Archive for the ‘Monday Medley’ Category

Monday Medley

What we read while frantically pushing Clueless up the Netflix queue:

Once again, Slate is about three weeks too late in asking, “What should we call this decade?“

Way back in October, Tim celebrated the anniversary of Pardon the Interruption by praising the show as a standout among sports debate shows, especially its [...]

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Monday Medley

What we read while looking for a more suitable sponsor…

Has this climate controversy been blown out of proportion? But then what will Al Gore and Sarah Palin have to argue about?

With a few exceptions, we’ve more or less stayed neutral on this health care disaster. Well,  Atul Gawande thinks the new [...]

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Monday Medley

What we read while Tim Tebow cried…

It’s been a while since we linked to any David Foster Wallace stuff, or any grammar staff (RIP Safire), but here’s a little of both: A former student of Wallace’s posted a brief Grammar Challenge on HTML Giant. If you think you know your stuff, [...]

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Monday Medley

What we read while hiding our golf clubs…

Food is a big part of Thanksgiving. Which food that is, though, depends in part on what region of the country you’re from. Check out this “infographic” which shows where search queries for different Thanksgiving foods came from geographically.

Excellent news on the horizon for [...]

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Monday Medley

What we read while trying to get into Justin Bieber’s Twitter account….

Here’s an interview with Jonathan Safran Foer, normally a great fiction writer, whose new book Eating Animals tries to get people to stop eating meat. Hasn’t he read Josh? In 100 years, this whole discussion will be moot.

Last week, we [...]

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Monday Medley

What we read while going for it on 4th-and-2…

It’s been a few weeks since we had an NY Times heavy medley, so we figured we’d catch up on old tricks all at once. Here’s Stephen Pinker’s review of Malcolm Gladwell’s newest collection of essays, which does to Gladwell kind of what [...]

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Monday Medley

What we read while forgetting to vote:

We would enjoy Jane Austen if she had written more about “foot-ball” or if Doonesbury were more appropriately referred to as the “Fiefdom of Metonymy.” And we also wonder what issues arise for a male author with the unfortunate last name of Paglia these days.

We’ve [...]

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Monday Medley

What we read while celebrating Ryan Longwell’s return to Lambeau….

We linked a few weeks ago to Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker analysis of football and head trauma. Gladwell’s article brought to the fore some issues that have been latent in football for some time (Wait…you mean this is a dangerous sport?), as [...]

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Monday Medley

What we read while incubating ourselves from the threat of flu…

This is easily our favorite campaign website. You know, Mike Bloomberg does remind us a little of Mary Bailey.

John S talked about the problem of aggregating sites way back in August; now, Craig Fehrman of The Big Money wonders why sports [...]

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Monday Medley

What we read while making sure OUR balloons were properly secured….

In case you missed it due to its very subtle and low-key promotion, Where the Wild Things Are came out this weekend and did quite well. Here’s an interview with writer Dave Eggers, director Spike Jonze, and actors Catherine Keener and Max [...]

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