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Is Fox News, News? No...A proof.
…well, not formally so, but I think what follows could well fall into the bounds of an argument constructed to the requirements of informal discourse — and what could be more devoid of for… more →
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Is Fox News, News? No...A proof.
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Tom wrote 1 month ago: …well, not formally so, but I think what follows could well fall into the bounds of an argumen … more →
"What Do You Think I Fought For At Omaha Beach": No on 1 in Maine
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Tom wrote 1 month ago: Nothing to add to this. The man says it all: (h/t DougJ over at Balloon Juice.) … more →
Andrew Sullivan Fouls (Another) One Off — and Then Grotesquely Strikes Out: God, Evil, and Auschwitz edition, part two
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Tom wrote 1 month ago: Way, way back in blog years (aka, about two weeks ago), I posted the first of a three parter on Andr … more →
It's not that McArdle can't read...it's that she can't (won't) think: part four (and last, thank FSM).
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Tom wrote 1 month ago: Update: Hello and thanks to everyone coming over from Balloon Juice (and elsewhere.) It took me a w … more →
It's not that McArdle can't read...it's that she can't (won't) think: part three
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Tom wrote 1 month ago: This is the third part of a ridiculously oversized tome on one example of what I see as a systematic … more →
It's not that McArdle can't read...it's that she can't (won't) think: part two.
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Tom wrote 1 month ago: So: on to the bill of particulars on McArdle’s recent attempt to claim the intellectual high … more →
It's not that McArdle can't read...it's that she can't (won't) think: part one.
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Tom wrote 1 month ago: There is a lot of writing, especially in the self-declared higher reaches of what passes for public … more →
Quote (and Clip) of the Day: Wynton Marsalis speaks...
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Tom wrote 2 months ago: “Our current lack of respect for swing can be likened to the current state of our democracy. … more →
We Will Fight Them On The Beaches!: Why Does The Atlantic Hate Science so Damn Much Edition.
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Tom wrote 2 months ago: I know that I’ve been on blog hiatus for a while, and as my minions* have the troubling proper … more →
A Brief Note On Kleingate/Aimai grace note edition
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Tom wrote 2 months ago: The intertubes burnt up this last week with news of the latest tantrum by occasionally satisfactory … more →
Another Reason Why My Doctor Tells Me The Nation Shouldn't Read Megan McArdle...
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Tom wrote 3 months ago: …the necessary blood pressure medication on its own would bankrupt our soon-to-be-reformed hea … more →
Quickie Must-Read Link ...
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Tom wrote 3 months ago: This, from The New York Times. (h/t DougJ at Balloon Juice) In brief: court documents reveal that … more →
Why Andrew Sullivan is right about Megan McArdle, but not in the way he thinks.
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Tom wrote 4 months ago: I very rarely read Megan McArdle. She gets filtered by the “life is too short to read stupid … more →
Further to the Gates fiasco
Tom wrote 4 months ago: My post on Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. arrest and the “post-racial” willed ignoranc … more →
Why Not Pile On? Clueless (or Malign) NY Times Pundits: David Brooks Edition
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Tom wrote 4 months ago: A fair amount of note has already been taken of today’s David Brooks’ pontification; I s … more →
Dog Bites Man: Tom Friedman Mischaracterizes US Interventions.
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Tom wrote 4 months ago: Atrios sent me in search of Tom Friedman’s latest, and, like its author, it’s a bizarre … more →
On Wise Latinas, Identity and Experience, Civic Media, and the Lethal Stupidity of the Right
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Tom wrote 5 months ago: Another update from the Knight/MIT Future of News/Civic Media conference. In the final plenary, one … more →
Diary of a Trade Book (Newton and the Counterfeiter): Outsourced Whatever Edition
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Tom wrote 5 months ago: Just a quick heads up that John Scalzi, whose Whatever blog I should have blogrolled long ago* (it … more →
Sunday Link Fest 1: Stuff I meant to blog about but didn't -- well not quite.
Tom wrote 6 months ago: I don’t know how my comrades-in-blog deal with this one, but in my surfing through the days (a … more →
