February 2011
Law & Order: SVU 12.09 "Gray" Recap →
But the case turns out to be tricky. Bethany had been drunk at a party. She passed out and woke up to Chuck raping her. She reported it to the university and they brought Chuck in front of a university disciplinary committee. He got community service and a blemish on his record. ADA Sonya Paxton returns to do some probation with SVU in order to regain her position within the DA’s office. The...
NOT long into Act I of “The Book of Mormon,” a new... →
Finally, a reason to go to Broadway!
For Mr. Parker, 41, and Mr. Stone, 39, who after 20 years of creative partnership speak in almost identical cadences, arriving on Broadway feels like the culmination of their life’s work. Starting with a college project, “Cannibal! The Musical” (about the American prospector Alferd Packer), they have made their savage if affectionate musical-theater sendups a...
Why Budget Cuts Don’t Bring Prosperity - David... →
Remember the German economic boom of 2010?
Germany’s economic growth surged in the middle of last year, causing commentators both there and here to proclaim that American stimulus had failed and German austerity had worked. Germany’s announced budget cuts, the commentators said, had given private companies enough confidence in the government to begin spending their own money again.
Well, it...
"Wait, you're telling me Reagan advocated that... →
Embarrassed Republicans Admit They’ve Been Thinking Of Eisenhower Whole Time They’ve Been Praising Reagan - The Onion
South Carolina has the lowest SAT/ACT scores in... →
Followed by North Carolina, Georgia and Texas.. four of the five states that do not have collective bargaining for educators and have deemed it illegal. The fifth, Virginia, ranks 44th.
Obviously that’s reflective of a lot of different factors (namely their Gonorrhea problem). But still, cool beans.
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Businessy People Love To
Jump through hoops
Do things holistically
Avoid fire drills
Duck and move
Throw things out the window
Sound like they are the TV announcer from Best in Show, basically
“The Canadian-born Bieber never plans on becoming an American citizen. “You guys...”
– Justin Bieber, on why he’ll never become an American citizen (via apsies)
Cool Opinion, Israel →
One comment by Aviad Pohoryles in the daily Maariv was entitled “A Bullet in the Back from Uncle Sam.” It accused Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of pursuing a naive, smug, and insular diplomacy heedless of the risks.
Who is advising them, he asked, “to fuel the mob raging in the streets of Egypt and to demand the head of the person who five minutes ago was...