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Wednesday, Jan 07, 2004
rising son
"If you’re so inclined, you can probably go ahead and tell people you’ve read William Vollmann’s latest, a spry, seven-volume, 3,298-page examination of the ethical justifications for violence. You’ll probably get away with it—unless, that is, you end up talking to someone who was willing to shell out $120 for this unbelievably ambitious work, the aim of which is to "create a simple and practical moral calculus which would make it clear when it was acceptable to kill, how many could be killed and so forth"—an aim Mr. Vollmann admits is "coldblooded enough … but life cannot evade death.""
opinion urinal
and the brooks op-ed is the same type of shit as in the ny post just prettied up for the ny times. they really should be ashamed to print that.
Tuesday, Jan 06, 2004
post pattern
i usually dont bother with this type of toxic thinking but i couldnt pass this one up. its nice to see the pro-dean algorithmically challenged "sponsored" links subverting the text of the op-ed.
auletta time
"The New Yorker's media writer comes out with a new book and talks to mb about the business, his articles, and learning to talk to the bosses."
signal corps
finalists in moveons ad contest.
commie as you are
commie rag commie symp commie nest
traded winded
(un)fortunately im not smart enough not to overrate myself or come up with game theory conundrums.
looking up
"Software now emerging analyzes search results and automatically sorts them into categories that, at a glance, present far more information than the typical textual list."
he believed
Monday, Jan 05, 2004
knicked up
wow. i cant believe im getting a major sports update from matt yglesias. scooped again. i dont even have a joke at my own expense. will talk about the trade once ive checked it out. cant say im a stephon marbury fan though.