Origin Stories

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In Robert Farley
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On January 28, 2014
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Unfortunately, some people are mistaking the Golden Age Earth-Two origin story of the Air Force for the Silver Age Earth-One story. They shouldn't do that. With respect to the founding of the United States Air Force, Lowther makes the common error of mistaking a retrospective “origin...

What is Stephen Glass Doing Today?

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On January 27, 2014
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Getting rejected by the state of California in his application to practice law (PDF), largely because he has never really come clean about his actions with The New Republic, even well over a decade later. Via Roger Ailes, who points out that Marty Peretz thinks Glass...

But Good Enough For Fox News!

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Howard Kurtz, those with long memories will know, had sweet sinecures with both CNN and the Daily Beast (bureau chief!) for reasons that are not easily explicable but were surely bad. He was fired from both in part because of his disgraceful smear of Jason Collins,...

Across 110th Street

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On January 27, 2014

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Today's edition of First World Problems: Anyone who wonders why law school applications are plunging and there’s widespread malaise in many big law firms might consider the case of Gregory.

Film Blog (V)

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On January 26, 2014

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Another set of reviews from my mediocre film blog. Waste time discussing as you like. Films since the last update: Navy Blue Days, Pembroke and Rock, 1925--Stan Laurel running around.

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