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Archive for November 20th, 2010

Saturday, November 20th, 2010

People Unclear on the Concept

Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson is good on a lot of issues, but his belief that the privatization fairy will necessarily grant our wish for kinder, gentler airport security is childlike in its naivete. It’s even shockingly behind the best recent right-wing/libertarian thinking on privatization of government services.
Johnson offers a simplistic account of the [...]

Saturday, November 20th, 2010

Dogtown

Allie Brosh’s killer app is that she writes well. The cartoons are nice, but precision with language in the prose sections is what makes the chronicle of moving her two dogs from Montana to Oregon hilarious.
It’s odd that she has a real-life understanding of how a barking dog perceives being yelled at and nevertheless continues [...]