January 2011
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I’ve been an accomplice to some egregious...
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Colbert's Incredible Palin Rant →
barthel:
cajunboy:
gq:
Cosigned.
Epic.
It is great, but it’s not a rant, it’s a tightly controlled piece of criticism. This is an extremely well-written bit of sarcasm, like a NYT Book Review pan of Sarah Palin’s entire career - cutting, witty, dry, acerbic, precise. It’s the lack of ranty rage that makes this good. Rather than yell about Palin, he’s simply dismissing her entire life...
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Notable citizens of Brunswick, ME
In Brunswick the other day I drove past a tavern called Joshua’s (as in General Chamberlain) on my way to browse the Gulf of Maine Bookstore, which is summed up nicely in the first sentence of this paragraph:
The Gulf of Maine Bookstore on Maine Street in downtown Brunswick is the kind of place where, to paraphrase Robert Frost, when you go there you want to read a book. Gary Lawless and...
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Distance = rate x time
If five people are traveling to Austin, and four of them are departing from Portland, and one of them is departing from Hartford, and all of them need to arrive in Austin at the same time, and if the same people need to leave Austin at the same time, four of them traveling to Portland and one of them traveling to Hartford, and the flight on the first leg can’t arrive too late and the flight...
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The Joy of moose
When I was home for Christmas I acquired five pounds of frozen moose meat. It’s a long story, how this happened—moose meat cannot be sold, so the only way to get some is to shoot it or know someone who did. I am told that shooting a moose is not terribly difficult (once you encounter one, it tends to move slowly if at all). The real luck comes in winning a permit in Maine’s...
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“I was teaching economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology when I made the...”
– Haiku Economics.
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Penny for your loafers?
My father rarely buys anything nice for himself, so I decided to replace his exhausted dress loafers as a post-Christmas present. Last night he called to tell me the box arrived and his size in Weejuns hasn’t changed, as I had suspected, and we got to talking about trends in loafer construction: beefroll vs. non-beefroll, penny vs. flat strap, and so on.
Shoes have always interested my...
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Ooh baby baby / Ooh baby baby
I may have written the first scene of Yerma! The Musical this morning. I’m not saying I did. I’m saying I may have. By request.