I just read this article in Wired Magazine, and it is a great piece of journalism. It’s about “griefers,” who are basically internet dorks who spend all their time trying to piss off other internet dorks. Also known as “trolls,” these guys (and they’re just about all dudes) can be found in every forum thread, [...]

Posted in Economics and Advertising, Internet Hi-Jinx, Writing 3 Comments »

I saw Cloverfield. I wrote some stuff about it here (spoilers ahoy).

Posted in Movies

The Times has a truly astonishing story about Giuliani’s political “ruthlessness” that is a must read. Mr. Giuliani paid careful attention to the art of political payback. When former Mayors Edward I. Koch and David N. Dinkins spoke publicly of Mr. Giuliani’s foibles, mayoral aides removed their official portraits from the ceremonial Blue Room at [...]

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Humbling thoughts from a BU Law alumna:I’m on a one-woman mission to talk people out of law school. Lots of people go to law school as a default. They don’t know what else to do, like I did. It seems like a good idea. People say a law degree will always be worth something even [...]

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Joe Gibbs retired. Not shocking, but interesting.

I was extremely hopeful about Joe Gibbs’s tenure when he returned to the team, and although it hasn’t been all rainbows and puppy dogs I have to say he did a pretty good job. They made the playoffs twice, and more importantly they have a stability and patience from [...]

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I’m on vacation in beautiful, sunny, marginally above freezing Florida right now, so I’m not going to write much, but I wanted to say a little something about Iowa.

I know it’s a big deal that Obama won, and that Hilary took third, and that Huckabee won, and that Giuliani finished well behind Ron! Paul!, but [...]

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