Today's Times is lighter on coverage of the Michael Dunn trial than we had hoped. There's only a dispassionate bit that so dryly recounts the inexplicable verdict -- guilty on attempted murder charges of the kids he didn't kill, but not guilty of murdering the one he did -- it isn't even worth quoting here. We
I'll give you Kristof. He's on a specific crusade, and his opinions are well-grounded in reportage.
Gail Collins is a terrible bore. I'll give her the dog on the roof - that was helpful. But jesus, those "dialogues" with Brooks are a violation of the Geneva Convention. It's not that I don't like her politics, or Bruni, Blow, etc, It's that they are awful opinionators, smug, complacent, preaching to the choir, ineffectual, warmly reheated with a toasty golden crust.
Mainly, the NYT needs a couple of younger people on that roster besides the Douchehat. Me, I'd like to see them hire Ian Murphy or Russell Brand, but I suppose that's a long shot.
Marcus Samuelsson&rsquo;s article is nice, and the Red Rooster is delish, but the piece is accompanied by a photo set featuring all the new restaurants that cater to the white folks who are moving in droves into all that excellent old underpriced housing stock, now that it&#039;s a <strike>safe</strike> good neighborhood. Way to promote exactly the kind of gentrification that will very soon drive out all the local African and Caribbean joints, the bars and hair salons, the take-outs and discount clothiers.
Meanwhile, Columbia University is nearly done with its new 17-acre campus in West Harlem, which should put the kibosh on the entire historical zone.
I&#039;d like to know what a Board of Trustees thinks they are getting when they shower a similar amount of money on someone who will probably steer them into an iceberg within five years.
Ten bucks says he&#039;s out on parole in 7 years. Unless they can convict on the murder charge next time around and/or the judge gets righteous on his ass and gives him maximums.
and unlike Jamie Fucking Dimon, if Downey doesn&#039;t produce he won&#039;t get that next time. These useless fucks in the banking sector get paid regardless the circumstances- win, lose or draw they get theirs. See how much your favorite actor gets paid if he burns down every theater in America. See how much your favorite rock star gets paid if he blows up every arena in the country or how much that famous athlete gets if he destroys all the stadiums. Finance is risky? Bullshit...
The NYT editorial board has been flaming brilliant since Bill Keller left.
So why the fuck does their entire stable of opinionators (excepting always Krugman) turn out nothing but social and moral effluvia suitable for the pages of <i>Town and Country</i> circa 1980? Week after week after week. God, just sweep out the lot of them.
The Internet is full of incisive, knowledgeable, attentive people who think their Big Thoughts based on, youknow, research and discussion, observation and critical analysis, not via sipping martinis with chums or having a lightbulb moment while changing the kid&#039;s poopy diapers.
For the record: I don&#039;t have kids. Mysteriously, my days and evenings are not given over to lingering brunches and crappy mixed drinks (because I am not 20), but to work, volunteering, political activism, and pontificating on blogs that agree with me.
It&#039;s my well-heeled friends with kids who have the lingering brunches while their kids are off having play-dates supervised by the nanny.
People who hate obscenely well-paid financial sector geniuses (and not obscenely well-paid entertainers) do continue to fixate on little missteps such as tanking the global economy.
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The world could be worse off. If Tom Friedman and Peggy Noonan had a child that grew up to write for the NY Times, that is.
I&#039;ll give you Kristof. He&#039;s on a specific crusade, and his opinions are well-grounded in reportage.
Gail Collins is a terrible bore. I&#039;ll give her the dog on the roof - that was helpful. But jesus, those &quot;dialogues&quot; with Brooks are a violation of the Geneva Convention. It&#039;s not that I don&#039;t like her politics, or Bruni, Blow, etc, It&#039;s that they are awful opinionators, smug, complacent, preaching to the choir, ineffectual, warmly reheated with a toasty golden crust.
Mainly, the NYT needs a couple of younger people on that roster besides the Douchehat. Me, I&#039;d like to see them hire Ian Murphy or Russell Brand, but I suppose that&#039;s a long shot.
Marcus Samuelsson&rsquo;s article is nice, and the Red Rooster is delish, but the piece is accompanied by a photo set featuring all the new restaurants that cater to the white folks who are moving in droves into all that excellent old underpriced housing stock, now that it&#039;s a <strike>safe</strike> good neighborhood. Way to promote exactly the kind of gentrification that will very soon drive out all the local African and Caribbean joints, the bars and hair salons, the take-outs and discount clothiers.
Meanwhile, Columbia University is nearly done with its new 17-acre campus in West Harlem, which should put the kibosh on the entire historical zone.
Goodbye Harlem, hello NoBro (North Broadway).
I&#039;d like to know what a Board of Trustees thinks they are getting when they shower a similar amount of money on someone who will probably steer them into an iceberg within five years.
Ten bucks says he&#039;s out on parole in 7 years. Unless they can convict on the murder charge next time around and/or the judge gets righteous on his ass and gives him maximums.
and unlike Jamie Fucking Dimon, if Downey doesn&#039;t produce he won&#039;t get that next time. These useless fucks in the banking sector get paid regardless the circumstances- win, lose or draw they get theirs. See how much your favorite actor gets paid if he burns down every theater in America. See how much your favorite rock star gets paid if he blows up every arena in the country or how much that famous athlete gets if he destroys all the stadiums. Finance is risky? Bullshit...
The NYT editorial board has been flaming brilliant since Bill Keller left.
So why the fuck does their entire stable of opinionators (excepting always Krugman) turn out nothing but social and moral effluvia suitable for the pages of <i>Town and Country</i> circa 1980? Week after week after week. God, just sweep out the lot of them.
The Internet is full of incisive, knowledgeable, attentive people who think their Big Thoughts based on, youknow, research and discussion, observation and critical analysis, not via sipping martinis with chums or having a lightbulb moment while changing the kid&#039;s poopy diapers.
For the record: I don&#039;t have kids. Mysteriously, my days and evenings are not given over to lingering brunches and crappy mixed drinks (because I am not 20), but to work, volunteering, political activism, and pontificating on blogs that agree with me.
It&#039;s my well-heeled friends with kids who have the lingering brunches while their kids are off having play-dates supervised by the nanny.
Vampire Squids are people too, my friend.
Did Thomas Friedman ask why LinkedIn still sucks?
Note to Maureen Dowd: move to France.
Nicely put.
The confusion can&#039;t even be thoroughly debunked, because dissenting voices get no traction by using confirmable facts.
Shouldn&#039;t that play/movie have been called <i>11 Angry Men</i>?
People who hate obscenely well-paid financial sector geniuses (and not obscenely well-paid entertainers) do continue to fixate on little missteps such as tanking the global economy.
<i>&quot;Silicon Valley: where ideas come to launch. Washington, D.C., where ideas go to die.&quot; </i>
And Thomas Friedman&#039;s brain is where bad ideas go to live forever.