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Tuesday, Feb 12, 2002

cheap thrills

funny commentary about an article about manhattanites on the make in hipster brooklyn from The Morning News.

usability

"Usage Note: Till and until are generally interchangeable in both writing and speech, though as the first word in a sentence until is usually preferred: Until you get that paper written, don't even think about going to the movies. �Till is actually the older word, with until having been formed by the addition to it of the prefix un-, meaning �up to.� In the 18th century the spelling 'till became fashionable, as if till were a shortened form of until. Although 'till is now nonstandard, 'til is sometimes used in this way and is considered acceptable, though it is etymologically incorrect."

sit and spin

spinsanity spins their salon sellout. what, you want to get paid for your opinions?

kinship

"NEW YORK (Reuters) - Michael Kinsley resigned as the top editor of Microsoft Corp.'s online magazine Slate, which he helped start six years ago, but will stay on as a writer and editor, Slate's publisher said on Monday."

oscar mired

and the winner is....

Monday, Feb 11, 2002

black and tan

"The worst day in Saudi-American relations was Oct. 20, 1973, when Saudi King Faisal joined an Arab oil embargo against the United States. In a matter of days, the global oil market was thrown into chaos. Americans waited in long lines to buy gasoline. Within weeks, the price of oil more than tripled."

rocket in your pocket

"Typically, it has been left to the French, traditionally suspicious of US global hegemony, to find the best words to describe it. Gigantisme militaire they call it, in a phrase that describes both the scale of America's ambitions and also a pathological condition: an organism grown so large it is sick."

ever so weekly

weakly standard blog parody

merry prankster

"George Bush is a careful custodian of his image. It's fine to snap a photo of him without a tie as he works on his ranch, but photographers have been prevented from snapping him with his tie loosened. So the premiere next month at an Austin film festival of a feature-length movie that depicts Governor Bush merrymaking with journalists aboard his presidential campaign plane in the fall of 2000 may not get a thumbs-up from the Commander in Chief."

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