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John McWhorter Explained
An excellent analysis of bizarre racial thinker and hip hop hating intellectual John McWhorter traces his evolution from academia into neocon hackdom, and concludes, "We have admittedly now left the frame of legitimate criticism, but there is a sense in which McWhorter has never recovered from the shame and trauma of having been beaten up by a girl when he was four." [ebogjonson]
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We Are All Part Of The Problem
Do you really want to know what Spencer and Heidi were wearing in Midtown today? Our stalker has the deets.
laziness
Where Does Page Six Get Its Sterling Prose?
Here's the lead to Page Six's item today about Dr. Pepper's Guns N' Roses PR stunt: "TIRED of a world in which Americans idolize wannabe singers, and where musicals about high school students pass as rock 'n' roll, Dr Pepper is begging Axl Rose to finally release this year his 17-years-in-the-making album, "Chinese Democracy." Such powerful language! Now here's the lead to the press release announcing the same event: More »
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You Are Invited To Karaoke With Flacks
In what could accurately be described as a gross perversion of natural law, a PR firm is attempting to hold a cutesy karaoke mixer party entitled "Flacks, Hacks, and Friends." This phrase makes no sense. Hacks are certainly not friends with flacks, on general principle. Most hacks aren't popular or social enough to have friends at all, so I don't know what the extra "and Friends" is for. Also: karaoke, really? Red Branch PR wants to "put aside all the ruckus for an evening of harmony, or lack thereof." So feel free to go and start a bar fight. Full invitation—for YOU—below. More »
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Dating Columnist Takes Brave Stand Against Tabloid Era!
Julia Allison, the editor at large for a magazine called Star, has issued a bold treatise in support of the work of Rachel Sklar, the Huffington Post media critic. "Rachel calls out the media on their hypocrisy in a FAIR way, which, it might be noted, is a quality many journalists today sadly lack," Allison writes. "They seem to think that in order to be critical, they have to be bitchy/snarky/cruel or—on the other extreme—they don't analyze critically at all, instead choosing to come down predictably (lazily!) with a hackneyed throw-away blurb and maybe an ad-hom attack, just to spice things up. It's nice to see a writer really THINKING about the issues about which she writes. You can tell she's a lawyer by training."
Like those hard candies for diabetics on your grandmother's coffee table, you know you really shouldn't go near Cindy Adam's Post columns. They're confusing and a little sad and a little dusty. In today's paper, Dowager Adams gives herself over to the charms of taxicabs. "New York runs on a little dash of chutzpah and a large fleet of yellow cabs. Our loudest language is unspoken—passengers raising their hands at cabbies; cabbies raising their middle fingers at passengers... Check N.Y.C.'s symbols. The Statue of Liberty and the yellow cab. And why's Miss Liberty's hand raised? She's hailing a taxi." Now give Grandma Cindy a kiss on the cheek, bubele. Do it! [NYP]
