Posts tagged as What?
"The Greening of Gitmo"
"In this remote corner of Cuba that is better known as a lab for Pentagon justice and interrogation, the U.S. Navy has been quietly engaging in more low-profile offshore experimentation — seeking environmentally friendly alternatives to reduce its whopping $100,000-a-day fossil fuel dependence." READ MORE
Bizarre Candidate Warns Against American Executions of Monarchs
Potential American president Rick Santorum isn't even pretending to make sense anymore: "When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights, then what’s left is the French Revolution. What’s left is the government that gives you right, what’s left are no unalienable rights, what’s left is a government that will tell you who you are, what you’ll do and when you’ll do it. What’s left in France became the guillotine."
'Times' Poll: Should or Should We Not Print Lies?
Everyone is pretty aghast and/or in stitches over today's weird and kinda embarrassing escapade by the New York Times public editor, Arthur Brisbane: "I’m looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times news reporters should challenge 'facts' that are asserted by newsmakers they write about." Not just when; whether! A list of people currently making fun of this runs from editors of city papers to New Yorker correspondents to totally random unemployed people to... well, the Times staffers are all sitting on their hands right now. GOSH, HOW THAT MUST BURN. READ MORE
Powerful Lady Talks Unusually
"So Ms. Abramson's 20-25 Hz phrase-final amplitude modulation of her 140-145 Hz fundamental frequency is heard as a sort of superimposed infrasound. (Technically "infrasound" should be below 20 Hz, but this is close.) 140 Hz is not unusually low for the bottom of an adult woman's pitch range — but 20-25 Hz is low for humans of any kind.... [T]his is first time that I've ever seen such a large-factor amplitude modulation so stably superimposed on a speaker's sequence of pitch pulses." READ MORE
A Fresh Foot: The Great Canadian Severed Feet Mystery
"Tuesday’s discovery marks the eighth foot to be found on the B.C. coast since August 2007. Three more have washed up in nearby Washington.... All of the feet discovered so far have been in running shoes." READ MORE
Hamptons Jitney "Not Amused" by Mockery
“It’s not okay with the people here. At one point you can see she was in our offices.” READ MORE
Well, This Happened
Who do I have to bang to get an advance copy of the new @coldplay album? I mean, really.less than a minute ago via WhoSay 
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"French 18th-century furniture was in serious trouble"!!!
Here's the most needlessly dramatic sentence you'll read today: "The curtain is slowly coming down on the lifestyle of the old Western world establishment, and the impact on the art market is spectacular." READ MORE
Wayne Koestenbaum Gives Free, Wonderfully Terrible Advice
Did you know that Wayne Koestenbaum, poet and cultural critic, has basically launched a video advice column? Obviously he is doing this to promote his forthcoming book, Humiliation. The best part is his advice is not really that good! By a prevailing standard, at least. He seems to seek an embrace of humiliation, while most of us would rather flee. And he does bravely address the most heinous topics on earth.... READ MORE
