February 2012
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...Usability reports are often tragically hard to...
TRAGICALLY!
es aqui
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"Nope," she rasped. "I've had enough. I just want...
(Sue Mengers. NYT Magazine)
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Me: Let me just get a drink and sit down and relax for a bit. Then we’ll see about taking you out. I’m not making any commitments.
Sandy: ___________
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… try to portray with real, difficult feeling while also making it as cozy and finally unthreatening as possible.
Kyle is really only guilty of coarse manners and of being a puppyish hound, which in the bromance world is a natural state of grace, close to a benediction.
“What kind of person immigrated to the New World? Not counting slaves, there were...”
– Chuck Klosterman, The Visible Man (via kayfabe)
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One of the Greatest _______ of Our Time
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Schooled in the art of the quiet boo
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-- and a strange confederate in Mr. Daily's dotty...
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does anyone else find it odd, maybe ridiculous,...
That Congress had to enact a law barring themselves from INSIDER TRADING?
sounds like you've been snacking on the local...
Twin Peaks! so good
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...The evidence suggests that in his soul he's a...
NYT, Nicky D. Kristof
January 2012
50 posts
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ARE WE CLEAR? DO I NEED TO MAKE MY POINT ANY MORE...
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We need to move from the Age of Reason to the Age...
— George Soros
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/22/george-soros-on-the-coming-u-s-class-war.html
Watchwashingtonpoststyle:
[Bleep] Liz Lemon Says.
Overdue.
(AwwwPWOMP.)
YEP!
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synthetic and calculating persona
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It’s a reaction to what they perceive as _____’s synthetic and calculating persona, …
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ideological squishiness
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"did you see the fox sports analysts (jimmy...
—Bets H
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so... Jon Huntsman could really give Obama a run...
unless of course his skeletons have not been aired simply because he is not on top? probs. I’m still for Obama anyway. of all the lying liars, he tells the lies I want to hear. this concludes “dana’s-daily-dose-of-cynicism”.
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I searched her face for levity or compassion, but...
— Matt Bai
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this is somehow amusing:
…Then our conversation turned to Mitt Romney, and Martin’s sunny countenance darkened. “I don’t know a single Tea Party person,” she said, slowly drawing out her words, “who does not despise Mitt Romney to the very core of their being.”
— Matt Bai (new writing hero of mine. new to me, not to writing.)
heavily armed speedboats
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Ivyland by Miles Klee
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
omg. this book! it is SO weird and so freaky and so terrific! really, man. you won’t believe it. This is one very inventive author. I can’t wait to see what his next book is. He’s another TheAwl.com connection — it’s a good group of authors, man. Perhaps our generation’s Algonquin round table?
I’m lousy at...
What does the “sacrament of marriage" mean to you?
“If you’ll forgive some outside advice, President Obama might consider running for re-election as Luther. It’s not enough to pick a series of small squabbles and then win as the least ugly man in the room. He might run as someone who believes in government but sees how much it needs to be cleansed and purified.
Make the tax code simple. Make job training simple. Make Medicare simple. Every...
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“Life is unfair. Republican venality unintentionally reinforces the conservative...”
– David Brooks
…The winner of this one doesn’t just get $100,000 or a makeover — the winner gets to be the most powerful person in the entire world. Those competing for such a prize tend to be genuinely fascinating, because it takes a singular blend of masochism and megalomania to enter this particular horse race in the first place.
— Rob Walker
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”..well suited for a place where smooth-talking cops and robbers trade both barbs and gunfire with something like affection.”
— Jeremy Egner, NYT
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In the world of Elmore Leonard, people are defined...
— Timothy Olyphant
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something like affection
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