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Sunday, September 16th, 2007

Episode 33

This week:

Old Maids vs. the Salvation Army
As Billy Walsh might say, Suits Suck
You think it can’t possibly get any worse, and then it does

Fun Fact #1: Japanese desperate housewives moving large quantities of foreign currency
Fun Fact #2 Ethan Hawke’s great-uncle is Tennessee Williams
Fun Fact #3: Jane Fonda caused global warming

 
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Monday, September 10th, 2007

Episode 32

We’re back!
This week:

Giuliani gets the Matt Bai treatment
Everyone earns a Second Life
It’s deuce . . . time to PUMP UP THE JAM

Fun Fact #1: you better remember your verbal score because it matters
Fun Fact #2: in Malibu, rehab beds outnumber hotel rooms

 
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

Hiatus

“Somebody Swiped My Sunday Times!” is on Hiatus until after Labor Day. No one reads the Times when they’re at the Hamptons anyway, right?
See you in September!

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Episode 31

We’re back! It’s been a while…

Somewhere between travel brochure and inspirational tract is the new U.S. passport.
Dorm life on the Hudson
When is a bike not a status symbol but a painfully forced metaphor of the
fecklessness of this country? When it’s a bike with no brakes!

Fun Fact #1: Upscale jails that cost more [...]

 
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007

Episode 30

We’re Back…

Keep vultures like Paul Haggis far, far away from this story
The Sunday Magazine identifies the next health-related military scandal
The real estate section finds at least a couple of people who aren’t ashamed of admitting where they got all that money for the down payment

Fun Fact of the Week: The wheel in the closet is [...]

 
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Monday, February 26th, 2007

Episode 29

The New York Times Sunday Magazine says that some children might be better off left behind
It’s all about the Normans, yeah
David Brooks says, “Give it up, Grup!”

Fun Fact of the Week #1: Fashion editors finally understand what business editors endure as they realize that they can’t afford the business they cover.
Fun Fact of the [...]

 
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Monday, February 12th, 2007

Episode 28

Hey, you’re supposed to tip those guys?
Is everyone clear about which word they want to ban?
In one fell swoop, the Modern Love editor dismantles the entire column

Fun Fact of the Week #1: Don’t forget to take your $60 credit on your taxes this year.
Fun Fact of the Week #2: Gentlemen, you’re off the [...]

 
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Sunday, February 4th, 2007

Episode 27

Can’t they all just get along?
Of course it was only a matter of time before someone would figure out that replicating the experience of crossing the desert in search of work in el norte could be fun for the entire family
Hey, Charles Isherwood is saying what we’re thinking!

Fun Fact of the Week #1: When the [...]

 
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Episode 26

What, it’s not like Doctors Without Borders are saints or something . . . oh wait.
Food, it turns out, is more than the sum of its parts
Robert Moses’ critics get the intellectual equivalent of the Cross-Bronx Expressway through their old ideas with two new exhibits on the man we know as the Power Broker

Fun Fact [...]

 
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007

Episode 25

Bush raises taxes for health care and people get pissed — dude can’t win, can he?
People, it’s just a fetus! (We kid! We kid!)
Joe Queenan’s astonishing new essay will have you laughing in the aisles and rolling in your seats

Fun Fact of the Week #1: The sad thing is that Homebody/Kabul will make more [...]

 
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