repressed, manipulated, or...”
– Opinion: Contraception denigrates me as a woman – In America - CNN.com Blogs why do I do this to myself (via superpussy)
Not sure what country that lady lives in, but it sounds terrible.
“Back in my day, they used Bayer Aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it...”
– Ladies and gentlemen, Foster Friess. (via rustbelts)
If someone could explain to me how we’re refighting culture wars that were settled forty years ago, I’d be grateful.
Someday I’m gonna learn me some 40 year old art director skills and then I’ll be able to fill the dash with fancifully edited photographs and animations. I may even overlay some text of something wry.
in case you were wondering:
The top three TV shows on cable last week were, in order, two different episodes of Pawn Stars and then American Picker.
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Things You’re Not Tricking Me Into.
I’m starting to feel about the Internet the same way I felt about cable television years ago.
You just click and click and click and nothing grabs your attention enough to stop you from clicking again.
I came here to do two things: chew bubblegum, and kick ass.
And I’m all out of ass.
Still not a cat fan.