… And boy, is it special! First, if anybody could make proud Princeton tiger mom Susan A. Patterson look like a down-to-earth egalitarian, you knew it would be Ross, Cardinal Douthat: … Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively …
(Still) Fighting for Gun Safety
Good for President Obama, and his fellow Democrats. Reuters, via HuffPo: HARTFORD, Conn., April 8 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama urged Americans on Monday to pressure a reluctant Congress to pass new gun control legislation – one of his top domestic policy priorities – as he traveled to Connecticut, where December’s school massacre took place. …
Buzzfeed & The Magic Algorithm of Viral Kitten Marketeering
. Apparently, when it comes to ideas, all we have left is recycling, so — along with the cover story on psychodelic drugs namechecking Timothy Leary — NYMag channels Jerry Della Femina to celebrate the new! improved! genius of this year’s Advertising It Kid: … Perhaps the best way to understand BuzzFeed, though, is as …
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Monday Morning Open Thread: Keep Running
. . Professor Krugman on Republican/glibertarian demands that the law, in its majesty, deny both the rich and the poor the chance to sleep under bridges, beg for bread, or play health roulette because they can’t obtain insurance: … The real policy action at this point is in the states, where the question is, How …
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Sunday Evening Open Thread: Troutmouth Bob on the Road
(Joel Pett via GoComics.com) . Guess Bob Woodwood’s latest bitchbrick about That Black Man in Our White House didn’t get as much blind approbation as he thought it deserved, because (via Wonkette) Bob’s out in the hustings of Youngstown State University, pontificating about kids these days, who don’t understand How Things Should Work: … Woodward …
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Rescue Update – Lucy in LA
. Update from Patty N: All good news. While the biopsies are still pending, until Tuesday 4/9, when we learn whether the tumors are cancerous (I personally think not, due to slow growth of tumors and health of animal), we get to breathe easier about how well Lucy has done at the vet’s. With Much …
Sunday Long Read: Tax Havens, Tax Cheats & Other Criminals
Looks like we’re in for a chorus of wide-eyed whoever could have imagined — turns out that people who want to hide their funds may not always have acquired such funds in full compliance with the law. Sunday’s Washington Post has a long piece on “Piercing the Secrecy… ” A New York hedge fund manager …
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