I haz it. I haven’t played much in the food threads here. Partly, it’s because I didn’t want to step on established traditions; partly because life is too short to write about everything. But in the end, why not — and I just enjoyed something y’all might, so what’s the harm in using up some …
Archives for May 7, 2012
That’s a lot of totebags, my friend
Can’t blame this one on the Galtians, it was the invisible hand of Snooze Hour-watching book-buyers that financed this caper: Price: $3.95 million Details: The New York Times op-ed columnist and wife Sarah are trading up — from their longtime home near Bethesda’s Burning Tree Club to a century-old (exquisitely renovated) five bedroom, four-and-a-half bath …
Open Thread: “We Know What A Trojan Horse Look Like”
(h/t commentor NancyDarling) __ A last-minute reminder from the Rev. Doc. William J. Barber for Balloon Juice readers in North Carolina: Don’t forget to vote tomorrow!
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a star is born
Well, the sad saga I was so exercised about last week has come to a somewhat satisfying, somewhat not conclusion. Satisfying, because the Chronicle has fired the blogger who wrote such an empty, cruel attack on three unsuspecting grad students, and through them, their entire discipline. Better, the apology from the editor is sincere and …
Open Thread
Not a whole hell of a lot to say this evening. The Voice and Eureka, and a couple of practice tests for my next Microsoft certification test. Rmoney is an intolerable suppository of an insipidly stupid and morally compromised excuse for a human being who must be an embarrassment to his father every single day …
POWR-PAC Formed to Unite Ladies Nationwide, Pass the ERA
I’ve formed a political action committee the goal of which is to eradicate gender discrimination and inequality. Our first undertaking is the Team Uterati Wiki Project and will involve compiling a complete custom-built database of the 1100+ anti-choice bills that have popped up in states across the country. We are already underway — the Alabama …
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I Don’t Get This Criticism
I think this show is not very good for a number of reasons, but this criticism just seems way off the mark: Girls, which Dunham writes and also stars in, premiered on HBO in April. Critics immediately heaped praise on the comedy for its voice and colorful storylines; The Hollywood Reporter’s Tim Goodman called the …