November 22, 2006

Dept. of "Huh?"

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An LA Times op-ed columnist weights in on two recent brouhahas: ...
November 18, 2006

Not-Borat Speaks!:

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A UK newspaper quotes extensively from Sacha Baron-Cohen's out-of-character interview with Rolling Stone, which reveals that the comic...

Not-Borat Speaks!

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A UK newspaper quotes extensively from Sacha Baron-Cohen's out-of-character interview with Rolling Stone, which reveals that the comic...
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Charles Mann's book summarizing recent research into life in the pre-Columbian Western Hemisphere is quite interesting, although a lit...
November 15, 2006

Malcolm Gladwell's opinion of me

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"Dealbreaker: A Wall Street Tabloid" has a funny post on my feud with Malcolm Gladwell and what Malcolm said about me in a bar...

Malcolm Gladwell on how to write hit movies

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Gladwell has a looong article in The New Yorker entitled "THE FORMULA: What if you built a machine to predict hit movie...
November 14, 2006

How Big is "Borat" vs. How Small Is "Idiocracy"

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How Big is "Borat" vs. How Small Is "Idiocracy:" A reader points out that...

Why the "Dumb and Dumber" of 2006

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gets drafted into the Great American Status War: A reader writes: ...
November 13, 2006

Future Prime Minister of Britain calls for criminalizing free speech

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Tougher hate law reforms mulled LONDON (Reuters) - Racial and re...

All "Borat" All the Time

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A reader points to the August 13, 2004 article in The Forward by Nathaniel Popper about the ...
November 11, 2006

Most ironic "Borat" news story yet

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The most annoying thing about the "Borat" mania is that we constantly get told that this isn't just a funny movie, like "...
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November 8, 2006

Democrats win House vote 53-45. Or did they?

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I make it a tradition to add up all the House votes to see which party did best in the midterm elections. Using the numbers on the Fox New...

U.S. meddles in Nicaraguan election, gets burned

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Former Sandinista boss Daniel Ortega was elected President of the Central American country, following a campaign in which the American a...

California going its own way

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Republicans are doing fairly well out west. Arnold Schwarzenegger appears to be cruising to re-election, helped along by the Democratic ca...

Well done, neocons!

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Besides helping get us into this election-losing war, you've also brought about a realignment of the small but influential Jewish elec...

WSJ: "The crucial role of Hispanics:"

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A reader writes: The Wall St. Journal in its news pages points to the "crucial role of Hispan...
November 7, 2006

"Borat" and the witch hunt for inappropriate remarks

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From my upcoming review in The American Conservative : ...
November 6, 2006

The coolest thing about real Kazakhs

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While lots of people hunt with falcons, Kazakhs also hunt with huge golden eagles. Stephen Bodio wrote about it in The Atlantic , and he...