Archive for September, 2007
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
I Love This Country
UPDATE 2: The video below has been taken down, but you can still watch it here, and with better sound quality.
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Via Minipudit (another of the high school seniors who blog), comes this Saturday Night Live short featuring two of the hottest Jewish men in show business, Andy Samberg and Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, crooning a […]
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Somebody Please Give This Man an Award
The New York Times finds the man who started the international poisoned Chinese toothpaste scare:
Eduardo Arias hardly fits the profile of someone capable of humbling one of the world’s most formidable economic powers.
A 51-year-old Kuna Indian, Mr. Arias grew up on a reservation paddling dugout canoes near his home on one of the San Blas […]
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Women and the Bleg-o-sphere
Kit Seelye over at The NYT issues a bleg:
I’m writing a small column item for Monday’s Caucus blog about why more men seemed to be involved in politics online than women. I wondered if you 1) agreed with that and 2) why or why not.
This results in a comment thread that’s about as interesting […]
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Fine Dining in Afghanistan
In the latest issue of Gourmet. It’s not online, unfortunately, but the subhed to “Kabul Nights” is “Most of the restaurants in Afghanistan’s capital, where there are few named streets and no addresses, are tough to find. One clue: Look for the guards.” I love when the upscale glossies do spreads on such places.
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
A Historic Tension Takes on New Importance
One smart Washington technologist recently pointed out an interesting divide between the staffs of the Barack Obama and John Edwards campaigns, which both employ a fair number of former Howard Dean staffers. There was a split at the end of the Dean campaign between those loyal to Dean, he explained, and those loyal to Joe […]
