September 2010
7 posts
Actually About Neoliberalism
I’ve never seen commenters turn on a blogger the way I’ve seen them do it on Matthew Yglesias’ blog, and I’ve never seen someone 1) agree, and 2) write a statement of purpose about why he’s provoking this response, and 3) have it you know, be serious about just how scary and wrong it all is.
Sep 28th
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Sep 22nd
I'm going to this Hackers-themed party, and I... →
Sep 17th
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Sep 17th
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Accidental David Brooks Poptimism Post, Or, "Great...
There’s a new K€sha* single that liberally samples the folk tune “The Streets of Cairo”, a.k.a. “There’s a place in France, where the naked ladies dance”, a.k.a. the song my parents would sing to me and my cousins to make us giggle in pre-adolescent delight. And I thought to myself, “Of course. Of course it’s ₭esha. It had to be her, or...
Sep 15th
Cranky Kwbk post
A scene that haunts all the cooking I do is the dinner party from Bridget Jones’ Diary, where most everything goes wrong, and the one dish that goes right is revealed to be a pretentious renaming of something very simple (“Blue soup and marmalade, eh Bridge?”). Today I made this pie, and let me save you the trouble of making pie dough, buying two quarts of fox grapes, hulling...
Sep 7th
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Best Celebrity Autographed Photos At Astor Place...
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Sep 2nd