As the New York Times, which I read obsessively and love more than my own family, tries its darndest to recapture its waning readership, it has filled more and more of its pages (both online and off) with youth-friendly features like blogs and articles about fancy underwear. And boy does it work. Thursday is now
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So the half-assed, luke warm political insult slinging has begun. Sigh. I wish they would just all get together and have a nice slapfight and settle this like adults.
McCain is definitely pulling out ahead in this one if only because he has literally no shame. Case in point:
“Some minutes later, after the news conference had
Read this paragraph closely and answer the question below.
“From a distance, both might seem like frivolous fun. Some teamwork. Sex jokes. Middle school toilet humor. Throwing stuff at one another. But get closer, and you may find thwarted ambition, humiliations. A stolen dream, perhaps, or a ball upside the head.”
Is this passage about:
a) Dodgeball
b) Comedy [...]