December 2009
48 posts
Nobel Lecture by Barack H. Obama- Media Player at... →
The classical notion of friendship was revived, along with other ancient modes...
– Faux Friendship - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
blaaargh:
Ultraman Thriller
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Some compromise.
spiegelman:
Last night, the Senate Democrats stabbed the public option in the heart, skinned it, buried the guts, grabbed a sewing machine and worked the skin into a grotesque mask, which they then taped to the face of the healthcare bill so they could say, “see? it’s not dead!”
And Joe Lieberman is still opposed.
This is not the presidency that Obama envisioned when he began campaigning for...
– Jacob Heilbrunn: Invictus: Obama’s Liberal Warrior Speech in Oslo
Washington has its own version of a celebrity-driven culture, but these people...
– How Not to Succeed in Washington - NYTimes.com