Category Archives: Vance Parker

Words | The New York Review of Books

My self-serving faith in articulacy was reinforced: not merely evidence of intelligence but intelligence itself. Written English as a spoken dialect is unusual enough that those who can manage complete sentences are regarded as “gifted.” Anyone who can speak ex … Continue reading

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Book Review – The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ – By Philip Pullman – NYTimes.com

… those of us who can never forgive the emperor Constantine, not just for making Christianity a state dogma, but for making humanity hostage to the boring village quarrels and Bronze Age fables that were drawn from what remains the … Continue reading

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No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto by Michael Hartl | Tau Day (6.28), 2010

If you were still a partisan at the beginning of this section, your head has now exploded.

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Ann Coulter went home : Macleans OnCampus

‘We came together because we’re angry about the fact that Ann Coulter’s views risked being exposed on our campus,’ said University of Ottawa student Mike Fancie.’ Those touchy Canadians come roaring out of their hinterlands to harass the Bad Girl … Continue reading

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Jokerman

The shock of the old

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Using a Lawyer’s Words Against a Client – DealBook Blog – NYTimes.com

Defense lawyers know how important it is to try to counter the initial wave of negative publicity about their clients, especially corporate chieftains who are often perceived by the public as guilty until proven innocent. The Court of Public Opinion … Continue reading

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What he saw at the meltdown

Ben Bernacke, Tim Geitner and Sheila Bair are still in office, but Hank (the “Tank”) Paulson is on the beach and the newly published author of this inside-the-Beltway first-person I-was-there. So, what do you get the man who has everything? … Continue reading

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What’s in your hand?

In Your Hands Adam Clayton Powell

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Cut This Story! – The Atlantic (January/February 2010)

One reason seekers of news are abandoning print newspapers for the Internet has nothing directly to do with technology. It’s that newspaper articles are too long. On the Internet, news articles get to the point. Newspaper writing, by contrast, is … Continue reading

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Giants

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