Somebody Swiped My Sunday Times!

Episode 55

admin — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:32:21 +0000

The Democratic nomination process seems to be over, and it’s time to
evaluate the candidate . . .
- for example, is he “pragmatic” just slick?
- And we evaluate the “that which does not kill you makes you stronger” theory of primaries
Frank rich. MoDo. (we discuss).
Jen explains why the cost of oil goes up when the value of the dollar drops, after Scott gets (typically) confused
Fun Fact: Russian Prime Minister Dmitri A. Medvedev’s favorite band isDeep Purple
How to avoid having your parents ever come visit
Title IX is killing our daughters

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:51:33 +0000

Who killed Eight Belles? We all did.
Frank Rich MoDo
If you can’t beat em’ join em’
Yeah, she freelances, I comment on her blog. What of it?
Boss asks you to swim naked? Maybe he graduated from a New York City
public school.
When you’re done pandering to Joe Lunch Pail, visit the Jell-o Museum
upstate.
Watching the detectives. Damn, they look fine.
They’re using GPS technology to beat red-light cameras. Good for them.
God, what the hell is wrong with these people?

admin — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:53:49 +0000

Koreans are falling asleep standing up and Harvard is to blame. . .
. . . and this as the world’s supply of neurotic intellectuals from
Harvard is threatened
Frank/MoDo — MoDo uses the inevitable Obama basketball metaphor while Rich notices that there are still a bunch of Ron Paul voters
out there
Public radio stops being boring and starts getting real — Psyche!
But what NPR should really do is hire Wesley Snipes to do a show for
ex-cons, since that seems to be a faster growing population than
Morning Edition listeners
All Day I Dream About Sex
Ten bucks says the Public Editor receives tons of mail about showing a
boobie on the front page of the Travel section
Mugabe Sucks
You may not want them in your backyard, but you will want them in your
portfolio
Get married, become integrated, but never stop being campy

admin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:49:46 +0000

President McCain?
MoDo loves vices, Kristof is a little bit racist and Frank Rich is a little boring, to be honest
Looking for woonerf in all the wrong places
Rescued from oblivion: the philosophy degree
Joe Queenan
You can’t go home again and make us believe that all your old friends and neighbors are huge racists
Barack Obama — our first openly black president
It’s like April Fools’ Day (Observed)

admin — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:43:15 +0000

Oh yeah, there’s that whole war thing
Julia Allison’s connection with the Chavez regime finally uncovered
The 2008 baseball season begins, the final years for the Shea and Yankee Stadia
The difference between MoDo and Frank Rich is that Rich gets about 750 more words, few of which anybody seems to actually read
Fun Fact: People will always eat out, no matter what Paul Krugman writes
Fun Fact: As the number of foreclosures increases, the foreclosure industry thrives
MTV’s My Super Sweet 16 as SEC sting
White people like book deals
White people also like Dave Eggers
In the wake of the Spitzer scandal, new questions about transactional companionship
Did you really not get what Darren Star is about?
Students at Harvard play to the strength of the demographic

admin — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:05:40 +0000

Hillary Clinton puffs up her resumé, just like us!
MoDo vs. Rich
You may or may not have realized that the peace symbol isn’t actually a Mercedes-Benz logo
If White People like multilingualism, they should really love Suriname
Fun Fact: Last year Girl Scouts sold 1.18 million boxes in Nassau County, about one box for every man, woman and child in the county
When buying crap at the Gap is like purchasing window tint on a new Chevy
Iditarod or death march?
“On Day of Resurrection, a Church Unveils Its New Organ” — heh
Aspirational schadenfreude

admin — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:39:25 +0000

- Is everyone in the country falling for the Clinton campaign’s spin?
- Fortunately, we gave up douchebags for lent
- A crass plug for Ask.com
- The call of the girl
- How can you have half a delegate?
- I got two words for you — Cass Sunstein
- Trade that trucker hat for an asshat

admin — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:17:48 +0000

admin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:01:33 +0000

(Single) SEX (education) $ELL$
It almost makes you want to stop paying rent
Shout Out of the Week goes to the founders of Manic Panic, makers ofcheap hair dye since 1978
Put that in a paper bag and huff it
You would think going to church was a good thing
Luxury now means “$12 orange juice”
Atlantic City, Baby!
On Episode 33 we talked about Christoph Buchel’s controversial MASS MoCA piece — an update
Styles freelancers like to drop new words into the lexicon like, er, drunken sailors
People still play Scrabble?

admin — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:09:36 +0000

The Clinton campaign hits Stage IV bottle-polishing mode
That McCain story fizzles
MoDo and Frank Rich trade ledes
Who really gives a poop about publicists? Lazy writers?
Vaccinate your grubby little boy
From Saturday, some Philly love for New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson
Struggling for a place to take your underage companion? Never fear, for in New York it’s legal to take them, er, her to a bar
A shout-out to WFMU, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this
The future is cool. Mos def
When decriminalized prostitution doesn’t turn out to encourage the mom-and-pop enterprises city fathers anticipated, it’s time to rethink things
The Cory Booker generation revisits the concept of the non-profit