Buy Or Don’t Buy

In the fall of my junior year, I lived with a Macedonian exchange student named Orhan. He was a pleasant enough fellow, except that he was homesick and so spent all hours of the day Skyping in Macedonian. I soon grew used to this, and learned to treat garbled Macedonian as just another ambient noise [...]

Another QuickHits edition!
Don’t Buy: The Jonas Brother Engagement — This is what happens when you make a 21-year-old wear a promise ring.
Buy: Sarah Palin’s Resignation — Two reasons: 1) She went out on top with a resignation speech that was full of the folksy sports metaphors and rhetorical nonsensicals that make a Palin speech a [...]

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Chuck Grassley is a United States Senator from Iowa. He has been in politics since 1959. He is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Finance Committee, of which he has twice been the Chair. He is also a grown man capable of expressing himself like an [...]

John Mullin is a contributing sportswriter for SI.com, which means that in theory it is his job to understand statistics and the English language. But in the middle of his ranking of the NFL’s best QB-RB combos is this gem:
An offense 32nd in rushing average is just that: average. Even with [Peyton] Manning.
There are 32 [...]

So, apologies for the lack of posts. Half of us graduated/moved this week, which gives us a good excuse. The rest of them, I have no idea what they’re up to.

Aziz Ansari is a comedic actor. You know him from “Human Giant” and “Parks and Recreation.” But like many comic actors, he also does stand-up comedy. His stand-up comedy is funny, as proven by this clip right here:

In the new Judd Apatow film Funny People, Ansari apparently plays ‘Randy,’ a Dane Cook-style terrible comedian who [...]

If the Senate Republican caucus was “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” Mitch McConnell would be The Brains, John Ensign would be The Looks and Arlen Specter would be The Wild Card.

Sometimes Specter is a hard-core Republican. He went at Anita Hill like a wild dog during Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court hearings and he was mixed [...]

The Brothers Bloom is a globe-trotting, rip-roaring con man film directed by Rian Johnson that comes out this summer. I loved Brick, Johnson’s first film, and I’m anxious to see how he manages without that film’s ’40s throwback style to lean on. Judging from the film’s first 10 minutes, some Buys and Don’t Buys:
Don’t Buy: [...]

Somehow, the video for Coldplay’s “Life in Technicolor ii” escaped my notice until today:

Is it bad to find the puppet-Chris Martin more interesting than the real one?