Daily Archives: October 27, 2011
Occupy My Brain
Posted on October 27, 2011 188 Comments
Question today in e-mail: [Today’s] Big Idea got me to noticing that you haven’t weighed in on the Occupy phenom — curious, that. Staying out of it? Not so much staying out of it as recognizing that I have some complicated thoughts about it, and I need to figure out exactly what I’m thinking before […]
Further Proof Bacon Cat Will Never Die
Posted on October 27, 2011 20 Comments
Ghlaghghee is featured in Gene Weingarten’s column in the Washington Post today. Enjoy. Update, 5:08pm: And a rebuttal, also in the Post. Also featuring my cat. It’s a banner news day for Ghlaghghee!
The Big Idea: N.K. Jemisin
Posted on October 27, 2011 13 Comments
I have admiration for writer N.K. Jemisin. Not only because she’s one of the most accomplished and exciting fantasy writers to arrive in the last few years — as the praise and award nominations for the Inheritance Trilogy series of books gives evidence for — but because she looks up from the computer more than […]
Dear Angels: Hire Kim Ng
Posted on October 27, 2011 11 Comments
The Los Angeles Times has a terrific opinion piece by Helene Elliott on why the Angels baseball club (I believe at this point, the team’s full name is The California Angels of Los Angeles in Anaheim Where Disneyland Is, or some such) should hire Kim Ng as their new general manager. Ng has been an […]
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