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Joshuah Bearman
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Mexico May Be Having A Tough Year
With the Grand Guignol that is the drug-fueled civil war gripping the country. The LA Times, trying to summon the glory of its former self as a top notch international paper, is covering its backyard well, with timelines, indexes, interactive…
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With The Fire Threat Waning, Let Us Reconsider The Legacy of the Mt. Wilson Observatory
Praise be to the slightly moist, changing winds — they helped spare Mt. Wilson. Or so it seems for now. Deep breath taken. And now please allow me to pull from the files a feature I wrote for the LA…
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With Those Super Sweet Coifs, How Could It Not Be
…that Cotton Top Tamarins are Metallica fans? Thanks to one Professor Charles Snowdon of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the world finally has some answers on a vexing issue of our time! While the rest of us were content to…
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On Film Criticism
Yesterday, I spent part of the morning arguing with a friend as to the ongoing importance of film criticism. He said that film critics were like bees in September: dying slowly and stinging wildly in their final days. I said:…
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Crafty Cardboard
In ninth grade we all took some kind of school district test that was supposed to provide career guidance based on your personal preferences. There were lots of questions — about classes, grades, interests, etc. — and at the end…
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When The Perfect Story and Perfect Writer Are Matched
You get this incredible Sunday NYTimes Magazine piece from a couple weeks back by Jack Hitt. Hitt never goes wrong anyhow, but this odd tale of Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic’s hiding in plain sight in Belgrade as a long-haired…
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Remember When We Used to Print Things We Found on the Internet?
Remember when you used to read funny things on the Internet and print them out? Me neither. But I guess I did, because I just was rooting around in some old files and found this piece of paper on which…
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Squirrel Destiny: A Match Made in Heaven (Or, Rather, on the Internet)
All I know is, someone needs to hook up this guy:
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Up Yours Some More, Told You So Edition
So Richard Greenfield, the ding dong who predicted failure for Pixar’s oh-so-risky Up, and the NY Times media reporter who helped spread the false doubt with out question have issued an apology. Or at least, the reporter filed a new…
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But what if I believe in Bigfoot AND werewolves?
Science Daily says that British historian Brian Regal says that Darwinian evolution killed werewolves, replacing that myth with another sylvan mystery, our old friend Bigfoot. Not sure I’m entirely buying, since the humanoid half-man is not exactly a nineteenth century…
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Viva Sanford!
Hypocrisy aside, I like the guy now that I’ve read his deeply captivating love letter emails. Finally, one of those Republicans seems to feel genuine emotion, like their distant cousins, the humans.