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    Image of elinorwhyme elinorwhyme
    11/23/09

    In reply to They Call It 'The Final Solution'
    Ah I love The New York Times. Their trend stories are always about a year late. People in England are already so over Keep Calm and Carry On they are taking the piss out of it in books you can buy in paperback.
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    Image of WrittenPyramids WrittenPyramids
    11/23/09

    @elinorwhyme: In fact, the New York Times itself already covered this story! They seem to be months behind reading their own publications.
    [www.nytimes.com]
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    Image of blix blix
    11/23/09

    In reply to They Call It 'The Final Solution'
     
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    11/16/09

    In reply to All Wine Is Crap
    It's a really well-written article. The Nils Bohr quote at the end about the nature of belief and scientific verifiability alone makes the article worthy of a read. #wine
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    Image of Mo MoDo Mo MoDo
    11/16/09

    In reply to All Wine Is Crap
    All you have to do is pick any five adjectives at random. Fincky, yet foamy with an overconfident and wry pluckiness. #wine
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    11/16/09

    In reply to All Wine Is Crap
    Joshua Greene, editor and publisher of Wine and Spirits, who told me, "It is absurd for people to expect consistency in a taster's ratings. We're not robots."

    From the horse's mouth itself. Congratulations Joshua Greene, you just admitted that wine tasting is a fucking sham. #wine
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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    11/16/09

    In reply to All Wine Is Crap
    I was just in Rome for a week. Now, you can find Italian wine there which is not just drinkable, but pretty decent for 5 euros or less. I get that that wine needs to be imported to the US and that drives the price up here.

    But why the fuck is decent American wine so expensive in America? Why can't I buy something from California that costs 5 or 6 bucks and is totally decent? It really pisses me off. Rarely is something less than $10 even drinkable, and it's a real crapshoot even at that price point. #wine
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    Image of mfnher mfnher
    11/16/09

    In reply to All Wine Is Crap
    Meh, I don't think it's all crap. The big problem is tasting too many wines in too short a time. That's why Wine Spectator consistently rates higher alcohol wines with higher points. The alcohol bomb makes them stand out from the pack. It's also one of the reasons so many California wines completely suck. #wine
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    Image of shostakobitch shostakobitch
    11/16/09

    In reply to All Wine Is Crap
    I only buy Pouilly-Fuissé because of Cheech and Chong. #wine
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    Image of blix blix
    11/16/09

    In reply to All Wine Is Crap
    A plebian little article whose undercurrents of impertinence may amuse you with its presumption. #wine
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    Image of eatsshootsleaves eatsshootsleaves
    11/16/09

    @blix: A piquant, if unmerited, comment with penetrating notes of neo-bohemian sourness. Excellent with white fishes. 88/100. #wine
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    Image of blix blix
    11/16/09

    @eatsshootsleaves: Say, you've done this before. Well done. So many people don't understand. You should have seen the look on the face of the guy at the bodega when I asked for unoaked MD 20/20. #wine
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    Image of Spy from the Land of Rainpeople Spy from the Land of Rainpeople
    11/16/09

    @blix: I'm not up to speed on oenophilia, but I wonder what is the progress there in comparison to audiophilia.

    Audiophile magazines started as a reviews of records, then moved to reviewing amplifiers and transducers and finally ended up reviewing cables.

    In audiophile magazines there are reviews for things like Bedini Ultra-clarifier (a demagnetizer for compact disks.) Long ago I remember reading a wine publication that had a round-table discussion comparing tooth veneers used by the tasters.

    What kind of wine paraphernalia are getting sold in the wine publication these days? #wine
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    11/16/09

    In reply to All Wine Is Crap
    The worst lunch I ever attended consisted of me and my husband clawing each other in the legs while four twenty-something idiots spent several hours pretending to know things about wine. This eight-word post just brought that entire lost afternoon flooding back. F you, Hamilton. #wine
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    Image of Dickdogfood Dickdogfood
    11/13/09

    In reply to Early Favorite For Time Person of the Year: Something Stupid
    I won't be convinced that Time is at all serious about their brand of stupid unless they name Glenn Beck Man of the Year. Even "The Angry American" won't cut it. #media
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    Image of sanyucat sanyucat
    11/13/09

    In reply to Early Favorite For Time Person of the Year: Something Stupid
    How is Time still in print? It's the journalistic equivalent of scrapple. #media
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    11/13/09

    In reply to Early Favorite For Time Person of the Year: Something Stupid
    Wouldn't be surprised if their POTY was a hashtag. Like #iranelection. #lame #media
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/13/09

    In reply to Early Favorite For Time Person of the Year: Something Stupid
    Have you watched the CNN online newscast? It's two college kids doing the news from the bridge of the Enterprise but with most of the props missing. #media
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    Image of AzureTexan AzureTexan
    11/13/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: It's dead, Jim. #media
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/13/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: If there was no event that I was watching on one of their live channels, I've actually been known to leave the stationary shot of the White House or some other quiet thing open, rather than listen to the newbies blather. #media
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/13/09

    @Magister: Yeah, they make Wolf Blitzer sound like Edward R. Murrow. #media
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/13/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: More like Wolf Blitzer's producer because whenever I watch him, I can totally imagine Holly Hunter in his ear. #media
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/13/09

    @Magister: I know what you mean. I love Blitzer's idiotic tags to stories. For example, if Earth were blown up by the Martians, Blitzer would say on the outro, "The Earth has been blown up. Certainly a tragedy, and we will be following this." Jack Cafferty always looks at him as if he's a fly in Cafferty's soup. #media
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/13/09

    @TheBusinessGuy:
    What gets me is when he's "interviewing" a reporter or analyst to provide background and asks questions which he should be able to answer, if he's half as smart as his audience, but some producer's obviously telling him there's an interesting factoid somebody, somewhere may not have heard.

    The anchors on cnn.com were much the same way, except unlike Blitzer, I never expected them to know.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/13/09

    @Magister: After watching Blitzer for five minutes, you really don't expect him to know much of anything. Actually, the only CNN headliners with real heft are Amanpour and Zakaria--especially Zakaria, whose Sunday show always feel like the ideal seminar at the Kennedy School. #media
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    11/11/09

    In reply to No, That Is Not Anthrax
    America runs on fear. #anthrax
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