Month: September 2012

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Covering the convention coverage

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On September 6, 2012
The consensus on Clinton’s speech last night seems to fall between “world-historically awesome” and “the speech by which all future speech will be judged and found wanting.” I wouldn’t expect anything less from the best Republican President in recent memory. But what’s interesting to me isn’t the content of the speech—whatever it was I didn’t […]

An Awkward Position…

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On September 5, 2012
Shades of American Gangster: Two Indian Air Force pilots who flew Chinese Defence Minister Gen Liang Guanglie in a special aircraft from Mumbai to Delhi on Wednesday received an unusual gift from the visiting dignitary. The pilots were given two envelopes on their arrival in Delhi. On opening the envelopes, they found Rs 50,000 in […]

Convention?

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On September 5, 2012

Right now I’m watching the Giants play the Cowboys, even though I’m no longer a huge fan of the NFL.  Other options currently available on my teevee include Leverage, Burn Notice, Superna

Race and Baseball Commentary

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On September 5, 2012
I’m not sure that this study is as scientific as its authors claim, but this piece on how baseball commentators use code words to describe players based upon race suggests the stereotypes many of us already knew existed. As we all know, only white players can be “scrappy” while Latinos are often described as lazy, […]
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Oh, God.

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On September 5, 2012
Paul Ryan, among many others, is evidently dismayed that the 2012 Democratic Party platform has performed a third-trimester abortion on Baby Jesus, whereas the GOP platform has been cleverly inscribed on a tortilla miraculously bearing the toasted image of the Virgin Mary. For shits, I devoted a needlessly long chunk of time this morning reviewing […]

Mountain man

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On September 5, 2012

Paul Ryan’s phony claim that he ran a sub-three hour marathon has gotten a good deal of attention. Another one of his claims regarding his feats of strength and endurance seems similarly dubious

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