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State of the Media 09-09-09

I am watching the President of the United States give a speech to Congress on the LA Times website. I am watching a live video speech by a bi-racial leader of the free world on the website of a newspaper on a link that I found via Twitter. I am talking to people in real time using [...]
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Good Fences Make Good Blog Posts, or “Obama and the Age of Anger Fatigue”

As much as I’d like to be freezing in Chicago with the literati right now, I’m instead shockingly not freezing in Burlington, where a spring-like, mid-February rain gave me a free winter carwash this afternoon. Coming up with ideas to post to a non-themed blog is difficult because of the complete lack of “topic fences.” You’d [...]
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VIDEO: Bill Hicks on Letterman

David Letterman tried to ease his conscience the other night by airing this clip of comedian Bill Hicks that Letterman cut from his show about 15 years ago.
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Recession? I Call it a Vow of Poverty

During the Presidential election cycle, you heard Barack Obama say it at least a few dozen times: “We’re facing the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.” The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the housing market, and recent unemployment figures provide about as much inspiration as the thought of a George W. Bush worldwide speaking tour. (In [...]
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Tim Tebow, Man of the Century

It’s always fun to watch ESPN the morning after your alma mater wins its fourth major national sports championship in three years. That’s pretty much all I’ve been doing today, listening intently to the talking heads as they continuously lavish praise upon the University of Florida Gators football team and their great, fearless, immortal leader, [...]
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