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I’ve been holding off on commenting on the choice of Rick Warren for the pivotal Obama administration role of “guy who says goddy stuff for two minutes and then leaves forever.” My position is deeply nuanced, delicately balanced, and hard to decipher, but here it is:
I’m for it.
Yup. And it’s not that I’m […]

My friend Adam’s dad, Arthur Spiegelman, died yesterday. Here’s the story, from Reuters, naturally:
Renowned journalist Arthur Spiegelman dies at 68
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Arthur Spiegelman, one of Reuters’ finest writers and longest-serving correspondents, died at home in Los Angeles on Saturday. He was 68.
In his 42 years with Reuters, Spiegelman deployed his sparkling prose […]

Friends being funny. Funny, funny friends. [Can you tell I’ve been reading a lot of children’s’ books lately?]
First up, Paula Poundstone has just released her first ever CD, available here. What? Her first CD? Yes. My sense is that she was waiting to make sure that it wasn’t some […]

Forcing hundreds of reporters to laboriously cut-and-paste his unspellable name, Governor Rod Blagojevich had the rug pulled out from over him today by US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.

At first blush, this quote from the affidavit seem pretty damning:
During the call, ROD BLAGOJEVICH stated, “unless I get something real good for [Senate Candidate 1], shit, […]