NYT: HAVE YOU SEEN JAMES CROWLEY, THE CAMBRIDGE POLICE SERGEANT WHO ARRESTED YOU SINCE YOU SAT DOWN WITH HIM AND THE PRESIDENT OVER BEERS? DR. GATES: YES. WE HAD A DRINK AT MY FAVORITE PUB IN CAMBRIDGE AND WE MET AT THE RIVER GODS CAFÉ SEVERAL MO ...
Posted Saturday, February 13th 2010 at 10:34AM
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RECENTLY, I WROTE A COLUMN ASKING WHETHER ILLINOIS OR NEW YORK HAD THE MOST AWFUL POLITICAL CULTURE. ILLINOIS WON. OF COURSE, WE GOT MANY IRRITATED COMMENTS FROM RESIDENTS OF ILLINOIS, OFFENDED BY THE SUGGESTION THAT NEW YORK WAS EVEN IN THEIR LEAG ...
Posted Saturday, February 13th 2010 at 10:14AM
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ALREADY I HAVE OFFENDED MANY, MANY READERS WHO BELIEVE THEIR STATE IS BEING UNFAIRLY OVERLOOKED. I SEE YOU WAVING YOUR HANDS, NEW JERSEY. IT WAS NOT EXACTLY THE FOUNDING FATHERS AT PHILADEPHIA. BUT, FOR NOW, ILLINOIS WINS.
By GAIL COLLINS
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Posted Thursday, February 11th 2010 at 12:49PM
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There have been many "Single Ladies" parodies. Babies did it, zombies did it, and Jo Jonas did it. But they all pale in comparison to this adorable remix made by children at Hope Christian Schools in Milwaukee. We're putting it out there: If these gi ...
Posted Thursday, February 11th 2010 at 12:40PM
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THE SPOTLIGHT HAS BEEN BRIGHT BUT NOT NECESSARIILY KIND TO FORMER VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SARAH PALIN.
According to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, 71% of Americans do not feel that Palin is qualified to be President. That includes a sh ...
Posted Thursday, February 11th 2010 at 7:30AM
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A LARGE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS STILL WANT CONGRESS TO PASS HEALTH CARE REFORM, ACCORDING TO A WASHING POST-ABC NEWS POLL RELEASED ON TUESDAY.
The study showed that Democrats were twice as likely to support reform compared to Republicans, but that ...
Posted Thursday, February 11th 2010 at 7:29AM
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“COME SENATORS, CONGRESSMEN, PLEASE HEED THE CALL,” HE RASPED. “DON’T STAND IN THE DOORWAY, DON’T’ BLOCK UP THE HALL.” AFTERWARD, BOB DYLAN STEPPED OFFSTAGE AND SHOOK PRESIDENT OBAMA’S HAND. IT WAS PART OF “A CELEBRATION OF MUSIC FROM THE CIVIL ...
Posted Wednesday, February 10th 2010 at 5:46PM
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SILICON VALLEY (The Borowitz Report) – A new social network is about to alter the playing field of the social media world, and it’s called PhoneBook.
According to its creators, who invented the network in their dorm room at Berkeley, PhoneBook i ...
Posted Wednesday, February 10th 2010 at 12:58PM
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Jon Stewart took on Palin's appearance at the Tea Party Convention last night, mocking both the speech itself and of course, the notes she'd written on her hand.
After recapping the familiar issues covered at the convention, Stewart observed that ...
Posted Wednesday, February 10th 2010 at 10:41AM
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“WE MUST NEVER FORGET THAT BLACK HISTORY IS AMERICAN HISTORY. I ENCOURAGE ALL AMERICANS TO TAKE TIME DURING THIS MONTH AND THROUGHOUT THE YEAR TO REFLECT UPON THE MANY CONTRIBUTIONS AFRICAN AMERICANS HAVE MADE TO THE BUILDING OF OUR NATION.”
It ...
Posted Monday, February 8th 2010 at 9:51PM
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During a speech in which she mocked President Obama for his use of a teleprompter, Sarah Palin reveals several notes written on her left hand. The words "Energy", "Tax" and "Lift American Spirits" are clearly visible. There's also what appears to rea ...
Posted Sunday, February 7th 2010 at 10:38PM
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LAST WEEK HE PROVIDED A FASCINATING BIT OF POLITCAL THEATER BY TOYING WITH HOUSE REPUBLICANS AT THEIR OWN RETREAT, DISMANTLING THEIR ARGUMENTS AND DISARMING THEIR CHARGES. IT WAS IMPRESSIVE.
Where has this Obama been?
Since the State of the ...
Posted Saturday, February 6th 2010 at 11:50AM
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“WE USED TO LAUGH ABOUT THAT ALL THE TIME,” SAID MIKE DILIBERTO, ONE OF BUDDY’S SONS. “LIKE, SEE WHAT YOU STARTED.” DILIBERTO WOULD LAUGH TOO. HE HATCHED THE BROWN BAG IDEA IN 1980, DECORATED IT WITH HOLIDAY LIGHTS, CUT HOLES FOR THT EYES AND SCRI ...
Posted Friday, February 5th 2010 at 6:30AM
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HARRIET JACOBS, BORN A SLAVE IN 1813, ESCAPED IN 1835 AND HID IN HER GRANDMOTHER’S ATTIC FOR SEVEN YEARS BEFORE SNEAKING ON A BOAT TO FREEDOM IN PHILADELPHIA. “WHO CAN BLAME SLAVES FOR BEING CUNNING,” SHE WROTE. “IT IS THE ONLY WEAPON OF THE WEAK ...
Posted Friday, February 5th 2010 at 5:20AM
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IF YOU WANT JUST ONE TASTE OF THE ESSENTIAL STUPIDITY OF THE POLITICIZATION OF THE ABDULMUTALLAB INVESTIGATION, YOU NEED ONLY LOOK AT TODAY’S “WASHINGTON POST” IN AN ARTICLE TITLED: “CRITICISM OF OBAMA ON NATIONAL SECURITY LIKELY TO REMAIN A BIG ISSU ...
Posted Thursday, February 4th 2010 at 4:14PM
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Speaking Thursday morning at the National Prayer Breakfast, a conciliatory President Barack Obama urged attendees to bypass grievances in their efforts to push forward morally and socially responsible policy.
But at the same time, he made it clear ...
Posted Thursday, February 4th 2010 at 3:29AM
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ON HIS TV SHOW “HARDBALL” LAST NIGHT, HOST CHRIS MATTHEWS REVEALED THAT HE HAD SEEN THE OSCAR NOMINATED FILM “AVATAR” AND FOR AN HOUR HE SAID HE FORGOT THAT THE ALEN CHARACTERS, THE NA’VI, WERE BLUE.
"I'm sitting there in the theater with my 3-D ...
Posted Wednesday, February 3rd 2010 at 2:20PM
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FIFTY YEARS AFTER HENRIETTA LACKS DIED OF CERVICAL CANCER IN THE “COLORED” WARD AT JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL IN 1951, HER DAUGHTER FINALLY GOT A CHANCE TO SEE THE LEGACY SHE HAD UNKNOWINGLY LEFT TO SCIENCE. MS. LACKS-PULLUM GASPED. “OH GOD,” SHE SAID. ...
Posted Tuesday, February 2nd 2010 at 10:29PM
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CNN broadcast the entire event LIVE.
MSNBC braodcast the entire event and replayed it again later ("with their pants down" said Jon Stewart).
Fox News began broadcasting it but stopped when they realized it wasn't going their way.
Here ...
Posted Tuesday, February 2nd 2010 at 9:13AM
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THE MUNDANE LUNCHEONETTE REMINDS US THAT A CATACLYSMIC SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION TOOK PLACE OVER THE RIGHT TO BE ORDINARY. IT WAS HERE, AT THIS LUNCHEONETTE COUNTER, THAT FOUR 17 YEAR OLD FRESHMEN AT THE ALL-BLACK AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE OF N ...
Posted Monday, February 1st 2010 at 7:45PM
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“THEY HEAR THE STORY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING AND ROSA PARKS. BUT THE IMMEDIACY OF IT, WHAT IT WOULD HAVE FELT LIKE, HOW HUMILIATING IT WAS, HOW UNFAIR IT WAS EVERY DAY, I THINK THE EMOTIONAL PART OF THAT IS FADING. I’M GLAD TO RESTORE IT, TO TRY TO H ...
Posted Monday, February 1st 2010 at 7:24PM
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“THE COOL THING ABOUT HIM IS THAT ANYBODY WHO HAS TREPIDATION ABOUT THE SUBJECT, HE IS INSTANTLY DISARMING, SO HE GETS PEOPLE TO OPEN UP A LOT ABOUT IT, THOUGH THEY NORMALLY WOULDN’T. THERE IS AN ASSUMPTION WHEN IT’S A BLACK PERSON TALKING ABOUT RAC ...
Posted Saturday, January 30th 2010 at 10:28AM
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