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  • jack.styczynski wrote a new blog post: A second thought on names   1 hour, 47 minutes ago

    While my point today about checking the spelling of names is still valid, my response to Eugenia about not trusting people on their own names probably deserves an addendum.  First of all, I would agree that people are less likely to lie about their names than they are about their ages or titles, which definitely need verification [...]

  • Joe Walker wrote a new blog post: New York is Full of Beautiful People   2 hours, 41 minutes ago

    Flood-tide below me! I watch you face to face;
    Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! I see you also face to face.

    Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes! how curious you
    are to me!
    On the ferry-boats, the hundreds and hundreds [...]

  • Joe Walker wrote a new blog post: Capitalism and Art with David Simon & Other Smart People   2 hours, 41 minutes ago

    If you wanna see just the transcript and not my intro, click “continue reading” at the bottom of the post and scroll down until you get to the BOLD lettering.

    David Simon is from Baltimore. He makes a point of that in talks–he doesn’t live and has never been very interested in the nice places [...]

  • graham.kates wrote a new blog post: Engel Expects Reconciliation   1 day, 4 hours ago

    With his own reelection all but certain this year, Eliot Engel is free to focus on the Democratic party’s big campaign picture.

    Engel thinks “the likelihood is quite good” that Congress will pursue reconciliation in an effort to get its stalled Health Bill to President Obama’s desk. With the loss of the Democratic “super-majority” (by way [...]

  • Vineeth Thomas wrote a new blog post: Profile pitch: Closet cases   1 day, 5 hours ago

    Shawn Hollenbach is a stand up comedian, improv actor and songwriter. He created “Closet Cases,” a monthly show in New York City where gay performers tell their coming out stories on stage. The topic is interesting because coming out is supposed to be really difficult and dramatic but these comics have transformed it into something [...]