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Nov.26.2009
Books Are Bad for You by Michael Wolff A few years ago, writing about the book business and how dumbed down and craven books had become—and pathetic, designed only to sell and then not selling—I wrote the line “books suck,” subjecting me to much middlebrow opprobrium.
I’d like to revise that...
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Nov.11.2009
At least that’s what some are saying. According to the Mayan calendar, Revelation, some star configurations and that long haired leftover-from-the-sixties ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ looking guy trudging along with a massive cross on his back – he’s been trying to tell yall for years that Armageddon...
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Nov.01.2009
The current media hyperbole around the H1N1 flu virus has a lot of people worried. I don't intend to belittle the suffering of those who have died from it, or lost friends and family. But so far this "pandemic" is a long way from being as serious as the Spanish flu 90 years ago which...
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Aug.11.2009
I have a dark, shameful secret.
At one point, for more than fifteen years, I worked as a... a... professional journalist.
Not that I expect to receive an invitation from Jerry Springer's people anytime soon. Compared with their impressive collection of the dysfunctional, the disturbed and the...
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Dec.02.2008
I once sat through one of composer Philip Glass' single note, hours-long concerts. I tried to grasp the conceptual value of it while I also tried not to eat my own hand out of boredom.
Gavin Newsom is the Philip Glass of politicians. And that's the good news.
At least he's experimenting.
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Nov.25.2008
Baramania continues unabated, even though the election is over and cloudy crises fill the sky.
"He's still selling papers," a colleague told me the other day. When was the last time you could say that about a politician? Another baby boomer here suddenly realized this was the first Nov....
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