nytimes.com - 3/19/2009
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Some of the obituaries these days aren’t in the newspapers but are for the newspapers. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the latest to pass away, save for a remnant that will exist only in cyberspace, and the public is increasingly seeking its news not from mainstream television networks or ...
nytimes.com - 3/18/2009
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President Obama is still having trouble summoning a
temper at the gall of the corrupt money magicians...
who continue to make our greenbacks disappear into their bottomless well. >
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Op-Ed Columnist: No Boiled Carrots
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... Oh, and thanks to Nicholas Kristoff of the New York Times, a truly conscientious journalist who mentioned that that he reads my blog. But if he wants to balance it with a conservative point of view on the region, I would recommend ...
Echo chamber watch, part deux
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Nicholas Kristof's column yesterday was about the echo chambers in which we increasingly conduct our political lives. Having lived in college towns most of my life, I identified particularly with this bit: One 12-nation study found Americans the least likely to discuss politics with people of different views, and this was particularly true of the well educated. High school dropouts had the most diverse group of discussion-mates, while college graduates managed to shelter themselves from uncomfortable perspectives. I wonder whether any of this is due to changing academic ...
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