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by paul constant
The Best of Slog: A Week of Poor People, Bigots, and Failed ...
It Is Better to Barely Try and to Give Up Than to Never Run at All: Tim Burgess is out of the mayor's race, and Goldy isn't running for city council. President Obama Did Something Awful: And Ansel Herz says that this is what you get, liberals. In Need...
From: The Stranger | By: Paul Constant | Saturday, May 18, 2013
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In the UK, Amazon Is a Welfare Queen
Zeljka Marosevic at Melville House tells us about a meeting yesterday that was held to discuss Amazon.com's taxes, or lack thereof: “What people will find particularly galling is that the amount Amazon is paying in tax is actually less than they are...
From: The Stranger | By: Paul Constant | Friday, May 17, 2013
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Introducing Yahoomblr?
On Monday, Yahoo is holding a press conference, according to TechCrunch. This comes after the company's recent buying spree, and it closely follows rumors that Yahoo is considering spending a billion dollars to buy Tumblr: On Monday, it seems that we...
From: The Stranger | By: Paul Constant | Friday, May 17, 2013
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Where the Information Hangs Free and Easy in the Wind, ...
The most honest piece to be published from Google's I/O Conference this week is a brief, satirical piece of science fiction published in Wired. “Hello.” The soft, froggy voice startled me. I turned around to face an approaching figure. It was Larry...
From: The Stranger | By: Paul Constant | Friday, May 17, 2013
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Trolololol
(Travis Nichols reads at Elliott Bay Book Company on Sunday, May 19 at 3pm. It's free.) I saw the weakest minds of my occupation destroyed by blog comments, hate-eating hysterical shivering, dragging themselves through message boards at dawn looking...
From: The Stranger | By: Paul Constant | Friday, May 17, 2013
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"What would you consider the number one priority in the ...
The filmmakers of Atlas Shrugged Part III want to know, so they've opened up an online survey. [ Comment on this story ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]...
From: The Stranger | By: Paul Constant | Friday, May 17, 2013
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Much Ado About Nothing: Whedon's Shakespeare Is Horny, ...
(Much Ado About Nothing was the Opening Night Gala film selection at SIFF tonight. It won't be screening again during the festival, but it opens nationwide on June 7th, so if you missed out tonight, you'll be able to see it soon.) Elsa Guillet-ChapuisClark...
From: The Stranger | By: Paul Constant | Friday, May 17, 2013
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Stephen King's Son, a Novel Written by a Troll, and the ...
Tonight: If you're not going to see Kay Ryan tonight, you have a few other attractive readings options. First, Gary Greenberg is at Town Hall reading from The Book of Woe: The Making of DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry, which is a look at a book that...
From: The Stranger | By: Paul Constant | Thursday, May 16, 2013
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The Birth of Partying
Electric Literature's blog The Outlet brings this to our attention: “Using ‘wicked’ as a term of approval” was first recorded in Fitzgerald’s 1920 novel This Side of Paradise, said Churchwell. And the act of partying (as a verb) was first used...
From: The Stranger | By: Paul Constant | Thursday, May 16, 2013
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Fox News Loathes Failure, Unless That Failure Turns Out ...
Watch Tesla go from a Stimulus boondoggle to a thrilling private sector success on Fox News in just over two minutes: [ Comment on this story ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]...
From: The Stranger | By: Paul Constant | Thursday, May 16, 2013
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Star Trek Into Darkness: Less Space, More Opera
"For the last time, I do not look like an otter!" Though it's hard to write meaningfully about Star Trek Into Darkness without spoiling anything—it's packed with surprises—this review will be spoiler-free. Which means I have to keep the specifics...
From: The Stranger | By: Paul Constant | Thursday, May 16, 2013
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