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Dear New Yorker

Dear New Yorker,

I have enjoyed every issue of your magazine since I began my subscription about 16 months ago. Your measured prose and distinctive intellectual style have always found a place in my schedule and on my nightstand. It is because of my fondness for your publication that I find it so disheartening that you have chosen a theme for your cover this week that gives me great pause and apprehension, particularly in these sensitive times.

I realize it's a cartoon, and that your intentions were to satirize and make light of what in any other context would be an absurd, over-the-top situation, but my concern is that there are certain people out there who will not appreciate the subtle, high-minded Absicht that your artist intended, and will instead take the content in a more literal, sub-rosa capacity.

While I enjoy humor in all its wonderful forms, one has to ask, point blankly, what were you thinking? I mean, red wine with lobster?

A Badge of Honor

Quino

Today's Koan: What's Wrong, and What's Right

Some things are both very very right, and very very wrong at the same time. It is the virtue of complexity and uniqueness. For today's lesson we will use Daniel Radcliffe.

For example, this is very very right:

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, thus it is very very right.

On the other hand,

... this is very very wrong, even though it is the same thing as the first thing.

This concludes the koan.

(on the other hand, the second thing is very very right as well; so there we are).

"I'm just as capable of being wrong as you are at 3 A.M. when the phone rings, Dimitri...."

I didn't know Matt Drudge was so damned funny

god bless his crooked, opportunistic little heart

kitty porn!

xkcd

better than garfield


(carl sagan says "it's fascinating...")

kucinich = NORML ?

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(tells the truth but nobody takes him seriously) rest of line-up in Slate.com

caption contest

My winner:

"...and then we're going to Washington DC to

take back the white house! WHOOOAHH!"

Howard at April 7, 2007 7:52 PM

(link goes to hundreds other submissions,
most of them very good)

I was born in the year 1973

(updated 4/8)

I've always wondered what it was like to live in the mid-70s and not soil myself every 2 hours. My only thought ever about Gerald Ford has been that it was a bit of a disconnect awarding him the presidency for having invented the automobile. Also, (speaking as somebody who hates to dance) obviating any consideration to disco music, I'm keenly aware that 70's music kicks the 60's ass.
				With all this in mind, I am very gratified to note a growing trend in today's zeitgeist: The 70s are back (um... again).
Here are the top five (admittedly anecdotal) signs that it is 1973 again:
5. America Ferrera's outfits in Ugly Betty
				4. The U.S. military state of readiness is starting to resemble a certain painting by Bosch
3. While remakes of eye-gougingly-bad 70s movies and other TV fodder is being thrust upon the unwashed.....
				2. ...it is also true (as in the 70s) that crotch-grabbingly good, character / dialogue / script- driven indy movies are coming out every day. You just have to know where to look (hint: not blockbuster or most movie theaters).
and finally...
1. Next year's headlines.

ps there is also the small matter of what i have been wearing to work recently