December 2010
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“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only...”
– Journalist Rebecca West, 1913 (via Slaughterhouse 90210)
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The death panels are real! →
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Rebecca West, born on December 21, 1892, published “The Duty of Harsh Criticism” in TNR’s inaugural issue on November 7, 1914. Indeed, if we want to save our souls, the mind must lead a more athletic life than it has ever done before, and must more passionately than ever practise and rejoice in art. For only through art can we cultivate annoyance with inessentials,...
Dec 21st
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“Of all the strange things that Republicans have freaked out over during the last...”
– Does the GOP want the economy to fail?
Dec 21st
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Rebecca West, born on December 21, 1892, published “The Duty of Harsh Criticism” in TNR’s inaugural issue on November 7, 1914. Indeed, if we want to save our souls, the mind must lead a more athletic life than it has ever done before, and must more passionately than ever practise and rejoice in art. For only through art can we cultivate annoyance with inessentials,...
Dec 21st
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“I suppose the lack of argument is itself the story. The progress of gay rights...”
– Jonathan Chait on the end of DADT. 
Dec 20th
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“Dick Van Dyke is the most enduring of television superstars. Burt Reynolds...”
– This poem was culled entirely from Larry King’s column in USA Today by Sam Johnson and Chris Marcil for TNR in 1994.
Dec 17th
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“Dick Van Dyke is the most enduring of television superstars. Burt Reynolds...”
– This poem was culled entirely from Larry King’s column in USA Today by Sam Johnson and Chris Marcil for TNR in 1994.
Dec 17th
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“Conservatism’s sudden lurch from supporting (or tolerating) the individual...”
– Why are conservatives so obsessed with repealing health care reform? A psychoanalysis. 
Dec 16th
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“Conservatism’s sudden lurch from supporting (or tolerating) the individual...”
– Why are conservatives so obsessed with repealing health care reform? A psychoanalysis. 
Dec 16th
Time to Fix the Filibuster →
theatlantic: Joshua Green The filibuster is something of an historical accident. Until 1917, the Senate tended to operate by informal majoritarian rule. Senators could filibuster, but did so sparingly and with a different strategic objective than they do today: to gauge the intensity of the majority’s commitment to a bill, which, if it was strong enough, usually meant the bill could pass....
Dec 16th
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My Wives Club
In 1997, Dana Milbank described his plight as the lone male “freak” in the Harvard Business School’s “Partners’ Club” for TNR (“’Partners’ is actually a euphemism; the group was called the Wives Club for years”): I’m having trouble becoming one of the gals… Even the campus gym doesn’t seem to want to recognize male partners....
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“…refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given...”
– Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon, in an e-mail to staff 15 minutes after Fox correspondent Wendell Goler accurately reported on-air that the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization announced that 2000-2009 was “on track to be the warmest [decade] on record.” via Media...
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Dec 14th
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From our collection of Michael Steele's greatest...
Michael Steele: What would I be jealous of?
CNN's Don Lemon: He's the president of the United States.
Michael Steele: I'm chairman of the RNC, so what's your point?
Dec 14th
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From our collection of Michael Steele's greatest...
Michael Steele: What would I be jealous of?
CNN's Don Lemon: He's the president of the United States.
Michael Steele: I'm chairman of the RNC, so what's your point?
Dec 14th
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“Conscience and catastrophe”
Richard Holbrooke wrote this about America’s 1979 decision to intervene in the Cambodian food and refugee crisis: “There will be those who say that Cambodia teaches us no lessons…They are wrong. The central lesson…is that people must care, that extraordinary efforts are required to rouse people from their comfortable good time in order to do something to help those living, in...
Dec 14th
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“Conscience and catastrophe”
Richard Holbrooke wrote this about America’s 1979 decision to intervene in the Cambodian food and refugee crisis: “There will be those who say that Cambodia teaches us no lessons…They are wrong. The central lesson…is that people must care, that extraordinary efforts are required to rouse people from their comfortable good time in order to do something to help those living, in...
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