“Indeed members of the Yale community who know Dach personally refute any possibility that he could have been involved in the scandal. According to 32 sources interviewed, Dach’s character is best represented by the way he interacts with others on a regular basis.” –Amid scandal, University community defends Dach “Refute” implies that these sources knew something about the “scandal” Dach is accused of– to wit, hiring a prostitute in Cartagena, a place where prostitution is legal, while working as a volunteer for the Obama campaign. Only one of the sources quoted even mentions ‘women’s issues,’ describing Dach...
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New York Times Columnist Line of the Day – 2 September 2014
If you frequent this here premier “web log,” there’s a good chance you may once or twice have read the New York Times op-ed page. You might even recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written. Today’s is from David Brooks, who opens his column today with the following thing that at first blush appears to be a sentence: The toughest part of governing is the effect on the...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day – 13 August 2014
If you frequent this here premier “web log,” there’s a good chance you may once or twice have read the New York Times op-ed page. You might even recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written. Today’s a fucking doozy from Maureen Dowd, who in her column today, “It’s the Loyalty, Stupid,” writes: So when I think of [Robin] Williams, I think of [Michael] Kelly. And when I...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day – 6 August 2014
If you frequent this here premier “web log,” there’s a good chance you may once or twice have read the New York Times op-ed page. You might even recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written. Today’s is from Thomas Friedman, who in his column today, “Dear Guests,” writes regarding the Israeli-Hamas conflict: More and more, this is becoming a religious conflict. Um.
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day – 5 August 2014
If you frequent this here premier “web log,” there’s a good chance you may once or twice have read the New York Times op-ed page. You might even recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written. Today’s is from David Brooks, who in his column today, “The Battle of the Regimes,” closes with: If African nations succumb to the delusion of autocracy, we’ll have Putins to deal with...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day – 29 July 2014
If you frequent this here premier “web log,” there’s a good chance you may once or twice have read the New York Times op-ed page. You might even recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written. Today’s is the opening line from David Brooks’s column today, “No War is an Island,” in which he writes: It’s amazing how much of the discussion of the Gaza war is based...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day – 16 July 2014
If you frequent this here premier “web log,” there’s a good chance you may once or twice have read the New York Times op-ed page. You might even recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written. Today’s is from Maureen Dowd, who in her truly awful column today, “Where’s the Oval Avatar?,” writes: There are three problems with this unbearable metaphor: Barack Obama is not in captivity, he’s...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day – 9 July 2014
If you frequent this here premier “web log,” there’s a good chance you may once or twice have read the New York Times op-ed page. You might even recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written. Today’s is, of course, from Maureen Dowd, who in her column today, “Silicon Valley Sharknado” (no, really), writes: That leaves me free to worry about rampaging robots. HOW THE F ARE YOU...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day – 8 July 2014
If you frequent this here premier “web log,” there’s a good chance you may once or twice have read the New York Times op-ed page. You might even recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written. Today’s is from frequent guest of the show David Brooks, who in his column today, “The Creative Climate,” writes: This creative process is furthest along, I’d say, in the world of B...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day – 7 July 2014
If you frequent this here premier “web log,” there’s a good chance you may once or twice have read the New York Times op-ed page. You might even recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written. Today’s is from Paul Krugman, who in his column today “Beliefs, Facts and Money,” writes: Well, it turns out that money is indeed a kind of theological issue. Huh, but I don’t...
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