"color" archive
Tuesday 1 February
- Time-to-time correctness - Jack Shafer remembers that "even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day." [The quote is immortalized when sampled [from some British something-or-other I can't identify] at the end of the track Planet of the Spheres on Orbital's... Posted in color
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Tuesday 25 January
- Party Pooper - One Fed chairman apparently said his job was to "take away the punch bowl just when the party gets going." Damn dismal science. Also, it seems that Paul Krugman is a card-carring Lakoffnik. [He says Alan Greenspan is a "stern... Posted in color
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Monday 30 August
- The city doth not protest too much - thinkness went to the big protest in NYC yesterday. Nothing particularly eventful or exciting, mostly just hundreds of thousands of people lumbering down 7th Avenue on a hot day. Someone did set a dragon on fire [4th picture, which blocked... Posted in color
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- From the sad but true department - "It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth." [Sigh.]... Posted in color
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Tuesday 17 August
- A life in [less than] a day - You know what's interesting? The average life takes about 17 hours to tell. Every life story I've ever collected has ended up taking up almost the exact amount of tape. It's odd, when you think about it, that in... Posted in color
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Thursday 12 August
- One 'thing' for each hand - There are Two Things you need to know about every field. The Two Things about economics: 1 Incentives matter. 2 There’s no such thing as a free lunch. The Two Things about Law: 1 You are responsible for the foreseeable... Posted in color
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Wednesday 11 August
- The axis of limitation - This recent column of Christopher Hitchens brought up another phenomenon that thinkness first witnessed in Bill Clinton's speech at the Democratic convention. Hitch says that the security apparatus of this country are getting slammed for being careful, and for not... Posted in color
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Monday 31 May
- atlantic humor - "Mark Twain once said that comedy is British, wit is French and humor is American." I probably shouldn't be so charmed by pat generalizations like this. But I am. Still don't know how Jerry Lewis fits into this.... Posted in color
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Tuesday 4 May
- Politics in a nutshell - Daniel Patrick Moynihan achieved thinkness' favorite combination of insight and smooth verbiage when he said, "The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics... Posted in color
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Monday 12 April
- The proof has left the pudding - Apparently, my favorite saying is wrong. "The proof is in the pudding" is supposed to be, "the proof of the pudding is in the eating." According to some guy named John Powers, anyway. And I have been misusing the word... Posted in color
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Monday 22 March
- Color -- Dynastic memories - Talking Points Memo says -- referring to the Bush admin's idiotic clutching to old, Cold War-era threats -- "As Talleyrand said of the restored Bourbons, they had learned nothing and forgotten nothing during their time in exile." Well said, especially... Posted in color
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Thursday 5 February
- Cutter Kennedy - Last year a whole fracas emerged surrounding ads using John Kennedy's likeness to sell Bush's income-tax cut. Kennedy, Bush said, was a tax cutter, and his tax cuts helped the economy. Ted Kennedy, John's younger brother, got pissed. ['Don't you... Posted in color
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Tuesday 30 December
- Color - President Cool - 'Man, though less than some male mammals, exhibits the "Coolidge effect": a new female refreshes his libido. The effect is named after the famous story about President Calvin Coolidge and his wife beig shown around a farm. Learning that a... Posted in color
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- Color - capitalist kingpin - 'Humphrey began an essay on the topic with the story of how Henry Ford once asked his representatives to find out which parts of the Model-T never went wrong. They came back with the answer that the kingpin had never... Posted in color
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Sunday 28 December
- Color -- proof negative - Ridley uses three different metaphors to convey the idea of observation that falls short of proof. None of them are individually good enough to earn their way to thinkness' esteemed Chronic section, but in toto they squeak by: 'A man... Posted in color
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Monday 22 December
- Color - Flying abhors a vacuum - I really like this line from Kant, as quoted in a book by Robert Fogelin, as quoted in a story by Edward Rothstein: '[A dove] cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its... Posted in color
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Monday 17 November
- Color -- Rules of the dance - Another good example from this weekend, in regard to politicians' relationships with their campaign contributors: 'You gotta dance with them what brung you.' Sad but true.... Posted in color
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- Color -- Looking down the barrel of the press - At a long meeting this weekend, someone, referring to taking on the media, said, 'Don't get into an argument with the guy who buys ink by the barrel.' Great saying, but we were talking about this in close proximity to... Posted in color
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Monday 10 November
- Color -- homosexual dilettantism - According to this article on how society has viewed homosexuality, Voltaire once experimented with homosexual sex, just to see what it was like. When his devoted-homosexual partner entreated him to repeat the experiment -- surely for the sake of science... Posted in color
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Wednesday 8 October
- Searching for that perfect pear - My mom, in an email consoling me about the unfathomable world of romance, says she recently saw a plate that said, in Italian, 'When the time is right, the pear falls from the tree.'... Posted in color
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Monday 22 September
- Clashing color - Disclaimer: I don't usually comb the fashion section of the NYTimes looking for quasi-celebrity wedding announcements. But today I found word that Jonathan Frankel, who apparently is some teevee personality, is marrying a '9/11 widow'. For a guy who makes... Posted in color
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Wednesday 30 July
- Color -- words from the good doctor - How could I blog for this long without having any Freud here? In a quite interesting LA Mag story on Mickey Kaus, RJ Smith cites a quote from psychoanalysis' dad: "the narcissism of small differences", which, he says, Democrats and... Posted in color
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Tuesday 29 July
- Color -- life during peacetime - A Slate article discussing the movie Buffalo Soldiers, which is getting jerked around because it's anti-military or whatever, cites a Nietzche quote: "Where there is peace the warlike man attacks himself."... Posted in color
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Thursday 24 July
- Color - someone's baking bodies - or Another take on the dope on humans Good quote in David Rakoff's interview of Matt Ridley, author of Nature Via Nurture, in the May/June issue of Seed: Q: What do you mean when you write that the genome is... Posted in color
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Wednesday 9 July
- Color -- calm strength - I'm glad I came across a particular reason to link to this City Pages article from a [former?] friend of Christopher Hitchens' lamenting and wondering what has happened to him to make him such a bitter crank. Good story. I... Posted in color
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Monday 23 June
- Color abounds - There's so much color in this Safire column about the Davis recall effort I don't know where to start. Yes I do: Yesterday my brother said that people would start saying that if the cali gubernatorial recall effort succeeds and... Posted in color
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Tuesday 3 June
- Color -- ain't that the truth - Finally I'm getting a Texan into my color chronic section: 'Error runs around the world before the truth can get its boots on.' I should probably just troll Ivins and Hightower columns to get color bits. Or I could just... Posted in color
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- Color -- processed programming - FCC Commish Jonathan Adelstein on the new, more permissive ownership rules: 'If this is the toaster with pictures, soon only Wonder Bread will pop out.' By the way, if you read the comments from the five commissioners [available at FCC... Posted in color
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Monday 2 June
- Communitarians unite! - Didn't take long before I came across another textbook example of conservatives and liberals unified by their communitarian leanings. Steven Pinker writes in the Globe ideas section: 'In his book ''Our Posthuman Future'' (just released in paperback), the conservative thinker... Posted in color
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Friday 30 May
- Colour -- which Brit's which? - Oh, this is the best thing I've seen in hours. An English thinktank guy, talking about how British intelligence came out with all these reports that Iraq had oh-so-many tonnes of WMD: "The British public would like to believe that... Posted in color
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Monday 26 May
- Color -- what's close? - Adam Clymer [the famous 'major-league asshole' from the 2000 presidential campaign] today wrote the second part of his Democrats-are-up-shit-creek-wif-no-paddle. And in one swift stroke explained the sourcing for one of my brother's favorite phrases: 'As George C. Wallace once said,... Posted in color
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Tuesday 8 April
- color -- know your phalluses - color -- know your phalluses Here is a dope comic Eric sent me [this is the second section out of four]. Here's the color: "Some women just haven't gotten used to having a pet Talib around the camp. They've been... Posted in color
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Thursday 3 April
- color -- the sammich - color -- the sammich General Tony McPeak getting interviewed by the Oregonian: Oregonian: "There is an argument here, which is that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, chemical, biological and nuclear know-how . . . that the Iraqi government could... Posted in color
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- Color -- The Sandbox - I'm introducing another chronic entry to thinkness. This one's called 'color'. It's just a collection of colorful analogies and metaphors related to news and ideas and anything that interests me. Here's the first: color -- the sandbox My father sent... Posted in color
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