by Adam | Friday 29 January 2010
Let me get this little bit out of the way right now: Louis Menand of The New Yorker wrote the following about "The Catcher in the Rye" ten years ago and I don't think it's been said any better...
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by Adam | Wednesday 27 January 2010
Friends, I hope you all will pause with me to mark to the 100th anniversary of the death of Thomas P. Crapper, the famous English plumber who helped revolutionize numerous components of what we know today as the modern...
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by Adam | Monday 25 January 2010
When a homeless person asks you "what's the best nation?" he or she is probably not waiting for you to say the United States of America. He or she would also probably not agree. If one is practiced in the...
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by Adam | Sunday 24 January 2010
Not trying to gloat or nothin' but...the Colts scored 24 unanswered points and won. Haiti won $100 from Justin and $54 from an anonymous reader (whom I've never met) who graciously pledged to send money to a charity that does...
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by Adam | Sunday 24 January 2010
As I write this, the New York Jets are up 17-6 over the Indianapolis Colts. Do I fear? No. It's the second quarter. And I've been watching Peyton Manning destroy my semi-beloved Houston Texans two times a year for literally...
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by Adam | Saturday 23 January 2010
This Sunday: the culmination of a bet with my friend Justin over the AFC Championship Game between the Jets and Colts. Justin has bet me $100 that the Jets are going to beat the Colts. I have told him that...
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by Adam | Thursday 21 January 2010
I'm a good Dem, but I never liked John Edwards. Not in 2008. Not even in 2004. And especially not now....
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by Adam | Tuesday 19 January 2010
Peggy Shapiro writes a little bit about the impressive Israeli response to the agony and disaster in Haiti. She may be a little too anxious to point out the flimsy responses by other parties to the emergency, but for a...
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by Adam | Monday 18 January 2010
Perhaps an indulgent exercise considering the tragedy we're all reading about, BUT... for those of you interested in following a controversy that is raging around the literary establishment these days (whatever any of that means), a few weeks ago, Katie...
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by Adam | Saturday 16 January 2010
I suppose I've reached that time in my life where my peers, the people around me start their deriding of the generation behind us. Perhaps it's the new decade, but they use adult words and idioms to do it...
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by Adam | Thursday 14 January 2010
Dear TFR Readers: I've missed you since we've been apart. Since 2009, the site has been updated, expanded, no more truncations, no more sadness. I look forward to servicing you in the least sexual way that such a statement suggests....
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