After playing NYtimes Letterboxed for a bit, I wanted to try practicing and getting better at solving with less required words. Discovering this app, I came in with the expectation of a similar experience but with infinite games. Maybe I’m a stickler, but this was not the same experience....
While Rosetta would keep company with the likes of Mattie from Charles Portis’ True Grit, Ellen from Kaye Gibbons’ Ellen Foster, and Lydia from Molly Gloss’ The Jump-off Creek, she must answer for herself whether freedom can be gained through disguise and bloodshed, and if the resulting s...
It asked, “If there weren’t weapons, did we need to go to war?” but the Post didn’t answer this one directly — it was too tempting to craft a reply that makes Bush look stupid and Kerry look presidential. “President Bush says yes, because even if Saddam Hussein didn’t have...
It wasn’t until much later that I came to realize that only the Democrats are allowed to employ God as a campaign worker. During Election 2000, Professor of Political Science Paul Kendor noted in a NYTimes column that that God must be a Democrat: “George W. Bush was pilloried for ...
What the NYTimes’ Frank Bruni found so endearing about Obama’s teeth was the number of inventive ways Obama was able to get the word ‘liar’ past them. “Above all, he found his ability to say “liar,” or some approximation of it. “What Governor Romney said just isn’t true,”...
After playing NYtimes Letterboxed for a bit, I wanted to try practicing and getting better at solving with less required words. Discovering this app, I came in with the expectation of a similar experience but with infinite games. Maybe I’m a stickler, but this was not the same experience....
Television could be described as ‘imagination in a box’. We are entertained by vicariously participating in the story line. What entertains us the most? Based on the most popular TV series, NCIS, the CSI franchises, etc, the answer is undoubtedly murder, mayhem, war, destruction, occultic...
Television could be described as ‘imagination in a box’. We are entertained by vicariously participating in the story line. What entertains us the most? Based on the most popular TV series, NCIS, the CSI franchises, etc, the answer is undoubtedly murder, mayhem, war, destruction, occultic...
That is the argument offered whenever the Democrats (unless you believe it was a Republican that leaked the NIE to the NYTimes) leak secret information ‘for the good of the country’ on the theory the country would be better off with the Democrats in charge. The leaked NEI estimate in ...
The global economy is so concentrated that 98% of all international transactions pass through a single financial clearinghouse in Belgium called the ‘Swift Network’ — as the NYTimes so helpfully revealed to the enemy in 2008. But there is not yet a functioning global religious system. Through...