November 2009
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Watch[via Rosie]
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The 'Going Rogue' Index →
The New Republic indexes Palin’s index-less book. Don’t miss the 40 sub-entries for,
People or groups who have been mean to/spread rumors about/slighted/insulted/otherwise annoyed Sarah Palin
This is better than Chris Beam’s own take, at Slate.
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Marriage politics
I happened upon the Clintons’ June 1992 appearance on the Arsenio Hall show, and an exchange struck me:
Arsenio: Through all this controversy, have you ever found yourselves at home, fighting? Honestly? Hillary: No. Bill: Nuh uh. Hillary: Not about anything important. We fight about what movie we want to see… Arsenio: Because, you know… it’s hard to think that you never at...
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Typekit launches today →
I very nearly swooned as I selected that big ole’ Bello Pro on the main page there.
This will change the way you design websites. Add a line of code to your pages and choose from hundreds of fonts. Simple, bulletproof, standards compliant, accessible, and totally legal.
[Reminded via Kottke]
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“‘Yes, yes, Hemingway,’ she said. ‘But you were living in a...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast [p.12].
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WatchI asked last month, “can the times really be changing, even if only a bit?” Cornel West, it should come as no surprise, has a mellifluous word on the subject, and he offered it to Stephen Colbert last week:
Thank God we’ve got white brothers and sisters who are a little bit less racist than they were in the past – that’s a beautiful thing. But it doesn’t mean that...