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The last good website.
Joined November 2019
"How different would the movie industry look if Siskel & Ebert had lived longer?" FUNBAG:
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Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking...
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The Washington Post dropped a remarkable weekend editorial that ran under the headline “Ready for some football.”
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There’s a dilemma near the end of Iron Duke. The titular character in sportswriter John R. Tunis’s 1938 novel has to decide whether to run in the season-ending intercollegiate track meet; all of...
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It's the return of The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off!
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Welcome back to The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off, where Kelsey and Chris attempt to complete the technical challenges from the newest season of The Great British Bake Off in their own home kitche...
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Everything you need to know about the girlboss ants that give birth to another species in order to exploit their offspring (slay ant queen!)
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This month, there’s one story on everybody’s minds. I’m speaking, of course, about the Iberian harvester ant queens who can clone ants of an entirely different species to breed a subaltern army of...
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Defector has outlived these things:
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Five years is a long time to exist. Let’s take a moment to remember some things Defector has outlived:
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Our favorite Defector blogs from the last five years:
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In celebration of Defector’s fifth birthday, a bunch of staffers have selected their favorite Defector blogs. If you’re only just now becoming familiar with the site, consider this something like a...
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"Part of what makes Defector work is that it aims to accomplish much of what a good bar aims to accomplish: It welcomes patrons into a place where they might have a laugh, learn a few things, and pass the time more pleasantly than they otherwise would."
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Defector has officially been publishing blogs for five years. Allow me to regale you with some of our accomplishments: As I sit here now and think about what it means to make it to our fifth birthd...
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"The sensation of listening to a new episode of 'In Our Time' has never felt to me like an escape or a distraction so much as a great plunging in."
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Melvyn Bragg, host of the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time since its very first episode back in 1998, has greeted me in the same delightfully brusque manner hundreds and hundreds of times. Hello. In...
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"The cost of building a company on theft should be the company itself. It should be everything you worked for because really, you didn’t work for it: You stole it."
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There is an easy answer to the question “How long does it take to write a book?” but it is not a true one. The easy answer is the duration between when you actually start putting your pen down on the...
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Jannik Sinner is good enough to beat literally everyone else, but he needs to find something extra to take on his rival.
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Men’s tennis is just Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz hurtling toward one another, with loud and incandescent results. Since Sinner returned to the tour in May after a three-month suspension, the...
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Israel–Premier Tech’s presence at La Vuelta is ruining the race:
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After organizers cut short Stage 11 of the Vuelta a España to avoid mass protests at the finish line in Bilbao, they were faced with a choice: protect their race or protect Israel–Premier Tech....
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Nottingham Forest fired its manager and hired his polar opposite:
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Where there’s smoke, there tends to be a fired manager, and so it was no surprise that Nottingham Forest announced on Monday that it had parted ways with Nuno Espírito Santo. Following Forest’s 3-0...
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The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off fancies a go at Cake Week:
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Welcome back to The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off, where Kelsey and Chris attempt to complete the technical challenges from the newest season of The Great British Bake Off in their own home kitche...
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The Washington Post editorial board issues a powerful statement: Football.
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There’s a dilemma near the end of Iron Duke. The titular character in sportswriter John R. Tunis’s 1938 novel has to decide whether to run in the season-ending intercollegiate track meet; all of...
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