Maybe someone linked to this elsewhere, but it seems sort of pertinent to the Christine Brennan discussion:...
Forgive if this has come up on one of the 117 other extant Whitlock threads, but this -- -- is just absurd. Whatever it is Whitlock thinks 50...
Hear, hear to Fenian's take. I'll only add that the left spent years making the tactical, not to mention intellectual, mistake of calling for...
Oh, please. I'm with SF_Express on this one. It's easy to be holy here, but anyone who actually bothered to read the particulars -- rather than,...
I dunno, Alma. The column seems fairly consistent with the rest of the Simmons oeuvre. He still traffics in his brand of slacker nihilism. The...
Simmons is actually sufferable, for once. This business about the children has to be the cheapest trick in the sportswriter's quiver. Enough....
Did anyone else find the Michael Lewis piece just the slightest bit creepy? The cover, I remember, was especially weird -- one big black dude...
Fine piece, but can we please, please, please retire the "This is a story about X" trope?? One day, when we tally up the many ills Gary Smith --...
I know this one's in the pantheon and all, but I've never been able to get past the second graf. That line, "The maddest of existentialists, one...
OK, I don't get it. We're equating a possible suicide attempt with, what, a penchant for end zone dances? The guy may have put half a Walgreens...
Speaking of Robert Johnson, the lyric that always gets to me (an Illinoisan, Chicago-born) is his "Back to that land of California, to my sweet...
Re: Best. Columnist. Ever. Certainly not best ever, but at least worth a shout-out: Myles na gCopaleen/Flann O'Brien/Brian O'Nolan.
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