“We hid our ignorance from each other, making oblique wisecracks to cover it up.” Frank Conroy #fiction http://t.co/8ZRJ8eN5 #longreads — The Paris Review (@parisreview) December 16, 2012
Daily Kos: Fiscal cliff funnies
Daily Kos: Fiscal cliff funnies.
Dan Froomkin: How the Mainstream Press Bungled the Single Biggest Story of the 2012 Campaign
Mann said he was struck in conversations with journalists by how influenced they were by the heavily funded movement to promote a bipartisan consensus around deficit reduction and austerity. Such a bipartisan consensus doesn’t actually exist, Mann pointed out. But if you believe it does, than you can blame both parties for failing to reach … Continue reading Dan Froomkin: How the Mainstream Press Bungled the Single Biggest Story of the 2012 Campaign
When your music gets old…
I put on a Grateful Dead song and my 5 year old said, "That sounds like video game music." He's in time-out forever. — Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) December 10, 2012
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