by Adam | Monday 8 February 2010
From a New York Times article about karaoke killings in Asia. Karaoke-related killings are not limited to the Philippines. In the past two years alone, a Malaysian man was fatally stabbed for hogging the microphone at a bar and a...
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by Adam | Thursday 12 March 2009
Since college, I've been trying my absolute best to quell the part of me that typifies a Reactionary Jew, such a person who shouts at the wind and lives with perpetual high blood pressure because of the world's sinister movements...
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by Adam | Sunday 8 March 2009
When asked how the residents of the Fulton Houses, who are (by some standards) the permanent citizens of difficult economic times, are handling the recession, James shrugs
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by Adam | Sunday 28 September 2008
Based on an essay by Edmund Wilson. In Jackson Square, the spidermums, spotted in Newport ash, are blooming like supplicants. A pack of cougars, celebrating a second marriage at the Magnolia bakery, are flaunting plastic diadems. In Central Park,...
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by Adam | Friday 20 April 2007
I suppose it's blase to beat up on anyone in this administration these days, but honestly, this was too much. Since today is National Apathy Day (chemically, at least), I wanted to posit some kind of passing/flailing/stabbing moral inquisition...
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by Adam | Thursday 29 March 2007
Today's message is brought to you by The Decemberists, whose hyperliterate songs and musical acumen gleam in live performances such as the one I attended just this past week. Truthfully, I really just enjoyed this picture from the show. In...
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by Adam | Friday 15 December 2006
I am almost ashamed to admit that I spent the better part of two hours in the Barnes & Noble on the 21st and 6th today, dumbing myself into rage while reading Jimmy Carter's new book "Palestine, Peace Not Apartheid."...
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