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The last good website.
Joined November 2019
CBS News turning itself over to the propagandizing widow of a right-wing provocateur is bad on its own terms, but also nothing we haven't seen before. What stands out in this case is just how cheap and desperate and disconnected it all felt.
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Last Wednesday, newly minted CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss dropped the big news. As she walked through the CBS newsroom, Weiss looked into the camera, mechanically moved her hands around, and...
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What is the tule fog, and will it ever go away?
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California’s Central Valley is a 400-mile long expanse, penned in by the Sierra Nevadas to the East and the Coast Ranges to the west. The flatland is composed of remarkably fertile soil, as both...
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Filmmaker Ian Bell on ‘WTO/99’ and the legacy of the Battle in Seattle:
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In late November and early December 1999, the World Trade Organization convened in Seattle for a round of conferences and negotiations. Tens of thousands of protesters hit the streets to meet them,...
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Two nights playing with fire at Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce's steakhouse:
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As celebrity restaurant mascots, athletes offer a tidy sense of vertical integration: Why not supply the very calories they need to expend on the field? I’m surprised there are so...
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Let's make some butternut squash soup:
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Butternut squash soup is not the sort of thing to have Deep Thoughts about.
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LeBron James and the Lakers benefit from the duality of Dillon Brooks:
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The present-day Lakers-Suns rivalry seems to spring from profound mutual disgust. This is best glimpsed in microcosm, via the “rivalry” between LeBron James and Dillon Brooks, two hammy fellows who...
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Law enforcement teams up with Washington Post to make a mess of investigation into Brown University shooting:
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Saturday afternoon a man barged into a lecture hall on the campus of Brown University, in Providence, and fired an assault weapon at the 60 or so students assembled there. Eleven people were shot,...
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CBS News hitches its wagon to these two duds:
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Last Wednesday, newly minted CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss dropped the big news. As she walked through the CBS newsroom, Weiss looked into the camera, mechanically moved her hands around, and...
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The Bengals left it to their fans to clean up the snow:
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The Cincinnati Bengals are cheap. There is a good chance you already know this, as it is a longstanding issue. When Takeo Spikes joined the team in 1998, the team gave players used jockstraps. As of...
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You know who got obliterated yesterday? Well, not Philip Rivers. Eat that with a pointed stick, you morbid ghouls.
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You know who got obliterated yesterday? Well, not Philip Rivers. Eat that with a pointed stick, you morbid ghouls. We expect that the number and conditions of the many casualties from this most...
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