…Last night I ran across perhaps the most awesomest example of utterly unexpected juxtapositions whilst others were burning down the blog. I mentioned it in a thread, but really, it deserves much more prominent billing. And while it is tempting to try some snarkilicious gloss on the title and treatment of the material below, sometimes …
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Open Thread (Including Book Chat Proposal)
Still the single greatest political cartoonist in America today… (Jeff Danziger’s website) We’ve finished discussing Nixonland, which was well-written & informative & extremely depressing, but I’m not finding the fire in my belly to read another dense tome just yet, so DougJ gets the rights to the Naomi Klein virtual book group unless one of …
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Open Thread: Cave of Forgotten Dreams
This one is absolutely worth paying the 3D premium, if you have any interest in paleoarchaeology, caves, art, or lions… __ We are none of us liable to tour the Chauvet cave in person — to preserve the delicate microclimate, it is accessible to only a handful of specialists for a few hours at a …
You Can’t Handle The Truth (and yes, I’m looking at you, John Cole)
Bad videos? You want bad videos? You can’t handle bad videos… And with that, ladies and gentlemen, I give you the (blessedly) short version of the semifinal of Eurovision 2011. Yes, I am that cruel. You’re welcome. (And did I mention that the semester just ended. Does it show?) PPS: Moldova at 3:44 is not …
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Saturday Evening Open Thread: Updating the Lexicon
Recent events remind me that it’s probably time to do another round of updates to the Fabled & Fabulous Balloon Juice Lexicon. Here’s a couple new catchphrases that I believe deserve to be annotated for future readers: #Notintendedtobeafactualstatement Tickling the penguin “With a few rare exceptions… “ That Greenspanism, in particular, needs some good links. …
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Cultural Interlude: Mike Daisey
There was a professor at the large Midwestern State college I attended who greeted his Econ 101 class with the aphorism “Economics is the science of who eats… and who gets eaten.” Dave Weigel at Slate wrote a post he called “The Daisey Age“: Yesterday I saw the final D.C. performance of Mike Daisey’s newest …