Month: April 2006

  • Little Stephen

    Stephen Colbert was already well on the way to eclipsing his mentor, Jon Stewart, as the master of fake-but-real news. His performance last night at the White House correspondent’s dinner put him over the top. His routine was scathingly funny, all the more so to everyone watching on C-Span since the audience in the room…

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  • To the editors of the New Yorker

    I write reluctantly, and yet with, I feel, an historico-moral imperative to set the record on some key facts. In the first place, my father never visited Kansas with Truman Capote. Indeed, he never set foot in the sunflower state–on this point, there is no doubt. In fact, my father had the curious and somewhat…

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  • Let’s Get Fooled Again!

    As we blithely stumble toward a nuclear confrontation with Iran, two more favorite Bush lies were put to rest this week. The first is the absurd notion that “everything’s just great” in Iraq, only Katie Couric and her co-horts in the “Main-Stream-Media” won’t report it. The second is the oft-quoted Bush lie that he “listens”…

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  • Paris: Les Grèves

    This just in from our Paris correspondents, K et R: Even buildings and tourist attractions are going on strike!

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  • It’s all a popularity contest

    The graph above (click to embiggen) charts the varying popularity levels of three names chosen at random, since 1880. There’s also a popular 4th name thrown in as a control. Care to guess what it is? You can have more fun here. And, if you want to be completely freaked out, go here and look…

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  • Two Coyote Stories

    Hal died Thursday night, his captors not really sure why. Nor is anyone sure where he came from, or how he got to Central Park in the first place. Would it have been possible to let a coyote live in Central Park, roaming around forever wild, or the ramble? Howling at night? Could he have…

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