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November 2008

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Nov 28, 20085 notes
Behind Mumbai's Terrorist Attacks  → newsweek.com

Fareed knows whats up.

Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International… and a Mumbai native, spoke with Tom Watson… about the attacks and the political and social landscape in which they occurred.

Nov 27, 2008
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Nov 25, 200817 notes
Puppy Cam Basically The Happiest Thing In The World

I guess my question is, WHY AREN’T THERE MORE OF THESE THINGS? Why isn’t one of David Gregory’s 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue pundit boxes pointed at a puppy cam? Why can’t the New York Times replace Bill Kristol’s column with a puppy cam? Why doesn’t the Huffington Post have, right now, a PUPPY CAM VERTICAL? Surely these things will come to pass! As Horace wrote in the Ars Poetica, “Simul et jucunda et idonea dicere vitae,” which is Latin for “OMG I want those puppies NOM NOM NOM.”

— Jason Linkins

Nov 21, 2008
Nov 20, 20083 notes

Reviewing Chinese Democracy is not like reviewing music. It’s more like reviewing a unicorn. Should I primarily be blown away that it exists at all? Am I supposed to compare it to conventional horses? To a rhinoceros? Does its pre-existing mythology impact its actual value, or must it be examined inside a cultural vacuum, as if this creature is no more (or less) special than the remainder of the animal kingdom? I’ve been thinking about this record for 15 years; during that span, I’ve thought about this record more than I’ve thought about China, and maybe as much as I’ve thought about the principles of democracy.

— Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy

Nov 19, 2008
“The Washington Post reports that Joe Lieberman is in the process of removing the McCain bumper sticker from his car.” —Honestly sounds like an Onion headline. [link] at TPM. (via southpol)
Nov 18, 2008
The conundrum I face with the Internet is that someone is bound to show me something I've already seen months ago.

vinh:

Do I feign interest or do I tell them they have failed?

My friends have figured out that when talking to me they should preface any internet related conversation with, “I’m sure you have seen it already but…”.

They do this because if they don’t they get a lame response from me, usually along the lines of “oh… yeah… that’s cool…”. My attempts at humouring are quite sad and easy to see through. This is a bit of a problem.

In my darkest moments I have been known to respond with “and you thought you could beat me at the internet!?” followed by an evil mastermind laugh.

Nov 17, 200819 notes
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Nov 16, 2008
Nate Silver Signs With Penguin In Two Book Deal Worth About $700,000 [Update] | The New York Observer → admin.observer.com

doree:

Everyone’s going on about how he’s the new Malcolm Gladwell, but at least his stuff is based on REAL THINGS! And, like, NUMBERS!

Also he is kind of cute and I think is going to be the new intelligent girl crush. John Krasinski can play him in the movie!

Nov 14, 200812 notes
Nov 13, 20081 note
“Schwarzenegger said his wife has been “gloating now for these last few days” and running around the house with a life-size cutout of Obama saying, “We won.” —CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time
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Nov 7, 200820 notes
“Speaking of freedom, Sarah Palin has been tagged and reintroduced into the wild.” —Jon Stewart
Nov 7, 2008
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Nov 6, 200846 notes
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