Day: August 2, 2016

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Russell Saunders — Giving My Mom the Death She Wanted

Burt Likko August 2, 2016

A touching piece from our distinguished emeritus writer.

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Nobody Is Responsible For Anything

Jaybird August 2, 2016

An interesting News Story about a major weed bust where all of the law enforcement involved goes...

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Call For Posts: Political Autobiography Symposium

Burt Likko August 2, 2016

Political orientation is a journey, not a polestar. This year is an especially good one to take...

We Call Him… Gojira! We Call Him Gojira

We Call Him… Gojira!

Garrett Stiger August 2, 2016

A personal essay on the King of the Monsters.

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Morning Ed: Politics {2016.08.02.T}

Will Truman August 2, 2016

And it's off to the races...

InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25Initial reports are that the strikes only set the Iranian program back by months. What a disaster. N…
Jaybird in reply to DensityDuck on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreOne point that strikes me as obvious is that continuing to fail, enough times, presents identically…
Jaybird in reply to John Puccio on Is Prestige TV Losing Its Prestige?From what I understand, the original pitch for Stranger Things was a bunch of clips from a half doze…
DensityDuck in reply to Jaybird on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreThere are plenty who consider "we tried and failed" to be morally justifiable in a way that "we didn…
John Puccio in reply to Andrew Donaldson on Is Prestige TV Losing Its Prestige?Similar to Band of Brothers.
Slade the Leveller on From the NY Times: 400K Manufacturing Jobs Unfilled, KindaWe had to have a plumber out yesterday evening because some numbnuts in an apartment above us has be…
Philip H on From the NY Times: 400K Manufacturing Jobs Unfilled, KindaAt 4% unemployment nationally these jobs will remain difficult to fill.
John Puccio in reply to Jaybird on Is Prestige TV Losing Its Prestige?Stranger Things was an extremely derivative sci-fi show aimed at kids. Parents watched it because of…
Jaybird in reply to Jaybird on Is Prestige TV Losing Its Prestige?Until Prestige Television, you could be in Cleveland (friggin' Cleveland) for the big presentation a…
Jaybird in reply to Chris on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreIf it's sticky then maybe we'll regress back to the mean and we won't have to worry about anything.…