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Daily Archives: September 13th, 2009

The Times They are Changin’

One salutary by-product of all the hate and vitriol spilling out of the right is that Maureen Dowd appears to have woken up to the fact that there are more important things than Maureen Dowd. She actually wrote a reasonably good column today, in which she deals seriously with a serious subject-the racial animus behind […]

Today’s Comics

Dedicated to my brother-in-law, he of the terrible puns.

Environmental outrages

The Times has begun a major new series on water pollution, detailing the degradation of our water’s quality by the usual suspects, and the attendant health consequences. This looks to be a great piece of journalism, and is further proof that despite print journalism’s many failings, we need outlets like the Times to survive in […]