On The Sublime Sci-Fi Buildings That Communism Built
When I was in Minsk in winter, the combination of constant snowcover and clouds, the dull clothing of the populace (grayscale or brown), and the brutalist but grand/futuristic architecture like the Polytechnic Institute made me wonder if I had found the society depicted in The Giver.
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On Susan Rice, Condi Rice ... How Can Important People Have the Same Last Names?
For what it's worth, it was an odd/amusing moment when I discovered that prominent civil rights attorney Connie Rice *is* actually the cousin of Condi Rice. Perhaps we should restrict our confusion to people who have the same last name AND whose first names start with the same letter???
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On Apparently No One Gave That Dude from Blackwater the "Postcolonialism Talk"
Look, European colonialism in Africa was such a success that they've just decided to give it another go! At least, I think that's what I read in a Newsweek article by Niall Ferguson recently...
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On Some Plutocrats Are Being "Classy" About Obama's Second Term
Look, it's just important to note that Mitt has come a long way, considering his father's Mexican immigrant background.
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On Stonewall Jackson Is 80
Yes, yes, but more importantly the *real* Stonewall Jackson would be 188, had he not been cut down by the mistaken fire of some good-for-nothing Tar Heels.
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On Don't Refloat: The case against rebuilding the sunken city of New York
Can we sell Manhattan back to the Dutch? Bet they'd fix it up real nice! And then there will actually be an international boundary between NJ and Manhattan, when it only just felt that way before...
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On What Will Tina Brown Do With the Last Newsweek Covers?
I, for one, hope they use this remaining time to publish the exposé "Cat Abortion: The Secret Feline Epidemic"
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On Peggy Noonan Still Pushing 'Uppity Obama' Bit
"The Magical Honky is a stock character who appears suddenly and without a defined past or distinguishing qualities of his own. He finds a black politician and then unlocks his secret rage, only to disappear back into the mist, his job done."
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On Who's Mooching Who?
So, is there a Tumblr yet for the 61% of those who don't pay federal income taxes, but that do pay payroll taxes?
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On If Man Hadn't Died He'd Look Older Now
Bah, this is just a half-measure. If Tina Brown ran Gothamist they would have photoshopped him together with Courtney Love and Frances Bean Cobain!