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character driven: John Logan’s “Red” →

“I got to see Red this weekend. The big 2010 Tony winner for Best Play so my expectations were high. Let’s just say, I didn’t love it. My reaction is sort of in the middle. I’m not sure there really was a captivating story there – there was some fantastic dialogue and exchanges, sure. But, it was a play that maybe could have taken more risks; could have explored the ideas and themes...

Jun 30th

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Jun 26th

More NYT OP-ED: Worse Than a Nightmare →

“We’re like a compulsive gambler plunging ever more deeply into debt in order to wager on a rigged game. There is no victory to be had in Afghanistan, only grief. We’re bulldozing Detroit while at the same time trying to establish model metropolises in Kabul and Kandahar. We’re spending endless billions on this wretched war but can’t extend the unemployment benefits of Americans suffering...

Jun 26th

NYT OP-ED: Worse Than a Nightmare →

“Those who are so fascinated with counterinsurgency, from its chief advocate, Gen. David Petraeus, all the way down to the cocktail-hour kibitzers inside the Beltway, seem to have lost sight of a fundamental aspect of warfare: You don’t go to war half-stepping. You go to war to crush the enemy. You do this ferociously and as quickly as possible. If you don’t want to do it, if you have qualms...

Jun 26th

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Jun 26th

Rolling Stone broke interview ground rules with... →

soupsoup: The command has concluded from its own review of events that McChrystal was betrayed when the journalist quoted banter among the general and his staff, much of which they thought was off the record. They contend that the magazine inaccurately depicted the attribution ground rules for the interviews. “Many of the sessions were off-the-record and intended to give [reporter Michael...

Jun 25th

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David Foster Wallace on FaceTime →

“In Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace wrote that within the reality of the book, videophones enjoyed enormous initial popularity but then after a few months, most people gave it up. Why the switch back to voice? The answer, in a kind of trivalent nutshell, is: (1) emotional stress, (2) physical vanity, and (3) a certain queer kind of self-obliterating logic in the microeconomics of...

Jun 25th

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peterfeld: ABC News video showing more evidence of oil washing ashore along Florida and Alabama beaches. Dolphins, now threatened by contaminated water, air and food, are crowding into untainted bayous, where their population has increased tenfold and they must now compete with each other for food, and are also threatened by sharks also fleeing the oil. So far 47 dolphins have beached...

Jun 25th

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Hallucinations in Hospital Pose Risk to the... →

“Disproportionately affecting older people, a rapidly growing share of patients, hospital delirium affects about one-third of patients over 70, and a greater percentage of intensive-care or postsurgical patients, the American Geriatrics Society estimates. A delirious patient happens almost every day,” said Dr. Manuel N. Pacheco, director of consultation and emergency services at Mount...

Jun 21st

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What's Up With All The GIANT Android Phones? →

“Daring Fireball’s John Gruber pointed this out the other day, and it’s worth asking a few questions: Do people really want a giant, hulking phone in their pocket all day? If so, who? Is the extra screen size worth the size and heft? Didn’t the Hummer go out of style last decade?”

Jun 17th

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character driven - back from the trip →

Wordpress reblog! - My girlfriend Jane’s post on our trip, Delta and coming home… “I’m back from the big Spain adventure. It was a pretty incredible time – I haven’t been out of the country in years, and I forgot that feeling of exhilaration you get being in unfamiliar territory for over a week and coming home. Your old routine seems vaguely erased, but still existent. And...

Jun 17th

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