On "Here is despair, well hidden."
"The problem of living out the rest of the day" - sounds familiar. Was The Moviegoer in DFW's library?
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On Gladwell Won't Get It: The Real Role of Twitter in Global Protest
RE: One person said that, after a while, it almost seemed irrelevant "to be tweeting while someone is dying in front of you".
My gosh! Aside from literally saving the life of that person (obviously), what could possibly be more relevant than alerting the world, in real time, that such atrocities were occurring?
Is it the silliness of the word "tweet" that trivializes this activity?
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On 'The Social Network' Is a Pack of Lies That Conveys Nothing About Our Time
Argh! Meant to reply to @deepomega above.
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On 'The Social Network' Is a Pack of Lies That Conveys Nothing About Our Time
Higher, on that rubric! Sorkin saying he was trying to remake CK would explan this movie much more coherently to me. It's a completely mythologized story of [insert huge new media company of our day here] – divorced from any actual facts about FB.
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On 'The Social Network' Is a Pack of Lies That Conveys Nothing About Our Time
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On 'The Social Network' Is a Pack of Lies That Conveys Nothing About Our Time
I could not agree more. To me the Social Network makes sense only if you completely ignore the reality of Facebook, and think about it as an attempt at a modern day Citizen Kane. Otherwise it's just absurdly wrong in every way. Why are we so outnumbered on this?
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On What's the Worst Thing a Man Believes He Can Call a Woman?
Ha! My thought exactly.
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On All the Ways That "Waiting for Superman" is a Fraudulent Piece of Propaganda
The Ravitch piece is a necessary, thoughtful counterpoint to WFS, but not all charters are for-profit, and some serve kids indescribably better than their public school alternative would. (Disclaimer: my husband teaches at an excellent non-profit charter in SE DC).
Personally, I find Sandra Tsing Loh very compelling on this subject. Unlike Guggenheim, her kids are actually enrolled in LA public schools.
\"How a pushy, Type A mother stopped reading Jonathan Kozol and learned to love the public schools\"
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/03/tales-out-of-school/6645/
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On Our Week With Marilyn
All you people who find this cute and endearing clearly do not have small town Midwestern relatives/in-laws who get flustered and judgey when you do outlandish things like order raspberry lemonade in the winter, or take them to restaurants without places to sit in the waiting area. Not to mention the parking. My god, the parking! I am close to calling bs on this whole review due to the suspicious omission of the Olive Garden’s parking situation.