The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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This Blogging Life
Andy Towle and Rex Wockner capture the minute-by-minute insistence of running any kind of blog:Rex: How many hours a day do you work?Andy: Generally from like 6:15 in the morning till 7, 8, 9 at night.Rex: Is your boyfriend OK with that?Andy: Not really. He'd like me to work probably about six hours …
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Boy Meets Lobster
"Wow!"
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"Most Educated Alaskans Are Aware Of All This"
History professor and Alaskan David Noon corrects Palin for repeating the myth of "Sewards Folly" - the purchase of Alaska in 1867 by Secretary of State William Seward. From Going Rogue: Critics ridiculed Seward for spending so much on a remote chunk of earth that some thought of as just …
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Document Of The Day
Ed Pilkington tells the story: George Patten, aged eight, [...] boasted at school about having met Abraham Lincoln, having been introduced to the then presidential candidate with his journalist father. The boys friends thought he had made the story up, and bullied him. To settle the matter, Pattens …
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Following The Evidence
Jonah Lehrer posits:[T]he only way were ever going to reduce medical costs is to restrict procedures that havent passed evidence-based efficacy tests. Maybe that means 40 year old women dont get mammograms, or that we treat prostrate cancer less aggressively, or that we stop performing spinal fusion …
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Levi's Mom: Sentenced To Three Years
The grandmother of Tripp Johnston, Bristol Palins infant and Sarah Palins grandson, is headed to jail for three years plus three years of probation: Johnston made a deal with prosecutors to plead to a single felony count in exchange for dropping five other felony drug dealing charges against her. Th …
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Kick-Ass
An amateur's moment of glory in rugby: a $400,000 prize is awarded to any of a group of rugby fans to kick the ball and hit the crossbar. First up, Steve Tinner:
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Beyond The Business Of Books
Clay Shirky tries to figure out how to save the bookstore as a social space.
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Leaving Faux News For Fake News
Suzanne Sena, former anchor for the Fox News Channel, joins the Onion News Network. Her starring in this particular segment is apt - and very funny:
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The "Show Trial" Meme Spreads
Charles Krauthammer gets in on the act. They never disappoint. My prior thoughts here.
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A Computer Smarter Than A Cat
The IBM achievement poses some complications:In a nutshell, when a simulation of a complex phenomenon (brains, weather systems) reaches a certain level of fidelity, it becomes just as difficult to figure out what's actually going on in the model—how it's organized, or how it will respond to a set of …
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The Rot In American Journalism
Jim Fallows is deeply depressed by the moronic horse-race coverage of Obamas recent trip to Asia. He is not the only person staggered that the cable-news 24-hour spin-cycle is now the main prism through which to analyze complex long-term diplomacy. Money quote:Were all familiar with one "crisis …
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The Palin Message
As told to Bill OReilly, whose interview was a class above anyone else on Fox: I believe that I am [qualified to be president] because I have common sense, and I have, I believe, the values that are reflective of so many other American values. And I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the …
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Michelle Goldberg Gets It
The lies of Sarah Palin are different from any other politicians'. They are different because they assert things that are demonstrably, empirically untrue; and they are different because once they have been deonstrated to the entire world that they are untrue, Palin keeps repeating them as if they s …
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The Wages Of Endless War
Andrew Sprung sums up the findings of a new poll:An Oxfam poll of 704 randomly selected Afghans reveals untold suffering-- 1 in 5 say theyve been tortured, three quarters have been forced to leave their homes at some point in the endless civil war, 43% have had property destroyed. The survey also ha …
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Palin's Brain Speaks, Ctd
Larison counters Kristol:Were [Palin] to side openly with McCain in a primary against Hayworth, whose views match up a lot more closely with her supporters’ views, she would be seen as imitating McCain’s worst habits. She would be considered a worse sell-out than McCain. She would be doing exactly t …
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Out Of Touch, Ctd
John Sides throws a few handfuls of salt at that PPP poll. Sager tries to understand what the poll means:Both 2000 and 2004 were close enough to justify some amount of paranoia. Now, perhaps, the Republicans are paying back the Democratic conspiracy mongering of the last decade with their own childi …
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Is Crist Toast?
A new poll shows a 43 percent swing against him in ten months. Why? Among other things, he believes Obama is a legitimate president. Moulitsas suggests:If Im Charlie Crist, I realize that Im toast in the Republican primary. I note that a three-way race is a coin flip at best. But as a Democrat... sw …
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Subsidizing Debt
Surowiecki wants to reform the tax system:A debt-ridden economy is inherently more fragile and more volatile. This doesn’t mean that the tax system caused the financial crisis; after all, the tax breaks have been around for a long time, and the crisis is new. But, as a recent I.M.F. study found, tax …
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The Price Of Trying KSM
David Feige worries about the consequences:In an idealized view, our judicial system is insulated from the ribald passions of politics. In reality, those passions suffuse the criminal justice system, and no matter how compelling the case for suppressing evidence that would actually effect the trial …
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