Presidential Elections | Presidential Elections
Nov.06.2012
November 6th, 2012: the day we vote on economy… the year of apocalyptic partisanship… the year of promises of new economy…
I usually don’t mess with economics. The last time I spoke on the topic was when I re-phrased the all-too-familiar “It’s economy, stupid!” meme into “It’s psychology, stupid...
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Sep.28.2010
Geri Spieler's review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books, www.nyjournalofbooks.com
BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY. The Election that Changed Everything for American Women.
Rebecca Traister. New York: Free Press.
In BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY, Rebecca Traister follows key women involved in the...
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Dec.18.2008
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm just getting used to writing "2008" and it's almost over. How did that happen? Okay, I fell down a flight of stairs and had a concussion, and I admit that my memory is just about back to normal after four months of "What's that word that means...
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Nov.04.2008
Election Morning
1. Leave polls at 7:05 a.m. Exchange smiles with a couple half our age. He is white, wild black hair and full black beard. She is Afro-American with cascading corkscrew locks. We have seen neither in the neighborhood before. It feels like God is a writer who has dropped us a symbol...
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Oct.29.2008
For the past few weeks, western media has been running stories on how "Hindus are driving out Christians" in India. New York Times (never the best of sources, but apprently widely read in that country) recently ran a headline screaming "Hindus Threat to Christians - Convert of Flee....
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Sep.30.2008
Many letters have come to THE DOG with the question, “What is an argument?” The mostforceful of the queries was written in green crayon on the back of racypostcard from Rio de Janeiro, possibly the work of Mr. Detroit, whose deftcomments have been missing from this site. The argument is a literary...
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Sep.03.2008
GREENPOINT, Brooklyn, Sept. 3...Does size matter? "Maybe not in sex and basketball," Efraim Durg says, " but in geopolitics it's the only thing that counts."
Durg, CEO of Durgometrics, a hedge fund that specializes in high risk bets, is advising his clients to back John McCain...
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