Brooklyn Skeptic » New York Times http://brooklynskeptic.net Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:29:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 All the colloquialisms fit to appropriate http://brooklynskeptic.net/2007/04/24/all-the-colloquialisms-fit-to-appropriate/ http://brooklynskeptic.net/2007/04/24/all-the-colloquialisms-fit-to-appropriate/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:03:20 +0000 Administrator http://brooklynskeptic.net/?p=45 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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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

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“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 [...]

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