If you’re one of the three people who reads this here premier \”web log ,\” you may once in a blue moon have checked out 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 from Gail \”The Colander\” Collins, who today in her column \”The Least We Can Do,\” writes: Children should be seen...
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New York Times Columnist Line of the Day, Part Deux
My god this David Brooks column is SO David Brooks it hurts. First (I mean second), this line: Fertility rates, a good marker of confidence, are down. Is there a machine that pumps out David Brooks weird columns about how all economic and social ills are actually because confidence or values or emotions? Now, let’s unpack this paragraph. I’m just gonna go ahead and edit it for, well, correctness: No, a big factor here is a loss in self-confidencemoney. It takes faithmoney to move. You are putting yourself through temporary expense and hardship because you have faithmoneyso...
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If you’re one of the three people who remembers this here blog from its hay-day, you have once in a blue moon checked out the New York Times op-ed page. You probably 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 \”I Seriously Can\’t Believe They Pay Me\” Brooks, who in his column today drops the David Brooks beat right...
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If you’re one of the three people who remembers this here blog from its hay-day, you have once in a blue moon checked out the New York Times op-ed page. You probably 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 “Good God You Have A Job Doing This?” Brooks, who in his column today “Other People’s Views,” writes: We...
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If you’re one of the three people who remembers this here blog from its hay-day, you have once in a blue moon checked out the New York Times op-ed page. You probably 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 Gail “The Colander” Collins, who in her column today, “Calling All Candidates,” writes: Some voters get primaries, others barely get...
Continue reading...You probably didn’t get to see the best Super Bowl ad
We at V+V have a pretty strong history of highlighting the best advertisements out there, even if they almost always political. Thanks to Ghost, we have the first new awesome ad of the relaunched V+V. Turns out Savannah, Ga.-area local personal injury lawyer Jamie Casino (that name, bro) bought some local ad time during the Super Bowl and showed them the most heavy metal advertisement of all time. I don’t even know what else to say, except maybe friggin sledgehammer.
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If you’re one of the three people who remembers this here blog from its hay-day, you have once in a blue moon checked out the New York Times op-ed page. You probably 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. Sometimes it’s fun when it’s just devoid of context. Today’s is from Gail “The Collander” Collins, who in her column today “How preschool...
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If you’re one of the three people who remembers this here blog from its hay-day, you have once in a blue moon checked out the New York Times op-ed page. You probably 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 Roger “Copacabana” Cohen, who in his column today, “The Egyptian Disaster,” does his part to save the Egyptian economy: I...
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Ha, two years since I typed that headline and the muscle memory is still in severely good shape. Anyways… If you’re one of the three people who remembers this here blog from its hay-day, you have once in a blue moon checked out the New York Times op-ed page. You probably 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...
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If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas “Friedman’s Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Lose” Friedman, Gail “The Colander” Collins, Nicholas “The Dark Crystal” Kristof, &c. This is a daily feature dedicated to these folks: one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality.] Today’s is from Roger “Life of the Party” Cohen, whose column “Change of Perish” I really, really liked. He begins: Before...
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